The Digital Mind of Tomorrow: Rethink, transform, and thrive in a fast-changing and brutal digital world

By Isabella Wang

"Isabella's insights on the future of business will open your eyes to what could be achieved..."- Howard Tiersky, WSJ Bestselling Author

No one knows but you.

Our outdated social structure collapses in the digital age. We are ignorant of how technology affects us on a fundame

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Thinker LLC
• Release date: Jul 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798986234021

Isabella Wang

Isabella Wang is the author of the chapbook On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press, 2019). She has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry, Minola Review’s Poetry Contest, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. Wang’s poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals and three anthologies, including Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020) and They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press, 2021). She studies English and world literature at Simon Fraser University and is an editor at Room magazine. Pebble Swing is her debut full-length poetry collection. She lives in Port Moody, BC.

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Acknowledgments

It was a no-brainer to relocate the acknowledgments section to the top of the book, as the rest of the book would not exist without the support of the following people.

My paternal grandfather passed away nine years ago, and my paternal grandmother left us last year. While they are no longer physically present with me, they continue to inspire me spiritually every day.

I couldn't have done anything close to what I've achieved so far if I hadn't had the full backing of my beloved father and mother. Their love, open-mindedness, and refreshing perspectives gently and firmly fuel my journey of discovery.

I would like to extend my profound appreciation to Martha for being my safe haven and a true testimony to God's grace.

Thank you, Manuel Vexler, for never allowing me to be anything other than myself. I'd probably still be stuck on my original mindmap if it hadn't been for your countless hours of mentoring.

Mike Pavlov and the rest of the Creative House team helped a lot with building this project from the ground up. This included creative design, website development, and a marketing strategy for both before and after the book came out.

Helena Escalante was the first person to get on a call with me when I decided to write a book and offered everything she could to help me get started.

Tremendous gratitude to the following amazing people who believed in this book and gave their time, knowledge, and resources to help with the different topics it covers. A partial list includes:

Dr. Rauf Arif, Björn Radde, Rodney W. Zemmel, Tom Raftery, Carlos Meléndez, Enrique Dans, Jeffrey Litvack, Patrick Bensen, Susan Mcpherson, Mathia Klenk, Tony Zambito, Jeff Wang, Arun Sundararajan, Rob Master, David Birch, Olesija Saue, Danila Medvedev, Preeti Adhikary, Eric Simone, Michael Krigsman, Leonard Lee, Caroline Lair, Michael Noel, Jon Parks, Jay Abbasi, Frank Mattes, Maja Lapcevic, Phil Johnson, Drew Neisser, Aman Y. Agarwal, Ron Slee.

Thanks to Lily and Emily, who put up with my amateur writing manuscripts and provided valuable editorial advice.

Thank you to my beta readers for helping make my book better and for believing in it.

In fact, I'd like to thank everyone and everything that has led up to this moment, because the present is a reflection of past experiences formed by past thoughts.

Every moment of our lives deserves recognition and appreciation from the bottom of our hearts as well as for the future, and it takes a significant level of effort to preserve that.

Finally, I'd like to thank YOU for coming along on this adventure with me. Please read on.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Mind Map

Chapter I The Way Forward

The Limitation

No Standstill

The Last Ray

Chapter II The Real Danger

The Degradation

Dependence and Prejudice

Younger Generations

Chapter III The Digital Empire

The New Covenant

Artificial Power

The Next Breakthrough

Chapter IV The Empty Ambition

Deep Link

The Blurry Line

The Turning Point

Chapter V The Big Picture

The Identity Crisis

Indecisiveness

The Future is Now

Chapter VI The Renaissance of Mind

Perpetual Anxiety

Trust Crisis

You Knew

Epilogue

The Beginning of the End

Notes

Index

About the Author

Copyright

Preface

The journey of authoring this book has been soul-stirring. I lived with my paternal grandparents until I was nine years old, and they will always be my closest family members. My grandmother passed away when I was halfway through writing this book. The devastating occurrence significantly changed my perspective on what I genuinely want to share. So I decided to revamp the whole book completely.

You’re reading this book because you feel reckless in the chaos of today’s digital realm. But you want to do something to change the world. You appreciate thinking about the future and meeting individuals who share your beliefs. You are an idealist who seeks the spiritual significance and purpose of all actions rather than the physical effects of reality. Reality is nothing more than the expression of a well-thought-out notion. You want to not only find a future role for yourself but also fill it by making a substantial difference. There is no framework or template for the type of success mentioned above. Don’t believe someone or a book if you’ve been instructed to. There are, however, materials available to help you create your own map. Use this book as a step forward to find your hunches and connections as you consider the next inspiration that will propel you to serve humanity as a force of nature.

The Digital Mind of Tomorrow is a new way of thinking that is both a paradigm for technological and social progress and a philosophical question about How to remain a human being and What type of person should one be? This daring, forward-thinking mindset prefers to act rather than wait, leading to greater success than following. By maximizing the roles of each of us, we function effectively as a collective.

