folks, really, its time to speak out:
we all started endurance sports when we had been young, kids and juveniles, for fun and for prestige, or honor and even later it had been the same motives. no need to deepen the why of sport. it can by done by everyone, first, and secondly isn't hooked to money.
Unluckily, that affection of immaterial visions and values did not became an transglobal attitude or mission statement. in the Ninetiees of the last millenium we had been optimist to find new ways, explore space, establish global peace and solve the big, big, problems of hunamkind likewise the control of financial markets, and the internet and even stop climate change. we did not - it all came different. whereas hunger and scarce of drinking-water broke again out as catastrophee that had been seemed to have be overcomed by that third economy and process in all kind of technologies? In February, 15 Millions in the Iranian Capital (Teheran) had no drinking water. This year 2026. Unbelivable? But true. Additional conflicts, crisis and even new wars raise and one might say: having learned nothing? Humanism reduced to middle-age thinking? Thrown back to the middle-ages reestablishes that two categories, masters and servants? Lets say poor and rich? Has humankind failed? In affairs of the development of the next stage, that is the scientific age?
Meanwhile words are adopted to the new threats, it is mere trash, tons of date, just exhaust. That circles like an apachee around the old one: hunger! But for oil, gas, uranium, gold or even lithium. A hunger that wasn't tamed. By the genius' of our times the eighties and nineties when internet and ai - cyberspace - had become a reality? And the genius' of the next generation programming computers? That all adds the hunger for bits, bytes, software-updates, new versions of ai, faster connections etc. pp.
The flaw is like always: the interchange of might and intelligence?
you cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surf - in the internet
In former times my argument face-to-face with those businessmen had been of them they cannot buy an atom-bomb. Just to make them becoming aware of immaterial values. Likewise bio-diversity or sunshine or other free thing that do exist like the air we breath.
Situation become worse friends - capitalism made its next revolution. Mathematically spoken it destroys itself till the year of 2050 by a global growth rate of 2,5%. It needs. 2,5% growth. In order to exist. Capitalism. That was in the Ninetees an open secret among critical thinkers and even today. But even 25 later Germany' s minister of economics literally said in 2015 like that: "There is no alternative to capitalism, yes, it has flaws, but it works." - Peter Altmeier -
So what? America becomes conditions like Russia, and Europe is split, too, into the rich and into the poor. So here in Germany, those who are young, e.g. 25yrs of age or generation of Z, well, they'll be the first in modern times who do not have properties. Intellectuals and professors called it neofeudalism. All fine. But once again that does not treat the real, the really big, big problems, does it?
Well, we had that big threat of ABC-weapons, since 1945 and solved that anyhow as of the balance of powers is still working, even nowadays. Well, those powers generated new add weapons, not of mass but of math destruction. It are the algorithms that do decide. Humans in ciphers. And that does not stop at borders. Because of the internet, that was supposed to bring the solution. When industrialization (heavy industry and mass production) was said to kill climate - in Europe we had a plus of 2,6° in 2023 and on Earth aims in affairs to border climate change (Kyoto, Paris) had been a failure with plus 1,5°C in 2025 measured globally / so actually we have 2046 already in terms of climate and that is too late to make it stop, is it? - now we have age of AI, a new additional industry, that does exploit humankind, while industrialization does exploit nature. So we don' t know how to border industry 3.0, industry, globalization and pluralism? No. However, that is needed in deed for the huge machine to maintain (factories, shipping, the railway, cars, aeronautics, housing, farming, medicine) but now also in order needed for the production of further stuff and software added on! We have failed to temper industry 3.0, but we do not car about industry 4.0 at all, do we? Likewise satellites, transmission towers, laptops, tablets, a new generation of smart-phone every year like drones on the military sector every week that is fruit of a huge bureaucracy, common people. Even kids are within that stock, the need that little dopamine coming from the web.
While heavy industry does ruin environment, AI and the internet does ruin our all minds? Unfortunatelly "saviour internet" became an angel of death: mass hypnosis, breakdown of human intelligence substituted by AI, a huge outbreak of mental diseases like depression, social phobia, borderline among juveniles and apathy, ignorance, helplessness, grief and greed among adults is just the beginning. The summary would be longer. Everyone knows what is meant. Social dysruption. Because everyone is connected to everyone. And by this live in the hive. Do you think the hive does make times of wealth come back? Or what is it? It automates us?
