We constantly hear politicians talking about the "multiple crises" of our time: geopolitical conflicts, climate breakdown, shrinking resources. But what is the root cause? My explanation: a few hundred years ago, our species discovered fossil fuels and invented technologies that launched us into exponential scientific and technical growth. Yet the vast majority of humanity remained biologically and socially stuck at an earlier stage of evolution. We now live in hyper-complex, artificial constructs that no longer feel anything like our natural habitat.
Scrolling through my newsfeed, I see this disconnection play out daily through concrete products and tech rivalries:On one side, the AI and hardware industry is exploding. Alphabet/Google reported a profit jump of over 80% in its Cloud business, heavily driven by the global AI boom. New hardware like the Google Book floods the market, Logitech launches a mouse with a dedicated AI button, and software giants leapfrog each other every week: whether it's Google's Gemini 4 Argon, Project Astra, or ChatGPT-6 Astra—these models are locked in an aggressive race for dominance. On the streets, autonomous mobility is crowding in: Chinese automaker XPeng officially launched its "XPeng Yoyo" robotaxi to compete directly with Alphabet's Waymo and Uber. Elon Musk blasts thousands more Starlink satellites into orbit, while tech giants even attempt to store data and compute infrastructure in space.
This digital frenzy has very real, destructive consequences on Earth. In Finland, 150 new datacenters are planned, consuming enough energy to supply over 2.2 million people. In Muhos, Finland, Google bulldozed over 300 hectares of forest—completely recklessly, without completed environmental impact assessments, forcing authorities to issue a construction halt. Tech giants are simply grabbing European territory and nature to feed their server farms.
On the other side stands raw human tragedy: in Gaza, people are killed daily; brutal wars rage in the Donbas and Yemen; and more and more refugees desperately try to reach "Fortress Europe" because life at home has become unbearable.
All of this points to one sobering truth: as a species, we are completely overwhelmed. We are utterly incapable of connecting our technological achievements with basic human empathy and values.
