A Paradigm Shift

"A PARADIGM SHIFT" proposes that humanity is experiencing a transformation which can be seen in several areas of life including technology and psychology. While humans are using technology to perform tasks that steadily increase in complexity, technology is bringing about a restructure of the way humans think. Here is a sequence of events in the relationship between humans and technology:

When humans master the ability to perform a task, the knowledge and skill surrounding that task are offloaded to technology.

Technology performs the task in ways that are different from how humans perform the task.

Technology digitizes the performance of a task by reorganizing the data and redefining the process.

When humans later interact with the digitized task, it brings about a restructuring of the way that humans think about that task.

The proliferation of human tasks being offloaded to technology enables an evolving restructure of human thought.

As technology digitizes increasingly complex tasks, the restructuring of human thought places Homo Sapiens on a path to generating a new version of humanity.

Trends in technology and psychology have a pervasive influence on the paradigm shift. Gartner Incorporated discerns a technological trend which goes from people becoming literate about technology, to technology becoming literate about people. Wolfgang Giegerich discerns a psychological trend that goes from consciousness growing by expansion, to consciousness growing by reorganization. "A PARADIGM SHIFT" argues that trends in technology and psychology underpin an overarching paradigm shift that is restructuring human thought, while putting Homo Sapiens on the cusp of generating a more complex version of humanity.