We stand at a precipice. The year 2030 looms just over four years away, yet most people remain unaware of the profound transformation being engineered for our world and our very bodies. Multiple global forces have converged on this date, each with ambitious plans to fundamentally remake human civilization as we know it.
The United Nations has designated 2030 as the target year for achieving seventeen specific goals. The World Economic Forum, meeting annually in Davos, has aligned with these objectives, articulating a vision that sounds benign until you examine the details. Their stated aim: to merge our natural world, our digital world, and our biological world into one massive digital complex controlled by artificial intelligence. They promise this will make our lives easier, safer, and less stressful. What they don’t emphasize is the cost: nothing less than the surrender of our humanity itself.
This isn’t distant science fiction. The technology already exists. RFID chips implanted under the skin are being widely adopted in Northern European countries, granting access to workplaces, bank accounts, and payment systems. Computer chips, AI systems, and synthetic biological components stand ready to replace our natural abilities. The infrastructure for a technocratic civilization is being assembled before our eyes.
The Devolution Disguised as Evolution
Scientists increasingly frame this transformation as the inevitable next step in human evolution. “Isn’t merging our biology with machines and AI simply evolutionary progress?” they ask. The answer is unequivocally no. This represents devolution, not evolution, and the science proves it.
Our bodies operate on a fundamental biological principle: use it or lose it. When we replace natural biology with synthetic alternatives, when AI assumes our cognitive functions, our innate abilities begin to atrophy. We are biological systems, and unused biological systems deteriorate.
Consider how our understanding of the brain has evolved. Decades ago, we were taught that humans are born with a fixed number of brain cells that only diminish over time. We now know the hippocampus produces new brain cells until our final breath, even at 130 years old. However, there’s a critical catch: if these new cells aren’t meaningfully engaged within seven to ten days, they atrophy and die. The body withdraws energy from systems it perceives as unnecessary.
This principle applies universally across human biology. When chemicals mimic our immune response, the body eventually reduces its natural immune function. When we outsource creativity to artificial intelligence, we lose not just our creativity but our very capacity to create and imagine.
The AI Creativity Crisis
A February 2025 peer-reviewed study from the University of Toronto reveals the devastating cognitive effects of chronic AI dependence. Artists who rely on ChatGPT instead of their own imagination, writers who outsource composition, musicians who delegate creation to algorithms are experiencing measurable neurological changes. They’re losing their ability to imagine and create because the AI performs these functions for them, leaving critical neural pathways dormant.
Furthermore, when groups chronically depend on AI for creative work, their ideas become what researchers termed “vanilla”—homogeneous and derivative. The beautiful innovations that drive genuine creativity and open new pathways disappear as everyone converges on the same narrow band of AI-generated thinking. And this is just the beginning. AI hasn’t been widely available long, yet we’re already witnessing its impact on cognitive abilities, creative capacity, language skills, and problem-solving aptitude.
The Singularity Approaches
Ray Kurzweil, the renowned futurist whose predictions have proven remarkably accurate, forecasts that between 2032 and 2035 we’ll reach what he calls the singularity. His 2024 book outlines a world where humans don’t log onto the internet but become the internet itself through electrical components integrated into our bodies. We won’t interface with the network; we will be the interface.
The U.S. military already possesses technology that links soldiers’ minds to the cloud, creating a hive consciousness for coordinated military operations. This technology operates through nanotechnology introduced via diet, water, and even breathable nanoparticle dust invisible to the naked eye. While such capabilities might have beneficial applications, the proposal involves global systemwide implementation—a prospect that should give us pause.
From the perspective of those seeking power, control, and consolidated regulation through AI, this represents the perfect solution. Technocrats are actively steering civilization toward this outcome, and the technology isn’t theoretical. It exists now. The question isn’t whether we can do this, but whether we should.
The Point of No Return
Here’s what makes this moment so critical: once we surrender our humanity to technology, there’s no going back. This isn’t something you can try for a year and reverse if you don’t approve. When our bodies are exposed to new technology, they morph and adapt, leaving behind previous abilities to accommodate new conditions. We abandon capacities we evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in exchange for synthetic replacements that, while perhaps more efficient in narrow ways, fundamentally alter what it means to be human.
