S4 Ep. 256 2050, The Turn That Tests Us

SPEAKER_00: Hello there. Welcome to the World Cafe Podcast. This podcast has been designed with created content that centers on the power of words. Can we really do anything without speaking? Can we really do anything without the agency of words? Yes, that is what this podcast is all about. And I am your host, Amakri Iswe, your neighborhood word trader. I believe in the power of words, for it is the unit of creation. I trade in words to profit my world. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good everything. Wherever you are, yes, this very instant. On the surface of the earth, listening to me. Good, good, good, good, good. Always exciting coming in here. Yeah, always, sincerely, always. Gives me this comfort. What do we do here? We provoke, we talk, we share, we encourage. That's what we do on the show. And it's all about words. So I sat for a while ruminating, going through you know different episodes on the show, what we have done by God's grace, seeing what we have shared over time. It's amazing, sincerely speaking. Sometimes I say that and I listen to myself, I go through my show notes. You know, it's like, wow, wow, it's amazing. The body of work, the knowledge we are contributing, you know, to the overall collective of knowledge. It's amazing, and it's, I mean, it gives me this joy knowing that you're part of it, you're listening, you're following, you're sharing, you know. So, what are we going to be talking about today on the show? I guess that's what you're wondering because that's what we do each time we come here. You know, I want to talk about the turn of the century. 2050 would see us entering another century. Some of us maybe will be grandparents by then. Some of us maybe will be married, have children. Some of us may be at that point happy that we have seen what we built grow, become something. Why some of us may be regretting for not making any decision, for not taking investing in something. Now, when you look at the beautiful thing about time, recorded history, that is, you can pinpoint uh what I call it inflection points where things happen. There's this change, there is this what I call it leap, there is this curve, 1900, 1800, 1700. If you go back from and it's always person-driven, like you look at the life of Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King Jr. now, the Lutheran, the Protestant. That was close to 500 years ago when he started, you know, challenging the status quo of that time, how it influenced practically everything: governance, structures, and you know, name it. Changed everything. Now we we we're living in the creation of the past. If you understand what I mean by that, those who came before us thinks they did great names, the Newtons, the Edison's, the Teslas, not Elon Musk, Nikola Tesla. Yes, you know, Western Churchill, and what have you? Those are foreign names. When you come to Africa, you hear names like Nafemandela, you hear names like Kaziqiwe, you hear names like Amadou Belo, Tafabelewa, Awala War, you know, and bringing it home. Then what's going to happen in 2050? Politically speaking, technologically speaking, socially, economically, a lot happening. But there's one thing that is now what I call it a denominator, a factor that is somewhat controlling the narrative. And some of us have more or less ceded our humanity to it, and it feels like, oh, without this, this will not work, and all of that. AI, artificial intelligence, as we call it. Practically, if you go out there now, you have everything is AI, if you ask the ubiquity of is now ubiquitous, so to say, as in AIDS, AI that AIDS, AI that. So don't be fooled. Like I was discussing, I know we've talked about this on the show before. What powers AI? The material world powers AI. Yeah, the digital age is a function of the material world. There is no digital age without the material world. And somehow those who have come to know this are now harnessing boot ends. Yep, supercomputers, uh, microchips, and all that, they run on rare earth metals. So countries and places that are heavily endowed with rare earth metals are becoming endangered, so to say, and you have vested interest now playing out and all of that. So all of this is building up to the turn of the century. So let me piggyback a little. When you look at the first and second world wars, for those of us who are students of history, took place at the turn of the century. As in I think that's 20th or 20, no, 20th century, 1900. The first world war happened in 1917, the second happened in 1937, I think, 38. They all both happened back to back as a result of the Austria-Hungarian issue. Okay. Yes, I'm a student of history. So there's something I know, and I heard recently, and it tripped me that for you to know and understand the mystery of wealth, you must appreciate and understand the history of wealth. So if you want to understand anything that appears mysterious, look for its history. You will understand it better. It's not father, the codes are not different, it is just either a quantum leap or uh what do you call it, astronomical, that is still the same. Like it's a factor of factor of. So you see it happen. And all of this was as a result of path, or rather, what really made these things take shape and take form, the industrial age, metals, discovering of metals, how we can harness the potential of atoms to change the way we see things and all of that. So now the turn of the century, which will happen in 2050, is like the speed at which we are harnessing. Amazing, amazing, but there's something that always beats me. It's like Africa is playing catch up in all of this. And we now like, okay, ah, is that how to do it? And we now jump on the banged wagon. And I think it's it's time we all to look at it from our perspective. The made in Africa technology, the made in Africa materials, culture, fashion, design. Yeah, made in Africa. So when you think that Africa, as they call it, the dark continent, like there's no light, let me tell you something. The technology in Africa