How many innovations that are hyped, are actually making a profound, sustainable or transformative difference to life beyond our one expression of life, or our fleeing experiences there within? 

Which innovations do aim to aid us to going beyond our narrow sensibilities of consciousness, rather than becoming stuck on a shiny thing placed within it? 

Which innovations do or shall aid us into exploring consciousness; this latter, both as a granularity and as a wavelet, and these modeled, as a map taken from within the larger expanse of the universe? While imagining this latter: which type of innovation shall take us beyond the often-reverted-to fluffiness (which is somewhat as these incompetent words here) and into a seriously (scientific and spiritual) considering of consciousness? 

Which innovation shall enable us to mature beyond the gratification of constructed distractions, tickling the happy few within an entire human species (forecasted to peak at 11 billion individuals)? How much can one be tickled before it becomes torturous?

Might such innovations *not* lie within the consequences of yet another application that allows one to swipe left or up, or shake the hardware or enact another gimmick, mapped with a social credit-line, rationalized by means of a cryptocurrency and a blockchain (e.g.BitClout)? The idea of social credit has been played with in entertainment and large-scale collective social experiments alike.

When shall we ask whether these intriguing experiments sufficiently offer access to a humane, discerning and compassionate consciousness, beyond mesmerization of collecting credit as capital?  

Many (including, in some form of paradoxical “hypocrisy”, I as well) are continuously awed by such promises of a (utopian / dystopian and yet not so scientific) deliverable, following a swipe up, or a shake up of various kinds, which, perhaps in the case of BitClout, might seem to aim at monetizing the (allocated) social value one has / shall have / shall have until distracted away. 

In trans-disciplinary comparison, a military application from a few thousand years ago might now have brought pleasure to some (e.g. fireworks and gunpowder). This might be while these might have shifted suffering from their  original intent into a novel area of human drama: e.g. harm by fireworks’ production and usage. This ancient innovation mesmerizes some, still today, and some of its applications might, in fact, answer some needs and offer some solutions. 

So too does it go for today’s *hyped* innovations: are they merely explosively attractive, or do they sufficiently answer more or less pressing urgencies? 
If not pressing, are they sufficiently explained and understood by the layperson, and expert alike, as to what their long-term potentials might offer?

Can we ask and try considering what these innovations might offer in a scaled, sustainable, multidimensional and contextualized manner, and not only in a specific area of thrill, to a handpicked happy few, who cling on to feeling socially special?

Is the up-cycling of mesmerization, (as a form of escapism?), the innovation we need as a species; as a life form? Have we thus, with such innovation at our present-day disposal, arrived at our collective destination? Is. This. It? 

Should we light our fireworks for the achieved advances with our mobilized, decentralized dehumanized applications in a sedentary-chained crypto-existence? (…don’t mind my poetic pathos) 

I have a strong, yet naive, intuition surrounding a possible answer to the latter wondering, which to me and for now, tends towards: no. 

Please note, this is not a plea against any specific research nor development. Disclosing: I  too work in these areas. It is, however, a (re)quest to wonder as a human, beyond the tickling of a momentary mesmerization by the hyped alone (not simply that what is abused by the process of hype). 

Consciousness, the awareness of the impermanence of a trigger, the compassion toward oneself and the other in our research, development and applications, lies here at the basis of this wondering. Are our findings and visions geared towards these? If not then what is the long-game some might be mesmerized by?

Moving away from trigger-happy hype and thrill, one might move closer to pause for refection beyond mere reaction, and offer compassionate consideration; … oh how idealistic I still remain to be (again, don’t mind the poetics). 

What are your thoughts? 

Referenced and intriguing example: https://bitclout.com/ (invested into by a dozen funds such as Sequoia Capital) “The Crypto Social Network” where “Everyone gets their own coin”