What’s something you’ve done in the past month that, you believe, has an impact on humanity’s evolution? Or, at the very least, your personal evolution in your human experience?
We’ve innovated and developed so many technologies to help improve our quality of living. Think of the machinery and AI that goes into putting food on our tables. From local farms to processing areas to grocery stores, we are incredibly lucky to be living in such comfortable times.
But what if we could still take things a step further? Imagine a future where you can bypass grocery stores and farms because you’ve got your food growing on your very own kitchen counter.
The reality is that we spend a lot of time in transit to other activities. For example, our daily commutes to and from work. Our “quick trips” to the local supermarket. These activities disrupt our regular flow. And while it’s true that some of us may find these activities enjoyable, it feels more like we’re adapting to the mediocrity of what is instead of fighting for what can be.
We can spend more time finding enjoyment in connecting with nature, the way we were meant to do so. Hiking, going to the park, taking your dogs on a walk. Spending time with our families. These are the evolutive and cultural things that need to occur for you to increase your self-awareness.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to take some pretty ingenious measures so we could ensure the survival of our loved ones and our communities. For example, businesses started allowing work from home setups. In some places around the world, grocery vans patrol the area and allow people to buy without leaving their homes.
This sudden change in our daily flow may not have been the best introduction to a more introspective life. But it’s a glimpse to a world where we are capable of being more self-sufficient. Where opportunities come knocking at our door, instead of the other way around.
Someday, the internet will become a place where we can fully live in, with our five senses. We can create avatars of ourselves and “travel” to meetings with teammates from around the world. We would also be living under a digital economy, where users can create, buy, and sell goods.
It’s difficult to pin down the full scope of what the metaverse is, because how accurately can we paint a picture of a world that’s yet to come? What we can tell you is that if we play our cards right today, the research and development in these technologies should create a world where humanity is at the center of its evolution.
Where we have the opportunity to truly transcend, to live out the authentic human experience.
Technology gives us the capacity to remove redundancies that do not contribute to our evolution. All those routine activities that you used to have to do, just to survive? Let them be managed automatically by machine learning and AI. That way, we can focus on the things that make us human.
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We’ve innovated and developed so many technologies to help improve our quality of living. Think of the machinery and AI that goes into putting food on our tables. From local farms to processing areas to grocery stores, we are incredibly lucky to be living in such comfortable times.
Alexander McCaig (00:06):
Jason, you and I were just having a side conversation and we had to make an episode about it. There's no evolutive point for us to go to a grocery store. There is nothing evolutive for society about sitting in a car in traffic to go to a physical office. There are some things that just are not right for a human being and it wastes the life form's probability to do other things that are more beneficial.
Jason Rigby (00:36):
Well, I mean, take example, why not bypass the farm, bypass the grocery store? Why would you not have food being grown on your counter?
Alexander McCaig (00:49):
We should all have our own micro farming thing.
Jason Rigby (00:51):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (00:52):
You can do this stuff in your house. We have multi spectrum bulbs. We have algae blooms, good ones, spiralina, things of the sort, you can grow in your house, give you all your trace minerals, nutrients, everything like that.
Jason Rigby (01:05):
And if every household had one of those and everybody had six canisters and they were just drinking those and like I was telling you before, maybe they put in it to where it solves the sugar craving or whatever.
Alexander McCaig (01:17):
Sure.
Jason Rigby (01:18):
There's so much scientific abilities with that.
Alexander McCaig (01:21):
And we'll be printing our own food inside the house.
Jason Rigby (01:23):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (01:24):
All those things are great. The point is you shouldn't have to go to work.
Jason Rigby (01:29):
No.
Alexander McCaig (01:31):
Work should be where you are. You shouldn't have to meet work where it is. It should meet you where you are. We don't need to have traffic. People should spend their breaks going outside. Hiking, go to the park, take the dog out. Focus on your family. These are evolutive, cultural things that need to occur. Increase your own understanding of yourself.
Jason Rigby (01:50):
Well, [inaudible 00:01:51] in and of itself, no one goes to work. But here's the thing. We don't have to wait until 2033 or 2040 to be at zero emissions.
Alexander McCaig (01:58):
No, we can do it right now.
Jason Rigby (01:59):
We can do it right now.
Alexander McCaig (02:00):
Yes. There are some factories, but factories are inherently becoming more automated.