is unparalleled. Now pick up Chino Achibes, things fall apart. I I challenge you, pick that book up and read it. It was written here in Africa by an African mind expressed by an African tongue. That's to tell you how powerful the African mind is and can be. But because we have not really placed ourselves there, we're playing catch up. So, what would Africa look like in by 2050? You see, each of the world powers negotiating, you know, and all of that. Money, as we know it, is changing if it has not changed completely. Where we now have digital currencies, crypto is coming up. You see, somebody, the fiat currency is so downplayed. Now, the other day I picked up my wallet and realized the wallet doesn't carry more than if I mean 10,000 naira, or let me put it in clear terms, a hundred dollars. Because practically everything we do now is we transfer, you know, digital currency, you know, you just move money like that, you pay for things. Yes, you know, suya now, the street food in Nigeria, they they have a POS machine now. They even they even encourage you, we don't take cash. So that's how currency, what we know as money, has moved up to. So our value system is beginning to change. So those who are invested in digital activities are becoming the next thing. Yeah, you see a lot of applications, apps being developed. So those who harness the knowledge of the digital or cyberspace are edging out, they are amassing so much wealth. I'm only giving you what 2050 would look like. It's the turn of the century. Somebody say, Ah, well, we need to fight it. You you know, you don't fight time, you can't stop time. You cannot, it will happen, it will come. But what do you do? Like the eagle that takes advantage of the stump and rides, or rather, soars. That is what we should do. You sense the current of the wind, the strength of the wind. You you you practice flight, strengthen your wings, and you fly. Now, those who will be born in the next say five, ten years, they are not going to be gen alpha. You will be called or gen cipher, maybe, who calls everything flying now, and those who were born who are digital natives will challenge the status quo of how learning should be. So now we have things like machine learning, which we call like you find it in uh chat GBT, Gemini, and all those uh online applications. So you begin to see things like the democratization of knowledge becoming so granular, very granular. So the other day I went online to do something and I realized that averagely we're spending in a year, averagely, one individual is spending close to $250 on applications, apps. Like they will tell you to use the free one use when you know when you taste it, it becomes so sweet, and you want to like they'll now tell you to pay for preperium, the book pro. So by the time you do the calculation, you're spending close to$250 for an app. So that's just you. So multiply it across one million people. So the developers of those apps are becoming even richer than oil and gas, or even the iron and tech, if you understand what I mean by that. Because the tech, the iron, the oil and gas would need those applications to do their jobs. So support functions are becoming, should I say, more valuable than the core functions, if you understand what I mean by that. So those who are invested in that are growing. So the next set of people that will come on the scene, children, human beings, they will be so digitally, digitally colonized, they will call them digital, we'll maybe call it digital colonization, that they will only respond to digital products and functions, that even departmental stores, local markets, um buying and selling in that sense decentralizes. So the trust element of this app will begin to appreciate. Why? Because you need value. So that age, that time will see a lot of this, and again, you know what? There will be this what I call it other side to it, the analog renaissance. What do I mean by that? The old school renaissance. You come to see the market for nostalgia growing, where people would want to see books that they can hold and smell to appreciate reading, not just the digital format. So you have a market for it. You now have, you know, like in the US of that time where you have to have when they used to have jute boxes where you go, you know, they have the record player, a jute box, you slot in a coin, then you pick your song and you play to it. Such things will begin to come up. You find out you now see joints where you begin to build such things for them, machines for them. It's like, where are you going? I'm going to listen to old school jams. Then you see clothing styles 2050. You need to see things like that. You know, why am I talking about it? I think it's because we need to prepare ourselves. A wise man said, He who has no plan, or he who fails to plan has planned already to fail. So you see, you leave from the future. No, you leave from the future, you anticipate it, you plan for it, you build for it, you prepare for it, because that's what is coming. There will be this fight, you know, fight, fight for the truth, fight for value. So you now begin to see that truth is cash, value is now premium, is now gold, and people who really yearn for it will pay premium for it. It doesn't sound like a dystopia future. If you're like, I'm scaring you, no, I'm not scaring you. I'm only telling you the truth, what will be. So it's for us to like wake up, put ourselves together, and plan for it. You get plan for it. Yeah, the turn of the century. That's what I came to do on the show today. And uh, I know I've struck a chord in you, but you don't have to be scared, it's our time. Yes, this is our place, this is our moment, it's for us to seize it and make the best of it. All right then, we're available, yes, on all yeah, our social media handles are there. We're on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Spotify. We we have a YouTube channel. Have you subscribed? Please do. It's part of the 2050. We're talking about a digital environment. 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