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There is no doubt that the iconic era of rapid growth in entrepreneurship is nearing its end.
Since the dot-com boom of the 2000s, successful television shows have included: shark tank, apprenticeand dragon’s den (in which I also appeared) has inspired an army of hungry, ambitious people who have thrown themselves into the risky, opportunistic, exciting, stressful, but independent world of entrepreneurship. Ta.
With over 500 million entrepreneurs and 150 million startups worldwide, we live in an era where we are witnessing the unprecedented rise and evolution of independent business and entrepreneurship. Masu.
I remember growing up when most people couldn’t spell the word entrepreneur. When I was a teenager, this is how I would describe myself. It sounded exotic and cool, but at the time, most people didn’t understand what I was doing or its value.
But now, my aunt, cousin, grandmother, and niece are all proud entrepreneurs. Regardless of a person’s age or demographic, advances in technology have significantly lowered barriers to entry and entrepreneurship has been touted as the buzzword of the century.
But is that all about to change with the rise of AI?
Too convenient human cost
In my day, being an entrepreneur often meant having to work harder than everyone around you. He who rises early gets the worm. Go to bed late and wake up early. Never take your eye off the ball. These were standard phrases of my time. Passion, determination and resilience were the only things that ensured success under any circumstances.
Today, becoming an entrepreneur seems as simple as twiddling your thumbs and clicking (or swiping) a few app buttons on your smartphone. Is it a tough job? Not likely! Just click on the appropriate settings or prompts and you’re done. Let the machines do the hard work!
Humans are born with an anatomy and physique designed to be hunters, gatherers, woodcutters, climbers, and runners. We are blessed to be physically active and agile. Unfortunately, humans have spent a century turning these mannerisms into desk-bound, delivery-service-happy hermits.
That in itself will bring dramatic changes to humanity for decades and centuries to come.
Yes, an AI can write a paper or order concert tickets for you. Machines undoubtedly make life easier, reduce wasted time, and increase efficiency, but what impact do they have on our bodies, minds, and spirits? How can we fight aging and dementia? , requires complex physical and mental challenges to our resolve and cognitive abilities every day.
We rely on machines to perform even the most basic tasks in our lives, such as driving from one place to another. As we all know when the GPS signal is lost, if we don’t know the route in our brains, we get lost. This doesn’t work well in emergencies or for the cognition and evolution of our hearts and minds.
With technology driving so much of our decision-making, can we become independent and free thinkers?
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur today?
Are people really entrepreneurs when they click a button and the rest is automated? What if they built the hardware, software, and automation themselves? That’s clearly entrepreneurship in my eyes. It’s full of. But if another person creates a machine and uses it, is that person really an entrepreneur?
Having produced and directed numerous television programs that actively explore and showcase advanced technology and innovation, I am clearly bullish about our future as technology advances by leaps and bounds. But we must be honest that while we ourselves, machines, automation, robots, and computers, while giving us certain abilities, are taking away many natural human functions that are the basis of human cognitive abilities and needs. Let’s think about it.
New research shows that overuse of technology can seriously damage the brain systems that connect emotional processing, attention, and decision-making. The findings show a link between technology overload and anxiety, severe depression, and suicide.
People worry about robots taking our jobs or taking over completely, but I think humans are generally at a disadvantage as a result of having advanced technology. , I worry that I’m becoming lazy, stupid, and unhealthy.
Garry Kasparov, the first chess champion to lose to a machine, once said, “What we need is not less skill, but better humans.”
Where is the true entrepreneurship when everything is automated and left to the originators of those technologies?
Humans are highly adaptable and innovative, adapting to the rapid integration of technology and machines into our world, but we must always stay one step ahead of machines, stay informed, and perform hard work. The basic thing is to step up.
The key to a sustainable and successful future is for us to synergize and synchronize with machines, cultivate our natural abilities, hone our strengths, train our bodies and minds, and not be satisfied with external technological capabilities and resources. It is to do so.
Thomas Edison’s formula, “Genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent hard work,” still holds true today. Even though machines will eventually do 90 of the manual tasks, that doesn’t mean we can rely on just 10 percent of the inspiration.
