From Scarcity to Swarms
For the past few months, I’ve been exploring Abundance Mindset—both in my own life and in my mindfulness gatherings. We’ve been working with the inner hindrances that keep us from fully embracing abundance. But this week, I’ve also been thinking about how outer forces—especially technology—is rapidly shifting that paradigm altogether.
One of the boldest voices on this front is Peter Diamandis. In his Metatrends newsletter, he recently proclaimed:
According to Peter, by 2035—just ten years from now—we may all have access to personalized swarms of AI agents: managing our health, learning, creativity, and more. AI could be running millions of experiments a day. Every child might have an AGI tutor offering one-on-one adaptive instruction in any language.
Wow.!
The scarcity of time and resources may soon be eclipsed by unlimited possibility. Assuming,of course, that we channel this power wisely—toward the flourishing of people, planet, and purpose.
That brings me to a question I’ve been sitting with: In our increasingly multigenerational world, how might the next generation help us steward this powerful technology?
I caught a hopeful glimpse just this morning while chatting with my favorite 10-year-old. She had been helping her mom serve customers at their local coffee shop and said she’d taken notes on each interaction. Curious, I asked what kind of notes she meant. I expected the usual: orders, timing, maybe prep time.
But no—her notes captured mood, conversation, vibe… whether people opened up or held back. The human stuff.
It struck me that maybe she already knows, intuitively, that the quantifiable data can be handled by tech. What matters—the part that can’t be so automatically discerned—is the interesting and idiosyncratic ways people show up during human interactions.
She’s just one data point. But perhaps this generation intuitively knows what to let tech handle and what we humans are best suited for. Which means that the positive use of GenAI could be in good hands with Gen Alpha.
Here’s to your noticing where abundance already lives in your life…and to a future shaped by connection, not just computation!
