The fear is palpable. You mention ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and immediately, alarm bells start ringing. We swiftly conclude that robots will take over and an apocalypse is imminent. Perhaps one day, ‘artificial intelligence’ - once considered a testament to one of man’s greatest ingenuities – will soon become taboo.

I believe technology is triggering two remarkable global phenomena: globalizing safety and maximizing potentiality.

It seems almost every civilization has attempted to create a culture of safety. A culture where people feel connected to one another and live fear-free. Such values have proven difficult to sustain due to perpetual threat from neighboring tribes. If we all lived within the same culture, I’m convinced such threat and fear would be minimized.

Technology is driving us towards peak globalization. Take the big four: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Arguably the 4 biggest tech companies in the world. What do they all do? Connect people globally: they are the engines behind ‘The Age of the Platform’. Amazon connects sellers with buyers. Apple (itunes) connects artists with fans. Facebook connects friends. And google…well… Google connects everything and everyone.

In addition to communication and connection, global transport is advancing profoundly. Musk himself has just revealed one of his most ambitious plans yet: intercontinental rocket flight. He calculates a flight from London to New York would take under 30 minutes through space.

The point being is that a globally-integrated community seems only inevitable, if the rate of globalisation is maintained. This is already evident through the homogeneity of cities and the rise of multiculturalism. Take London for example – could you really walk around London and pick out the expats? The expats are the brits.

It’s at everyone’s best interest to live safe and secure - to reach a point where we don’t live in fear. We are merely a speck in an eternal darkness. All we have is each other. And finally, technology has the capabilities to enlighten us on this stark but touching truth and unite us on a global scale.

Technology is also freeing up time for people to fulfill their potential. Automation is superseding exploitative, dehumanizing and alienating jobs that are not designed for us. AI is essentially the antidote to the flaws of capitalism. We were not meant to sit in a factory all day gluing one cog to another; we have so much potential, and manual labor jobs such as these only exercise a very narrow bandwidth of our potential. What makes us distinctively unique is our ability to transform the world freely and consciously. And excellently doing what makes us distinctively unique is what truly brings fulfillment.

Only 13% of countries are considered ‘developed’. The vast majority of successful people that we know have emerged from developed countries. Put that into perspective. Think of all the John Lennons, Pablo Picassos and Steve Jobs out there that have been muted or restrained by the shackles of their environment. Through a rise of the internet and accessibility, more and more people have a platform to prosper. No wonder we are experiencing a proliferation in entrepreneurs.

Through the rise in security and opportunity, I prophesy a world in which everyone can fulfill their true potential. A world in which people are going to bed at night unafraid. A world in which we are more conscious than ever, enabling us to make more prudent and ethical decisions.

This vision seems to be an ancient one, steeped within many civilizations. The ancient Greeks aspired to ‘tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world’. Ghandi preached that ‘the golden way is to regard the whole human family as one’. And alluding back to John Lennon, heimagined‘there’s no countries …and the world will be as one’.

Call me a romanticist but this is the divine ideality. Finally, we have entered the very infant stages for an ideality we have craved since our existence. And technology is the catalyst to manifest this ideality. The catalyst to reach a new era of enlightenment: The Golden Age of Humanity.