Jason Rigby (02:04):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (02:05):
The need for human interaction doesn't have to be there. That just means our skill sets, what we should do, should go towards more creative processes. And we can do all these things. There is no good reason to go to a grocery store, let them deliver it to you.
Jason Rigby (02:19):
And then that building becomes what? It becomes a small warehouse where it's holding product. Robots are working in there.
Alexander McCaig (02:24):
Or a lot of these places can be removed altogether.
Jason Rigby (02:27):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (02:28):
Remove them. Open up that space, make it more natural.
Jason Rigby (02:33):
You're already seeing that. And we had an episode on this in Singapore or something where there's no physical restaurant locations. They're just kitchen sharing and there it's all Uber eats. They call it Food Pan or something like that. And there's five restaurants in a circle and then there's one kitchen in the center And they each take opportunities in that kitchen. They each have hours set where they use that kitchen. I think California's doing this too. And it's just a restaurant that only exists online.
Alexander McCaig (03:00):
That's what Guy Fieri does. He knows that it works. I know it's all well and good to do, "I got to go out and shop." No, that's really not evolutive for you. Your escape should not be going to store to get inundated with more ads just on food product now. Let someone else, one party ...
Alexander McCaig (03:19):
What's the whole point of public transportation? A bunch of people taking one unit to move themselves. Same thing should happen for groceries. A bunch of groceries taking one unit to transport themselves. We shouldn't have thousands of cars going into a parking lot to pick these things up. We shouldn't have thousands of people going into an office building to do work that it's otherwise almost 90% digital anyway.
Jason Rigby (03:41):
Or you just see the traffic at 8:30 in the morning. In LA, it's 24/7 there, almost. But it's like, why?
Alexander McCaig (03:49):
There's no need for it.
Jason Rigby (03:50):
Why are people running around?
Alexander McCaig (03:51):
It does not benefit us in the long run. People are like, "Oh, it's good to get out of the house to escape." No, no, no. Get out of your house to go do things that are really beneficial for you. Don't get out to-
Jason Rigby (04:02):
Walk your dog. Go on a hike.
Alexander McCaig (04:04):
Don't distract yourself with these other things.
Jason Rigby (04:05):
Get out with nature.
Alexander McCaig (04:06):
Technology will afford us the ability to remove those things that are redundancies that aren't truly evolutive for us. Let those things be managed automatically by those processes. And let's focus on the things that make us human. That's what's really going to help us. Does that make sense?
Jason Rigby (04:21):
That makes perfect sense. So, I want to get specific because everybody's talking, Mark Zuckerberg came up with this video on the metaverse with Facebook and all that. So, I want to end the podcast, but I want to talk about this. And we talked about this offline. In the '80s, besides Stanford, no one knew about the internet. Now it's the leading commerce. I mean, Amazon-
Alexander McCaig (04:45):
Yeah. It was Stanford, UC Berkeley, and DARPA.
Jason Rigby (04:47):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (04:47):
But only three people.
Jason Rigby (04:50):
Everybody's scoffed at the internet. "It's just going to be emails. It's just going to be this." Then it got built. Social media got built on it. Advertising got built on it. Everything. So now most of your commerce is done online.
Alexander McCaig (05:00):
Correct.
Jason Rigby (05:01):
And the internet is number one thing. We have Netflix through the internet. We have social media through the internet.
Alexander McCaig (05:06):
You don't go to the movies.
Jason Rigby (05:07):
No.
Alexander McCaig (05:07):
You do it at the internet at your house where you're comfortable.
Jason Rigby (05:10):
Yeah. Dune was released straight up on HBO Max.
Alexander McCaig (05:13):
I know you didn't like it. I loved it, but that's okay.
Jason Rigby (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, no, I like the artistic design of it. I thought it was ... It was just a little slow, but the space craft were amazing. Costumes were amazing, all that.
Jason Rigby (05:26):
But the thing that people don't understand is these experiences are going to get better. That's what Facebook's working on and that's what he sees. He's like, "This is a 10, 15 year play." But the user experience, as we get to internet 3.0 and 4.0 and all that, we're going to layer the technology that we have now and it's scaling so fast. You're going to put on VR goggles or have the Elon Musk link in your head or whatever.