After reading this book, you may reconsider (upgrade) your relationship with digital technologies. And then take some action! What distinguishes you as a human being? The possibilities inspire you, and your future dreams empower others. You have a strong sense of the future. You are a visionary leader. Others can not foretell your future. But you’ll need the help of those who share your vision to make it a reality. As an extension of the concepts in this book, this book provides you with a group of like-minded peers who share your passion.

What exactly is this new way of thinking? You won’t have to travel far to find an answer on Earth. Just observe how our virtual lives have evolved with technological advancements ranging from self-flying drones to genetic engineering. We don’t lack ideas; we just need some guidance to point us away from materialistic pursuits and towards the true value of life.

My purpose was never to educate because we’ve already been taught enough; instead, the subsequent greatness of human progress is when the human mind has a better awareness of the value of life, to raise a consciousness that can see through any chaos. I am confident that after reading this book, your perspective will become more nuanced. Imagine that getting rid of digital drugs is the price you have to pay to reach the next level of success by being more human. This book is my personal invitation to become a little more humane.

The world is now at a standstill due to the absence of trust and a lack of purpose. This is a perfect time to ask questions, examine old values versus new possibilities, and consider what humanity’s role will be in the world we are creating.

We are passively evolving into something new; thus, humankind feels trapped since we cannot comprehend and produce results that exceed our current level of consciousness. Society is longing for the next social tissue that would bind us all together once more. Modern thought and belief have been flawed and powerless since the Enlightenment regarding a future where technology reigns supreme. Consciousness is humanity’s last beacon of hope and the only resource for finding a way out. The only way to deal with the invasion of digital reality is to restore emotional harmony. When we have a clear vision for our lives, the ability to bounce back from setbacks, and superior, intuitive knowledge that can’t be matched by AI, we can think more boldly and make a bigger difference in the world. We can also overcome fears and anxiety by cultivating emotional abundance. Then we can find our passion and live a spiritually fulfilling life.

There is a new digital mind that governs the future landscape. The vast majority of people haven’t yet woken up and still think as they did before the digital age. As a result, when people try to find solutions, none seem to work because the old key does not work on the new door. I’d like to invite YOU to read this book and join the adventure to find the new key, because no single mind can solve this problem independently.

The world relies on you to make this historical impact in designing and shaping humanity’s next great future. This is not a book to offer you an answer, but rather one to make you question it. If you can think through and give YOUR solution to any of the problems raised in the chapters, you will be the next person to make history.

-Isabella Wang

The Mind Map

I created a mindmap in the hope of assisting your reading. Scan the QR code to download the mindmap of the book.

Chapter I

The Way Forward

The digital mind in The Digital Mind of Tomorrow is much more than just technology; it’s a new way of thinking that advances the progress of humanity. As it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction, we spend more and more resources trying to do so while our lives remain stagnant. The underlying natural laws are constant, and if you don’t move forward, you’re going backward. Nothing in the universe can be described as steady motion. People came up with steady motion because we don’t like change, whether it means going forward or backward.

And for the same reason, we tend to avoid change in favor of safety, which makes it easy for conflict, tyranny, and downfall to happen. The average individual has no notion of profound thought since they rely on others to think for them. It’s like a parrot imitating and repeating someone else’s thoughts, and it’s all superficial and meaningless, a non-realization of causes and circumstances. As long as we understand how public opinion is formed, we can see how a tiny group of people in any country can control millions of others when the crowd is ready to let others make all of their decisions.

The world’s control ideology has never changed. That is, breaking into the complex mind system to affect human behavior. The philosophy of hacking has evolved through religion, communism, socialism, capitalism, and global government. The longer we tolerate it, the duller and less self-aware we become. We don’t live in the same world anymore because we don’t need a method or an agency when new technology can easily change the way we think. As modern technology artificially programs our minds, the longer we play this game, the less our instincts will matter.

Humans are currently delegating an increasing amount of cognitive capacity to machines. When we define success as buying attention, trillions of dollars have been spent on initiatives that have numbed our senses and put our cognitive thinking to sleep. Buzzwords and hype surrounding the new rockstars. There is no place for what distinguishes us as humans; there are no feelings, emotions, or souls. This is a truly modern phenomenon: we are frozen and artificial, accumulating vast amounts of information (not knowledge) without wisdom.

Unlike many previous books that focused simply on threats, this one highlights the importance of thinking in terms of humans. With a paralyzed mind, humanity faces the greatest existential setback in recorded history—a trust crisis and a lack of purpose. As technology advances, we lose faith in one another. The less faith we have in one another, the less desire for companionship there is. As a result, we live as modern cavemen, immersed in our screens and heartless. It was like a swarm of zombies or machines bumping into each other on the street or in the metaverse.

You can feel the power of new technologies while also feeling obsolete in the face of ever-improving innovations. I experienced a similar sense before I started working on this book. Despite the pressure, I’m feeling something else: a strong desire to liberate humanity from technological constraints and allow everything to progress fearlessly. Deepak Chopra and other New Age prophets say that we are spirits that will live forever and that the Earth is just a place to start growing spiritually. This may sound like a fantasy, and it very well may be. Still, it doesn’t rule out the possibility of some essential spiritual truths in their theories. The solution could be a group