2026: Will technology liberate or destroy humanity?

The first half of 2025, a strange feeling returns. For thirty years, the future seemed predictable—work, income, life all following a clear trajectory. But suddenly, everything changes. The branches of the future are blocked, no one knows exactly what will happen.

It’s not panic, but an acknowledgment that predictions have become useless.

We have entered the Silicon era

If we had to lock in a date, it would be 11/30/2022—when history was split in two. Everything before that was like the “Pre-Body,” everything after is the “Silicon Era.” Humanity no longer belongs to the 21st century but has entered a new game.

The first sign: Content is no longer trustworthy

Cheap writing, fake videos everywhere, AI-generated voices. When images and text can no longer prove themselves, there is only one signal that remains unmanipulated: market prices. It is the honest voice from every click, every spending decision. Therefore, in 2025, smart people use market data as the basis for truth.

The second sign: Human instincts are disoriented

Keyboard, screens, push notifications— we live in a simulated world inverted from the outside world. Families break apart because of algorithms, friends become strangers due to machine-written headlines. Our old world—where we grew up, learned, loved—is now just a “zombie” moving by inertia, weakening hour by hour.

We are not preparing for the future; we are trapped in a prison of constant replacement every second.

AI breaks all economic rules

The long-standing world is built on a premise: the value of human labor must be higher than biological costs to survive. A person needs 2000-2500 calories daily to live, so their work value must exceed that.

Then AI appears and completely destroys it.

A large language model can write articles, code, design—all at a fraction of the energy cost compared to human calorie consumption. At that point, the labor market does not “self-correct”—it will vanish.

We debate economic policies, but the laws of physics do not argue with you. Whether you agree or not, reality will resolve itself.

The departure of the teachers

Before the internet, knowledge was sacred. To learn a skill, you had to drive to town, sit at the feet of a master, receive experience from soul to soul.

We respected them.

Now, knowledge is abundant, free, and ready. ChatGPT answers faster than a teacher. MIT publicly offers their courses. The wise around us become old potted plants on a shelf.

But that is not progress—it’s emptiness.

The world divides into two tiers

We confuse tools with power. When everyone marvels at what can be explored through their phones, real power is happening behind invisible walls.

Information is divided into two layers:

• Public layer: filtered, safe, “castrated” for retail investors, ordinary people.
• Private layer: original, unrestricted, reserved for organizations and companies.

You see the echoes. They converse with real sound.

When AI erases human boundaries

AI does not just replace jobs—it erases the divide between those who gain enhancement and those left behind.

Most will integrate with a single voice: safe, comfortable, non-threatening, but also non-committal.

A minority—those who integrate technology, embed with silicon chips, think in machine language—will transcend. They will be a different species. Not evolution, but a branching of humanity.

Crypto: the last narrow door

As surveillance intensifies, as GitHub is locked, AWS shut down, domains revoked by a phone call, only open-source crypto on-chain still runs without permission.

Code is law. Design is immutable. No court order can stop it.

This is the last free port, where financial privacy is a constitutional duty, a silent act of resistance. Bitcoin proves you can own digital money. Privacy coins prove you can own silent money.

It’s not about wealth or poverty—it’s about existence.

Courage is the only scarce resource

You can hire intelligence for $0.66 a day. Machines have unlimited capacity. Language models can code, design, create content.

But no one can sell you willpower.

When everyone can use the same tools, the only difference is the user—what drives them to act when everyone is allowed to ask questions?

The new abyss is not wealth or poverty—it’s between those with motivation and those who give up.

In an era full of answers, the only scarce resource is the will to ask questions.

Dreamers stacking up

At Founders Inc, young programmers use laptops to create things that ten years ago required labs and millions of dollars.

Internet, open source, AI, 3D printing, cheap hardware—all combined like DeFi Lego. Code merges with code, creating a new financial surface.

Tools are not the limit. Courage is.

Crypto is the Trojan horse

Internet culture always disguises the most dangerous innovations with a silly appearance.

Dogecoin. Cartoon avatars. Memes.

Elites laugh because they don’t understand the threat inside. By the time they realize, the system is already running.

That joke is crypto— the only way to build Noah’s Ark when the rain pours down.

Curiosity is the only thing that can save you

An hour of curiosity is enough to change the trajectory of a life.

Read the Bitcoin whitepaper. Understand Uniswap’s AMM mechanism. Consume an article about AGI. Each time, 24 hours of content can reshape 13 years of future.

But most people never take the time. They shrug and toss their wallets into a drawer.

Curiosity is the key to a different life. When everyone has access to AI, the only advantage left is willingness to explore.

Remember, you must love

When resources are scarce, the fear of death drives growth. When technology solves production problems, when you no longer need to rush, questions will change.

No more “how much can I do before I die?”

But “what is worth doing forever?”

We need each other more than ever. The phrase “remember, you will die” becomes “remember, you must love”.

You are Prometheus

The future is not a disaster—it is the grinding of millions of human choices every second.

We gradually delegate authority to machines. Just as fiat money drains assets, the flow of information drains your autonomy.

They are brilliant but paralyze you.

Groping in the dark. Exploring. Creating. Then returning like Prometheus with fire.

Bringing tools. Bringing stories others cannot tell.

The future is not a destiny to endure—it is a fire to be stolen.