Alexander McCaig (05:55):
Or I'm going to have a huge curved piece of glass that gives me a projection of a room and it's already putting my coworker on that piece of glass. I don't actually have to be over there. But there's an interaction because it's actually taking away the scene of my wall in my house, whatever I ID, and putting me into this room that I can virtually be in.
Jason Rigby (06:13):
And that's what the metaverse is about and that's what we were talking about with Tartle is there can be a ... I'm marketing, so there could be a marketing room where we're all sitting around in front of a whiteboard. Doesn't have to be a physical location.
Alexander McCaig (06:22):
No, it's nonsense.
Jason Rigby (06:24):
We have our avatars or whatever and we're talking, communicating, having a meeting just as if we were there.
Alexander McCaig (06:29):
Or yourself with the video cameras capturing you and 3D projecting it onto the screen.
Jason Rigby (06:35):
You ready?
Alexander McCaig (06:35):
Yeah, I'm good.
Jason Rigby (06:36):
Let's just throw this out real quick. What's the difference? And people are like, "Well, that's not real." It's reality. Your ego-
Alexander McCaig (06:42):
Your ego tells you it isn't.
Jason Rigby (06:44):
Your ego tells you this is all real and it's really not.
Alexander McCaig (06:46):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (06:46):
Philosophies figured that out a long time ago. So, whether you're in a metaverse-
Alexander McCaig (06:51):
Or you're here.
Jason Rigby (06:52):
Or you're here, it doesn't matter.
Alexander McCaig (06:53):
Both.
Jason Rigby (06:53):
It's all both realities.
Alexander McCaig (06:54):
Both things are an illusion.
Jason Rigby (06:56):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (06:56):
Which therefore makes both of them just as real and all of human society is based off of one thing, one thing only. And that's thought.
Jason Rigby (07:04):
Mm, yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:04):
Human thought is the only thing that drives everything.
Jason Rigby (07:06):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:08):
Can't fight me on it. You keep baking down that logic. Go deeper and deeper and deeper. It's thought. It's what it goes down to.
Jason Rigby (07:15):
You do all the turtles.
Alexander McCaig (07:16):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (07:16):
It's thought.
Alexander McCaig (07:16):
It's just thought. So, if we're looking at helping things out, decreasing the amount of carbon footprint we all have, doing all this. There's no reason for us to be doing shit that does not really benefit us evolutionally.
Jason Rigby (07:32):
But there's one thing, to close, there's one thing that you can do right now that helps the environment. The seven biggest issues that we have that's facing the planet right now can be solved and you can do that and it doesn't take long. You go to, how?
Alexander McCaig (07:46):
You go to Tartle.co and you do work in this metaverse, this digital farm field of your data, and you are going to tend to your data crop and you're going to harvest it. And when you share that, when bring your data to the marketplace and someone pays you, you can put those earnings back towards these major causes that need help. That need time, attention, and resources to solve right now for the betterment of humanity going forward.
Jason Rigby (08:10):
Yeah. You can actually donate your earnings from the data packets that you did, you can donate those to not for profits or NGOs, and you can pick and choose.
Alexander McCaig (08:19):
Your choice.
Jason Rigby (08:20):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (08:20):
We're not going to make the decision.
Jason Rigby (08:21):
No.
Alexander McCaig (08:22):
Which is best for you? What do you align with?
Jason Rigby (08:24):
Do you want help dolphins in the Atlantic ocean? Go for it.
Alexander McCaig (08:27):
Help the ... I can't even do a dolphin noise. Yeah.
Jason Rigby (08:30):
Yeah. Something like that. But you want to have educational access so that people in third world countries can learn? Because that's the number one thing.
Alexander McCaig (08:40):
Open up their opportunity. If you want government and corporate transparency, there's plenty of nonprofits out there that would love some help. Yeah.
Jason Rigby (08:48):
What's the one you like that you always wear the hat with? For data privacy.
Alexander McCaig (08:51):
EFF. Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Jason Rigby (08:52):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (08:53):
Donate to them.
Jason Rigby (08:54):
Perfect.
Alexander McCaig (08:54):
Why not? Yeah. So, this is the point here. We just see that some things are really no longer required. People are like, "Oh, it's just what we do." No, it's not. It's a distraction from what is really valuable for a human. And what we'll go find is that this metaverse is where the work will occur and where we find the real efficiencies in our evolution.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Thank you for listening to Tartle Cast with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future and source data defines the path. What's your data worth?
