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Over the weekend one of my blog posts was heavily spammed by…bots? AI? Real random humans? Malware? Who knows. I just know NOT to click the link provided in the comments because while it was most likely something innocuous and crypto related, there’s always the chance that it wasn’t (and I have no desire to explain my internet usage to law enforcement).

This comes after having watched this video about the Death of the Internet which is very much in line with what my Projector/HSP/Empath spidey senses have been picking up since Pluto moved into Aquarius (the planet of death and transformation in the sign of AI, tech, and humanity…what could go wrong!)

Add to that Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, moving into Gemini in July. The planetary ruler of AI, tech and humanity who’s known to be rebellious and chaotic rolling into the sign that rules communication until 2033? While Pluto is gutting out anything related to those topics not built on a solid foundation? Laissez le bon temps rouler as they say. And by “let the good times roll”, I mean this meme of the girl smiling in front of the burning house. 

Must We Always Take it to 11? 

There’s a scene in the movie Spinal Tap (which I admittedly haven’t seen the whole of but I did work for someone who quoted it regularly so I figure that counts) about how the band’s amps go to 11. Did they refine their volume settings? Nope, they added more and went to 11.

I feel like this is a perfect metaphor for humans and tech. Instead of enhancing and refining what we have, we just cannot NOT take it to 11 (and beyond).

I cannot watch a video on YouTube without some ad trying to sell me on learning AI tools to become unstoppable (and in only 30 days!). To make six-figures while cleaning my cat’s litter box. To become the most sought-after human being since D.B. Cooper.

Instagram is pretty much the same. I am rarely on it, except to check DMs a few times a week because it’s become the digitized version of those Valpak coupon mailers. It’s just selling after selling after selling. Make six-figures doing digital marketing! Use AI to grow your business/write your content/solve your sagging butt!  

What was once a place for humans to hang out has become a bloated and unwieldy site of too much tech and too little humanity. 

Where Have All the Humans Gone? 

If I were a betting woman (and despite my love affair with Las Vegas, I am not), I would stack my Benjamins not on the death of the internet per se, but on the collapse of a lot of sites as we know them and the reckoning of how used by technology we’ve been. 

I see a reinvention; what specifically that looks like, I do not know. But I do know that what we currently have going on is unsustainable. We took it to 11 when we should have stopped at 10 (or even seven).

Humans do not do well when exposed to copious amounts of tech on a day to day basis. There’s been links to depression, anxiety, etc. but at the most simple level, we’re designed for community and true connection with each other. Not devices. 

Humans are, by nature, inherently creative beings. And while I love that tools like AI and other technologies can help people who have lost the ability to create art physically, to type or write on their own, etc. for many people we’ve outsourced our light, our je ne sais quoi, our soul led purpose to ChatGPT et al. A bunch of tech written and presided over by tech bros.

And for what? Oversimplified content that’s so generic you’d think it was written by…a machine (or worse, Mark Zuckerberg). 

The future isn’t AI. It’s Humans. Always has been, always will be. 

So get out your notebooks and colored pencils. Go out in the wild. Look people in the eye and smile. Write and publish your messy stories, thoughts, and let your never-to-be-duplicated-by-technology imagination run wild. 

Because we’re at the precipice where that kind of life is about to make a huge comeback. 

Tech is helpful but raw humanity is what powers the world. 

Hugs, 

Elena (who wrote this entire mess minus any help from AI and also turned off all the comments on her blogs because, well, spam!)