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Nicole Küffer's avatar

Very well captured observations. I‘ve always seen the trend towards analogue as the natural trend as the pendulum has swung too much into the digital world. I see people waking up to the reality that there was something lost on the way and craving to reclaim some of the authenticity.

Theo Measures's avatar

Thank you Nicole, that means a lot. I completely agree - I have used the pendulum analogy myself.

I'm optimistic that one of the unintended consequences of the AI revolution is a forcing to the surface of something that has been bobbing around and fomenting just below it since the dawn of social media.

Namely, a yearning for unmediated trust, connection and realignment with the natural order.

Cultural pendulum swings tend to be characterised by a inflection point at which we see a trend reversal, marked by a consensus that we have reached a point of absurdity. We see this in politics every few years and we have have proverbs to describe the idea that conditions often worsen immediately before improvement ('darkest before the dawn').

I think it is incredibly important that we must not allow the prospect of a dawn to be lost to the impending and inevitable darkness that I think is yet to express itself fully.