Now there comes the good news: AI does - there is no other way. Unfortunatelly. Because it all becomes more worse. Scientific data speak out for them alone. That is why science is not a domain on the global stage anymore. The world is running out of zinc in 2027. There are no ground to dig for left. Lithium to make fully fit the car-markets is need 40 times the amount of 2024. And what comes from chairmen of those big industries, like German car manufactorers? Oil we be enough for 500 yrs. Or like I said when lecturing ten years ago: the generation World War II after lived in the age of oil. Wealth came from that energy. We did not solve that problem. We have failed to limit growth. Now we live in the age of oil and ai. Now there come another good news: we all have a seat in the first row.
Those, who can afford the luxury of a habitat, and therefore privacy, of course, are not that much better. Do you remember of time a day online was pronounced limited to 1,5 hrs each person, globally, on average, to be neutral in affairs of climate change? Here in Germany it are 13 hrs a day in the age-group 18-28 and 11 hrs a day the age group of 29-39 yrs. Have a guess what old people do? Internet? Talking to AI? Limited to 1,5 hrs daily? This is the majority. A man the middle-age did consume information a life time a man nowadays consumes one single day. AI can do - humans not so.
Tzunami ahead! That shatters down against a monolithical, unified self.
Only few postulate unified self. Likewise zero-growth in economics in the last decade was postulated by few only. Why? According to research within the modern social sciences social roles do exist only.
May be surfing would the therapy? To moment one loses oneself and finds himself oneself again Well, the most evil thing is of people became split. They reinforce themselves (group pressure) in their madness' in order to not to be alone, therefore alone together. Birds of the same flock fly together. Using swarm intelligence that is controlled by remote? And you does remote? What do you think that business companies take in turn? For having connected the world? For the free usage of communication across oceans even (wapp, telegram, tic toc e.g.)? What might be the quid pro quo, the consideration? A satellite isn't a cost likewise a transmission tower isn't? Hm. For nothing? Free to use? Is the price the expropriation of personal data? From where the huge money is made? Now, as of age of internet and ai, the iron wedge is deeply in. Or like a famous comedian said: the lights are on, but there is no one at home. To describe the consequences, that are the absence of reason and the presence of schizophrenia the same time. Peeple got mad! And think AI will solve that problems? It will. Sure. But not for all humankind. An academic might call it mental defiancy, sure. By the way: do you know who turned those mental defiancies or nonsenses' into mass psychosis?
Well, in the beginning it was idealism - and from that time this blog stems - where the pioneers of the internet tried to make the world a better place. Share thougnts, stories and ideas. Now, the machine eats it all. And there is a 3rd good news: do not become like them. Machinelike. Even if the price is solitude. Like a solitary bird flies to the highest point and is singing its song: let's go back to the roots of our sport, from where the idealism came from. You can! Say no. It is hard. To stay out of the hive. The need to quantify and analyze data everywhere. It are the new gold mines and diamond fields of today. Measure time, speed, efficiency, by satellite watch, the new fenix (model 8) is 1599,- S only, by smart-phone, personal-computer, social media, ai and all of that. In order to show of likewise posing porn and triathlon was 15-20 years ago. They need it all, self-optimization likewise triathletes had been pioneers to do so in order to do the impossible. Well, the company of IRONMAN did a good thing in California after it was sold by Wanda? Cycling 180k, yes, but needing a Tesla SUV the same time? For bicycle transport? In order to drive to the supermarket for some few goods? Sure, by this you can save time you can invest in your training... - see? That models run on a huge scale and automate us. Logic, statistics, psychology, mathematics. That is the method. By the smart-phone released in 2008 the huge machine got its sensors. Thus, there is almost no one around left around. Because we are all alike. It does not matter anymore if you are a banker, a lawyer, a doctor, a lorry-driver or a nurse, manager, journalist or a politican even. In the eyes of the machine we are numbers, who do inhabit the hive. Remote is the answer.
Well, I am tired of it all add growth by the new tools that automate and exploit people. May be 1-2% of energy are saved by this called effciency and sustainability. And on the other scales: 30% more energy is needed for add power. Good equation? Zinc is running out next year. You can check this. Those before us have build the machine. It is ready (Germans they invented the computer. Otto Hahn made the Uranium-Atom (235) split for the first time in 1938 and it had been a German who invented the rocket-engine). Our generation made the software. Internet was a surprise, fun, and a chance, but became another add nightmare alive? May be one day the AI turns against its leaders. Or against us all. Or much more real: it makes people split - within and between. Only few. Nothing left to do here.
Anyway, it are us all who decide. In order to adapt Wernher von Brauns words: it are humans who decide of what kind of usage any tool is.
Or likewise said in 1994, when we left high-school: Nach uns die Sintflut!
Cheers,
Mike.
