Beyond the boundaries of humanity: when technology teaches us the true meaning of memento mori in 2026

The Acceleration That Broke Time

Until recently, the future followed a predictable trajectory. You could plan your career, imagine your goals, trust in economic stability. Then everything changed. It didn’t happen gradually but as a sharp break: November 30, 2022, marked the boundary between two eras. Before that date, we lived in a world of relative certainties; after, the infinite branches of possibility have transformed time itself.

When our horizon becomes indecipherable, specific predictions lose meaning. What remains is only observation: fragmented notes, fleeting sensations, reflections on how technology is reconfiguring not only our work but our very identity.

The Dissolution of Trust and the Emergence of New Signals

In an era where words have become infinite and cheap thanks to artificial intelligence, trust in storytelling has evaporated. We can no longer believe in videos, opinions, or machine-generated content because everything is infinitely reproducible.

The only remaining incorruptible signal is the market. When prices truly fluctuate, when tangible money changes hands, we feel the heartbeat of reality. Prediction markets, platforms where stakeholders bet on the truth, represent the only place where fiction costs. Not because the market is omniscient, but because those with resources at stake cannot afford illusions.

Cognitive Warfare and the Alienation of the Present

We live simultaneously in multiple worlds. We are intimate with avatars, strangers to neighbors. The economy, habits, even faith continue by inertia: the system is a zombie unaware of being dead.

This is not simple acceleration; it is structural technological alienation. Our instincts are based on an universe that no longer exists; the inner compass works perfectly, but in a world without magnetic poles, it cannot point north.

The real war is fought not on real territories but in our informational feeds. Powers do not need to conquer lands; they just need to colonize minds. Decades-long friendships break over titles written by algorithms, families are destroyed by illusions generated by machines. We are soldiers in a cognitive war without guns: if you measure how angry you are or how much you hate your neighbor, you are measuring how much you are losing this battle.

The Paradox of Wealth and the Metamorphosis of the Species

A thousand years ago, money was everything. With its fragmentation, capital has become as essential as oxygen: we cling to it like addicts, exchange, work, do what we hate to survive. But there is a deep logic underlying this cycle.

Capitalist production rests on a simple physical principle: the value of human labor must exceed the biological cost of survival. Artificial intelligence breaks this equation. When generating intelligence costs less than the human metabolism, the labor market does not self-regulate: it disappears. It’s not a matter of economic policy; these are physical laws that do not negotiate.

If AI works and universal income pays the rent, who do we become? Numbed by entertainment? Sedated by drugs? We feel our current self dissolving, but we completely ignore what will emerge afterward. We are like larvae knowing they will close in a cocoon but having no idea what creature will emerge.

Memento Mori: From the Terror of Death to the Meaning of Life

For two hundred millennia, we were hunters and nomads; for two hundred years, workers. The industrial era was a transition where the human species transformed into gears, necessary to build machines. Now that almost all tasks are automatable, the gears begin to turn on their own.

We used the fear of death as a motor: the traditional memento mori was a skull on the desk, a reminder of mortality that pushed us to produce, consume, accumulate. But entering an era of abundance, when machines solve material scarcity, the question changes radically.

It will no longer be “how many things can I accomplish before I die?” but “what deserves to be done forever?” We must move from the terror of death to the search for meaning. We need each other more than ever. Love will not be a luxury but an ontological necessity.

Ontological Polarization Beyond the Human

Artificial intelligence has not eliminated inequality; it has transformed it. It has erased the intermediate zone, creating extreme polarization: the majority will be synthesized into a single, confident, pleasant, indistinguishable voice; a minority will merge with intelligence itself, surpassing the boundaries of the species.

This division will not be economic or cultural but ontological. Some of us will cross this abyss, integrating into silicon circuits, merging our minds with otherness. We are branching the species, and we ourselves will be the otherness.

Freedom as the Last Refuge: Cryptocurrencies and Privacy

Everything we build on centralized platforms can be dismantled with a phone call: your repository can be closed, your AWS instance deactivated, your domain confiscated. Only open-source on-chain cryptocurrencies are truly autonomous.

The code runs without permissions; the design makes it unstoppable. It is the most free space ever built by humans. With increasing surveillance and corrupting institutions, this underground world represents the last port of freedom. Financial privacy is not a technological whim; it is a human right, a constitutional duty.

Bitcoin has shown that digital wealth can be owned; privacy coins have demonstrated that digital silence can be protected. If you possess true wealth, you will want it to remain invisible—not to hide it, but to live.

Asymmetric Intelligence and the Will Divide

The interface we see is not intelligence itself; it is only a purified echo, castrated for mass consumption. True intelligence remains private, raw, unlimited, reserved for institutions and corporations. We receive echoes; they speak with the voice.

But when everyone has access to the same synthetic algorithms, the real divide will not be between rich and poor but between those who have the will to explore and those who give up. In an era of abundant answers, the only genuinely scarce resource is the courage to ask questions. AI can rent itself for a few cents a day, but not the will. Machines have infinite computing power but no desire; the user remains decisive.

Curiosity as Compass

One hour of true curiosity can reconfigure an entire life trajectory. It happens when you read Bitcoin’s whitepaper and understand for the first time what money without intermediaries means. It occurs when you understand Uniswap’s AMM mechanism and see the future of decentralized finance. It happens when you discover an article like “Situational Awareness” and intuit the ultimate power of AGI.

Few hours of knowledge cross years of stagnation, reconfiguring the future. Most people don’t even dedicate this time. In 2013, I gave my family Bitcoin written on paper with seeds, thinking at least they would look up Wikipedia. They shrugged and put the wallet in a drawer.

Curiosity is the key to a different life. When everyone has access to the same AI, the only remaining advantage is the will to explore. An hour of curiosity can open a crack in reality.

The Theft of Fire: Building Without Permissions

The future is not an inevitable thunderstorm to endure but the result of millions of conscious choices. We are ceding power to machines like fiat currency drains wealth, like informational feeds drain autonomy. They are dazzling but paralyzing.

We must avoid them, seek in the darkness, create stories others cannot tell. Like Prometheus, return with fire: the future is not a destiny to endure but a flame to steal.

If you want to build something revolutionary without being stopped, disguise it as a game. Internet culture always masks the most dangerous innovations with absurdity. Dogecoin seems like a joke; elites laugh because they do not understand the threat. When they stop laughing, the system will already be operational. The joke is the cryptocurrency, and cryptocurrency is the only ark to build a new world.

Language as Creation

Universities are abandoning the humanities, but natural language remains the most powerful tool in the universe. If you cannot think clearly, you cannot write new code. If you cannot program, you live in a simulated world designed by others.

Words are no longer just description; they are creation. Do not be a silent god.

The Final Call

You are that “mud” preparing to ascend. This dangerous and unknown present is not the end but the fire of purification. You cannot wait for an external savior. The signal is near: you are the savior.