Take A Chill Pill

While we work to ensure that a representative government can provide support for the people of Egypt (what's the point of being free to speak/assemble if you and your family starve?), I try to keep this narrative going.

Looking across a multibillion lightyear matrix to assess possible futures, I sometimes forget that anyone reading this is more concerned about what's going to happen today or tomorrow to immediate friends and family.

I also forget that you don't know which blog entries are purely fictional and which are statements/predictions about facts.

Remember, this blog serves as the billboard for announcements/adverts in a fictional universe that closely parallels ours.

As the Committee's Storyteller-In-Residence (and rotating team leader/member), I have the responsibility to both entertain and inform.

There is no demographically defined target audience. Every person in our seven-billion strong species is available for characterisation.

One blog entry may reflect the opinion of an old man who feels the world has left him behind.

One blog entry may be about an Indian family running a hotel franchise, or a man in the military traveling out-of-town, weary but alert and leary of strangers.

As temporary Committee leader, I move from place to place to MBWA (manage by walking around).

You are the input to the system. Your actions, your social connections and your life story (the narrative that appears through hindsight) give me insight into how the future is going to work out to our species' benefit.

How you choose to behave is yours to choose for yourself and your family.

I had planned a series of blog entries showing you how we break down social connections into basic building blocks that we have programmed for every type of social situation.

However, a behaviourist pointed out that we had not accurately programmed the chemical and quantum exchanges.

So, the series will have to wait.

Which means I have to talk to you about something you probably already know.

In other words, you can skip this next part.

Education.

Do you think if you can read this that you are educated?

As a specialist who holds peer-selected awards for excellence in your field of study, would you submit yourself to being placed in a maze where gaining exit before you starved or suffocated required absolute knowledge of your specialty?

Of course, your life is that maze.

Do one thing at a time and do it well.

That's what this blog is about, educating me, teaching me that knowing and telling the future is much more serious than I bargained for.

I just wanted to help my friends and family improve the return on their investments.

How was I to know that no genie goes back into a bottle?

Maybe I need to go to Central America and find that old lady's family again, ask them if they have any family lore that would ease my worries that the future is uncertain and not as predictably true as my predictions have shown with increasing accuracy.

Otherwise, there will come a time when we know so well what's going to happen next that we can intuitively jump forward past great leaps of innovation because we already have lived through them in our pinpoint future projections.

Don't stop loving your family and trusting strangers. We're all in this moment that leads to a bright future together.