We are witnessing the emergence of a new structure of the world.
Not one made of steel and cement, but of code, algorithms, conversational interfaces and distributed networks. More and more powerful human networks.
What was once reserved for laboratories, governments or corporations is today, literally, at our fingertips.
Generative Artificial Intelligence has made this phenomenon impossible to ignore. From creating images, music and videos in seconds, to programming, generating virtual assistants and collaborators, automating processes, customizing our products and analyzing large volumes of data without technical knowledge.
But it is not an exception or an isolated miracle.
What we see is how this technology is following the natural path of Peter Diamandis' 6Ds:
Digitization of information, processes and human capabilities.
Initial disappointment, when its capabilities seem limited (remember the metaverse?)
Disruption, when it changes the rules of the game.
Demonetization, by eliminating traditional costs.
Dematerialization, the conversion from physical to digital (e.g. scientific calculator, formerly hardware in the cell phone)
And now, Democratization, by putting tools of creation, analysis and action in the hands of millions (plus the possibility of co-creating them)
It is not that Generative AI skips these phases. It is that since the emergence of Generative AI and ChatGPT (enabling it to be used with natural language) it has crossed them with unusual speed and visibility, revealing what is happening with many other technologies that are advancing, perhaps with less noise, but with equal potential impact: 3D printing, blockchain, biotechnology, decentralized energy, neuroscience, robotics.
The true revolution is not that each technology advances separately. They are converging.
And when generative AI is democratized along with 3D printing, genetic editing, local solar energy production, quantum computing, nanotechnology, the metaverse, brain-computer interfaces or decentralized organizational systems, we will be facing a civilizational turning point.
Each of these tools, in the hands of individuals, entrepreneurs, small groups and organized communities, will redefine production, work, health, education, politics, identity and power.
In this context, the phenomenon of "Solopreneurship" or Company of One is emerging strongly: individuals who, leveraged by AI and other technologies, can operate as entire organizations.
With a laptop and connection, you can:
Design products and services.
Produce them (with 3D printing, outsourcing or networks of freelancers).
Sell ??globally.
Manage relationships, collections, marketing and support with automations and virtual agents.
But they are not alone. They do so connected with others in distributed communities, in decentralized networks, in ecosystems where knowledge circulates freely and decisions do not need hierarchical approval.
We are facing a new form of organization, where power no longer resides in the accumulation of resources, but in the ability to orchestrate collective intelligence.
And then, conflict appears: While power multiplies and is distributed, traditional structures try to re-centralize it.
We see governments tightening regulations, restricting access or controlling data. Using the same exponential technologies (e.g. biometrics, AI) to control (as happened in Asia during the pandemic).
Platforms designed not to empower, but to build loyalty, capture and enclose.
This is not new. History is full of examples where elites attempt to maintain the status quo when the masses begin to have a voice, tools, or influence. But this time there is a difference: the speed and scale of the change make it almost impossible to stop.
And that involves risks, opportunities and responsibility.
When power was centralized, decisions were regulated from above. Today, with technologies in the hands of millions, this regulation must emerge from a new place: individual and collective conscience.
Democratizing is transferring responsibility. It is inviting each person to understand that they can now create, transform, influence, but also that they must assume the impact of their decisions.
Because democratizing without training is exposing without protecting. And to regulate without understanding is to censor without transforming.
Nothing is more difficult to learn than power. Nothing more complex than avoiding its abuse.
At Scalabl®, we have been training people for this new world for a decade.
We train in business, strategy, technology, purpose, impact. We provide power tools (being able to do) and we offer the incentives and mentality to be able to positively impact with them, help others, and avoid hurting ourselves.
We have understood for years that human coordination in communities and its multiplying power is the only thing that can enable a positive future.
We organize ourselves in learning communities where each participant learns to undertake, innovate, sell and apply AI, but also to explore its purpose, think about its role in society, its business model, its social impact.
We teach how to design Virtuous Business Models, not just profitable (reduced risk, financing with clients, actors at the center, potential scalability). To build with purpose, not just with efficiency.
And we develop GPTs trained in our methodology, as accessible mentors 24/7, who democratize access to strategic knowledge, turning each interaction into an opportunity for transformation.
Because knowing how to use the tools is not enough.
You have to know what they are used for, with whom and from where. Strategy and business model before AI and technology application. Leverage the value of the actors.
What will happen when anyone can make what they need at home?
When communities self-organize with AI and smart contracts?
When can we design medicines or foods adapted to our needs with personal biotechnology?
When energy flows locally and there is no longer a need to depend on large networks?
When work, money and education are redesigned from the human perspective and not from the institutional perspective?
There will be those who try to prohibit, censor, contain, preserve their power.
There will be those who abuse, manipulate, deceive.
But there will also be millions who decide to use this power to build a more just, sustainable and free world.
As human beings we have been harming ourselves, the rest of the species and the planet for millions of years.
History is not written. But the power to write it has never been as distributed as it is now.
We must embrace the new power we receive, train ourselves in the management of that power, learn to make it possible, and impact with purpose, understanding the responsibility that entails and the risk of each of our words, actions and attitudes.
Democratizing is not about distributing tools, it is about distributing power. And power is not delegated: it is assumed. This is the time to lead, not from control, but from responsibility. Because for the first time in history, you don't need to ask permission to change the world. You just need to decide to do it.
Video from 2019 with the purpose of Scalabl®, our vision and how we have been preparing people for 10 years for this future that is beginning to look clearer today.
