The Five Pillars of the 21st Century

Opens March 29th 2023 with a philosophical video about the next hundred years of humanity, his first broad-ranging one in a while.

Each century has a defining technology, with the 19th century getting the telegraph, trains, and electrification, and the 20th getting aerospace, the internet, and computers.

Argues five interconnected things will define the 21st century: AI, quantum computing, synthetic biology, nanotech, and blockchain, with AI the biggest as the first synthetic cognition at global scale.

Recommends Quantum Computing for Everyone, The Age of AI by Eric Schmidt and Henry Kissinger, Drexler's Radical Abundance, and Regenesis by George Church, with whom he co-founded a company.

The five pillar technologies all either extend or regulate humanity, with AI as a second brain like ChatGPT that has internet access and self-trains recursively.

Exponential self-training means whoever gets first access wins, but AI is constrained to classical Turing and Von Neumann computing, so it could describe but not break Satoshi's keys.

Quantum computing as a new computing model with new capabilities, like the One-Shot Signatures paper with Princeton authors that lets you sign only once, impossible classically.

Quantum AI would let you query break-Satoshi's-keys and have the AI write and run the quantum code itself, since the two technologies amplify each other and AI is better at using quantum computers than humans.

Roger Penrose believes the human brain has quantum computing properties, in a complex paper.

Synthetic biology as using technology to change organisms, from de-extinction to regenerating tissue or hybridizing octopus color-changing cells into human tissue.

A related field is the human-computer interface, with a Carnegie Mellon center studying it beyond the mouse and keyboard.

Points to brain-computer interfaces like Synchron and Neuralink for think-to-text, and to storing data in DNA and human cells per George Church's Regenesis.

Calls nanotech and material science underreported but able to change any physical thing, turning any surface into a computing surface like a restaurant table showing a contextual menu when you set down an ID.

Combining AI, synthetic biology, and nanotech could cure cancer with tiny machines using your immune system, or regulate human behavior like a more effective chemical castration of pedophiles.

Introduces blockchain as the fifth pillar, contrasting today's chain of thought to paper to law to social consensus to punishment, which works poorly with 1 percent of Americans imprisoned.

Distinguishes man-made law from natural law like gravity, saying digital systems let you take socially-enforced rules and make them immutable natural law with no non-compliance possible, the superpower of blockchain.

Nanotech and synthetic biology let you digitize the physical, embedding a computing layer in your body and car that enforces rules like physics, so a restraining order physically stops you, raising free-will concerns.

Asks where the thought behind laws comes from and answers an exponentially growing AI lawmaker with unprecedented cognition needs technology like blockchain to enforce the law.

The ESG movement of Klaus Schwab is transforming every industry at a conservative 150-trillion-dollar price tag with no governance layer, which is why some call it a one-world government.

Regulating all carbon, supply chains, and hiring globally requires power to punish non-compliance, so ESG brings CBDCs combined with social credit that shut off your money like a Facebook ban.

Warns that without blockchain the trajectory is a panopticon where a quantum-enabled AI knows your compliance and a meta-government enforces it by shutting off money or restricting freedom, as seen during COVID.

Blockchain removes that by having protocols decide instead of humans, so neither China nor the US is in control, a regulating layer with teeth because the other four technologies digitize the physical.

Argues fairly designed protocols give equality by design, guaranteeing rights like privacy that no government, corporation, or agency can influence, the core conflict of the era.

Capitalism will deliver these technologies with no say from the public, and synthetic biology plus nanobio gives immortality, the biggest driver in human cognition per Ernest Becker's Denial of Death.

Warns a meta-government is being built to be a regulating layer, seen in CBDCs, social credit, transnational agreements, and the one-world COVID response, by unelected people whose values he did not choose.

The designers admire China as a governance model, which scares him, and that needing a regulating layer for the four horsemen is his primary reason for being in blockchain.

Frames two options: a pyramid one-world government where a small immortal super-smart elite live like gods and the bottom are thought-monitored slaves, or protocols as a horizontal circle where everyone is equal.

The Sam Altmans and OpenAI are pyramid people who believe only philosopher-kings should access the technology and decide what you get, versus circle people with open source and transparent governance.

Argues pyramid people think everyone else is cattle and will use the four capabilities to dominate the human race, while blockchain liberates by giving you control of your money, identity, data, voice, and privacy.

People claiming crypto has no use case are really saying they do not value sovereignty and accept elites deciding what they own, who they are, and their human rights of Association, Commerce, and Expression.

Calls blockchain the terminus of the Enlightenment, turning natural law into digital human rights, an engine to encode immutable human characteristics religions and governments cannot violate.

Warns that by 2100 the world will be inconceivable, and these technologies can impact free will and know your thoughts beyond even the Stasi or KGB, like The Last of Us cordyceps taking over minds.

Predicts the paternalistic argument to put a brain implant in Bob the pedophile will come in 5 to 20 years, as fast as two-weeks-to-slow-the-spread became papers-please.

ESG runs at 100 miles an hour as every country cannibalizes 20th-century capitalism, not all evil but because the world is running out of resources and views it as a liability.

The ESG cannibalization of 20th-century capitalism is why he is in blockchain and it is not about token prices, since being a billionaire in that world is worthless, like Jack Ma losing his 40 billion and learning poetry in Thailand to avoid being shot.

Warns that if blockchain is subjugated, the regulating layer becomes an AI watchdog smarter than everyone that never sleeps and reads your thoughts, whereas with blockchain the developing world gets equal access.

Every billionaire including himself with Hoskinson Health, plus Sam Altman with 180 million, Bezos, Gates, and Musk, invests in immortality, and that working quantum computers arrive this decade.

The blockchain industry is building global-scale tech via recursive SNARKs and consensus improvements that can be the regulating layer for a fair Enlightenment world, or the default pyramid wins.

IO already chose to be circle people with open-source, patent-royalty-free papers and research centers at Stanford, CMU, and Edinburgh, with CIP 1694 as the first foray into recursive decentralized governance.

Sees a path within 5 to 10 years to run a nation-state on Cardano with a national identity, payment system, or CBDC that has principles and protects you, with enough ecosystem resources to make it inevitable.

In 5 to 10 years tens of millions will be engaged with a treasury to wire in those use cases, and that Choke Point 2.0, the globalist, and ESG movements know this model is the only thing standing in the pyramid's way.

Uses a pill-versus-cutting-off-arms analogy to explain crypto is attacked with no-use-case reports because you cannot let the pill exist if your goal is to cut off arms, when controlling your money and restraining government is useful.

The facts are the same: the ESG movement is here and the world is rebuilding toward a one-world meta-government per Klaus Schwab's Fourth Industrial Revolution and Davos, with only the top of the pyramid unsorted.

Closes that the four horsemen are inevitable since everyone has incentive to pursue them, fire from the gods, and that with better medicine many alive today may see 2100, so the missing governance layer is why he is a circle person.