If you’ve read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince , you probably remember the businessman on the fourth planet. He was so busy counting stars that he didn’t even look up when the Prince arrived. "Five hundred and one million, six hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-one," he muttered, obsessed with "possessing" things he couldn’t even touch. If we drop this Businessman into 2025, he wouldn’t be using a paper ledger. He’d be sitting in a dark room with three monitors, obsessing over Bitcoin charts, Instagram reach, and Big Data. This is why his story serves as a crucial warning for our digital age. 1. Data is the New "Golden Stuff." The Businessman called stars "little golden things that make lazy people dream." Today, we have our own version: Likes, Followers, and Impressions. We hoard digital data like it’s gold. We feel "rich" when our follower count goes up, but just like the Businessman, we often do...
They are unlikely to ever disappear. There are millions of problems in one individual. The biggest flaw of a person is to constantly look for reasons for his problems in someone or something; this is already the biggest problem for the individual. This behavior creates a chain reaction, similar to falling dominoes. Especially if you use up your energy in this direction. Over time, your energy returns to you like a boomerang. It goes back to him. No matter how educated he is, eventually a problem comes to him, and he, struggling to protect himself, becomes a participant in it. Regardless of whether he is calm or indifferent, he must take a side depending on the circumstances. Everyone knows that there is already one god, but it is perceived differently in different languages. Because of the ways of the prophets, division is a fact. The one problem that is not known may take another thousand years to solve. The other big problem is the different colors of people's skin. While the col...