The Industrial Revolution has turned people into screws, and this process has been deeply rooted in our bones.
For example, what should a person do every day? He will definitely look at the time, and the consciousness of arranging what he does according to the time comes from the Industrial Revolution.
The train unified the timetable, and time became the standard for measuring efficiency, and efficiency was money in the era of industrial take-off, and time was money when converted.
In the agricultural age, time was never so valued, and the sunrise and the sunrise were the gentle guidance of nature, while the precision of the industrial age became a compulsion.
After Ford improved the production line, the workload of each worker was arranged to the extreme, and some people even used a stopwatch on the side to measure how many parts you make in a minute.
The value of efficiency first has entered all aspects of life, and it has also embedded people in a gap where they cannot see meaning, value, or freedom.
After more than 100 years here, we have gradually lost our inner support, and we can no longer see what we are doing and what value is in what we do.
At the same time, we have lost our freedom, and time has relegated our trivia to task after task, one goal after another.
In the end, we lost the ability to think for ourselves, and Prussian education, designed on the basis of the demands of industrial screws, required obedience rather than creativity and freedom.
More than 100 years later, the information revolution, especially the emergence of the Internet, has given us a glimmer of freedom, a glimmer of freedom to turn from a screw into a craftsman.
On the one hand, the Internet has brought information and given us a more comprehensive view.
On the other hand, the Internet era has brought more opportunities for innovation, mushrooming new enterprises continue to appear, and more and more abundant career choices continue to appear, and each of us has the freedom to choose between changing industries and changing positions.
This freedom of choice is also the foundation of many core values of vocational education, which is to find the career you love and find your life's mission.
Because there is freedom of choice, there is the possibility of finding.
Moreover, the collaboration and convenience of information brought by the Internet have made it possible for slash youth and freelancers, and this identity is a relatively complete liberation - you don't have to be limited to the module time of clocking in and out, and you don't have to be limited to limited professional constraints.
However, in the past ten years of observation, the relative freedom brought by the Internet has lasted for a short time, and the freedom of freelancers is very limited, because there are not many changes in career choices, and once you want to use your own value to deliver to this market, you have to face market competition.
As long as this market is still rolling, everyone is still taking "efficiency" as the core value, whether you are a slash youth or a freelancer, you still have to be limited to that limited professional division of labor system.
To make matters worse, freelancers also lose the sense of security that comes with organizational culture, benefits, and relationships.
Especially in the era of industry downturn, freedom has not been obtained, and the sense of security has been lost, such as the women who were trapped in the family in the past, the group of people who are now trapped in the wave of layoffs, and the freelancers who choose to come out as independent individuals in the future.
The emergence of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 has made AI quickly become the biggest hotspot and another central technology that will change the world in the next 10 years.
The emergence of AI brings the possibility of the second liberation, that is, in the Internet age, slash youth and freelancers have the possibility of becoming "super individuals".
The so-called super individual means that a person is an enterprise, not an enterprise where one person does everything, but a person + AI = an enterprise.
Just like the head of the management workshop on the Ford production line, the workshop is controlled by AI, and you control the manufacturing of the entire workshop, you know what you are doing, you also know what the products are made, and even know that they are going to be sold.
As a result, under the condition that the efficiency and benefits of traditional industries remain unchanged, your sense of value has come up, and your control has also come up.
The owners of a business are often the people with the highest sense of self-realization value, and they are also the people who are qualified to talk about the sense of meaning and life mission, and in the AI era, the threshold for becoming an independent small business is greatly reduced.
In the past, an artist started at 8000 a month, but now Midjourney only costs a few hundred dollars a month, and it is cheaper for everyone to spell an account.
In the future, there are many, many more AI tools, and our costs will become lower and lower.
Standing in the big picture, Sam Altman's utopian city may really be realized, energy to nuclear fusion, artificial to AI robots, efficiency to AI systems, people only need to complete creative creation in it.
The huge AI and energy system is enough to feed all mankind.