SUBJECT: So the smartphone revolution,
the revolution in connectivity, has
created an on-demand economy.
As Kevin Kelly says, access is now
more important than ownership, the idea
that goods and services are just a rub on a magic mirror
away from being fulfilled.
This notion of extending our will, magic,
as Aleister Crowley described it, as willed intent.
I summon, and it appears.
As I imagine, so it becomes.
And this is the very essence of magic, which is a great line.
And this is the world that we're living in now.
Services like Uber, services like Airbnb,
that will literally summon the ability to go stay somewhere
and the means to get there at the speed of thought,
almost, are scaling to the point that we
are seeing a transformation in our phenomenological
experience.
We are creating a technologically-mediated flow
where most of the world becomes an extension of our agency.
I mean, even the fact that Uber can sync with your Spotify
playlist, so that when you summon the car
to take you to the place that you want to go,
the car arrives and the music that you've previously
soundscaped is already playing in the car,
giving you the serendipitous experience of moving
into spaces where all of a sudden, everything's amazing.
This is the song I like.
This is the place I want to go.
Oh, let's go somewhere.
Oh, here's the car picking me up.
Oh my god, I want to go stay at this beautiful mountain town.
Oh my god, here's the apartment waiting for me.
Just an Airbnb again.
I mean, this on-demand economy is transforming subjectivity.
When we surrender into it, when we surrender
into the space and the speed of the feedback
loops between our creative choices
and what is able to be summoned through our technological
extensions, our technological scaffoldings,
we actually step into a new space of consciousness.
We step into a new way of perceiving reality.
The whole thing becomes mental architecture.
We cognitize the world.
That's the AI revolution.
That is the on-demand economy.
We extend our cognition, our mental neuroarchitecture,
out into the world.
It all becomes dream space.
It all becomes elusive dream.
It all becomes an inception that we can control.
That's what's promised by the on-demand economy.
I find it very exciting.
Very exciting.
[MUSIC PLAYING]