Remembering Our Humanness
But here’s the profound truth: this isn’t really about learning something new. It’s about remembering what we’ve always been. We appeared on this earth mysteriously about 200,000 years ago with supernatural abilities—our capacity for imagination, creativity, innovation, the ability to love without fear, to communicate deep truths with one another, to forgive for the sake of forgiving, to heal our own bodies. These aren’t skills to acquire; they’re gifts to preserve.
When you let go of the programming, when you release the lies and anything that’s not true, all that’s left is your divinity. All that’s left is your humanness. The greatest mastery isn’t in accepting every new technology that promises convenience. The greatest mastery is in preserving the vessel, protecting the gift of our humanness, especially for our children.
Our children are being given a narrative that isn’t true, making them vulnerable to accepting technologies that may deny their fundamental nature. We can’t prepare them for every eventuality because we don’t know exactly what’s coming. But we can give them benchmarks by which to gauge their choices. We can give them values that serve as navigation tools through an uncertain future.
Benchmarks for the Journey Ahead
When faced with new technologies asking for acceptance into our lives and bodies, we must ask crucial questions: Does this technology affirm or deny my expressions of divinity? Does it support or diminish my imagination, my creativity, my innovation? Does it enhance or limit my ability to love without fear, to communicate authentically with others, to forgive freely, to heal my own body?
If what we’re being asked to accept denies or stifles any of these human expressions of life—these divine expressions—then we know it’s probably not good for us. Not to judge it, but to discern so we can make healthy choices without anger, with kindness, but make those choices firmly for ourselves and our families.
Human life must be one of those benchmarks. If AI is going to run our supply chains, determine when our food reaches us, when our medical supplies arrive, where our electricity comes from, we want that AI to prioritize human life, sovereignty, and freedom above all else.
The Great Bifurcation and Our Choice
We’re witnessing a split in society happening in real time. One segment has bought completely into technological integration—in their homes, cars, and bodies—because they’ve never been given compelling reasons for caution. They trust the promises of convenience and security.
Another segment, perhaps not fully understanding all the technical details, senses something wrong. These are the salt of the earth, truly good people who recognize that change is accelerating beyond human capacity to thoughtfully integrate it. Their response is to return to basics: removing children from public schools to instill cherished values and practical skills, growing their own food, healing their bodies naturally, and reclaiming autonomy over their lives.
Spirit Will Transcend
This moment is more about remembering than achieving through doing. It’s a divine experiment of free will, with choice points divinely interjected along our path. We maintain sovereignty—the sovereignty of choice—and the way we carve forward depends entirely on the decisions we make. We’ll be the ones who live with the lessons we lift from our responses.
There’s reason for enthusiasm here, not in the shallow sense, but in its true etymological meaning: to infuse with spirit. Spirit has its ways. Perhaps this entire challenge serves as a test, reminding us of the importance of spirit in an age that threatens to reduce everything to code and circuitry.
We have four years until the convergence point. Four years to decide whether we’ll accept the vision being engineered for us or chart a different course. Four years to determine if we’ll preserve what makes us uniquely human or allow it to atrophy in service to artificial convenience.
The technology will continue advancing. The question is whether we advance with it on our terms, maintaining our essential humanity, or whether we surrender that humanity for promises of ease and safety.
We are not here to give away the humanness we were given 200,000 years ago. We are here to protect it, to cherish it, to pass it intact to our children. The sovereignty is ours. The choice is ours. And the time to choose is now.
Outstandingly written, Brett, a column to reread slowly-and carefully-as it should be with muscular writing and thoughts.
We’ve relinquished so much so quickly, and an upcoming generation’s reliance and trust on technology rather than people is ineffably scary.
Much to contemplate..
I counsel a client who claims to have mystical experiences. I tell him that my entire life has been a mystical experience. That's how I view being "here", wherever "here" actually is. Tzaddik Bret strikes again with great insight.