the future should look like the future
an intro to singularity and our future.
as a child, my parents only let me watch animal planet. i fell in love with it, developing a deep compassion for the biosphere and all living organisms.
when i was 9 years old (circa. 2009) i watched avatar for the first time and i started imagining...
why can’t our world look like this?
why can’t we be as connected to flora and fauna?
why can’t humanity, nature, and technology co-exist like this?
it started with avatar but i went down the deep rabbit-hole of sci-fi movies. star wars, back to the future, i-robot, interstellar, blade runner. i watched it all.
but most modern movies present a very grim reality of the future, what we call “cyberpunk”- a dystopian future where everything is controlled and monitored by technology and intelligence.
where society is divided into the high-class, living above the clouds and the low-life, killing and hacking for resources. blade runner 2049 is a good representation of this sub-culture.
"Cyberpunk is a warning, not an aspiration" - Mike Pondsmith
i think cyberpunk represents the world we don’t want to live in. the world we fear our planet will become. with the pace at which we’re building intelligence and robots, we all have the right to fear.
i’m writing singularity to look at this from an techno-optimistic lens:
what if things go right?
what if we save the planet with intelligence and robots?
what if technology/science enables humans and nature to co-exist in harmony?
there has been a stagnation in atoms and innovation in the past few decades. but at the current speed of ai development and agi (ai with human-like intelligence) around the corner, we’re going to see a hardware revolution. an era of accelerated evolution and discovery.
singularity will narrate the stories of people building towards a sustainable, safe and intelligent future.
i will be documenting in words and videos, the journey of founders building futuristic tech at the frontier of climate, defence, manufacturing, surveillance, healthcare, and more.
all documentaries will be uploaded on youtube.
