Odds are good that either you or someone close to you are hurting financially. This could be due to the recent Coronavirus outbreak, or perhaps your job was a casualty of the Automation Revolution. However you got here, you're here. This article is for you.

Around the world, 77% of people live in some form of multidimensional poverty. Many are the victims of climate change—recently homeless due to drought, wildfires, and political unrest. Many have simply been born into poor conditions. Many live in areas that were once prosperous, but have become depressed for a variety of reasons.

People living in poverty have an abundance of untapped wisdom. A young man named Yusuff in Sierra Leone barely earns $5 per day, but he has a wealth of knowledge on football. Fatima in Afghanistan works 3 jobs to earn enough to feed her son, but she has a passion for chemistry and hopes to someday put her knowledge to use and finish her masters.

All around the world, men and women are struggling to get by, yet they harbor untold riches—facts and figures, intuitions, feelings, passions, and experiences. They are writers and thinkers, passionate creators and geeks. They're sports fans, film buffs, musicians, technicians, and artists. But an immeasurable amount of their knowledge, wisdom, and intellectual skill goes unshared. Their path is one of suffering, trapped within the harsh realities of poverty.

Introducing a Different Way of Thinking

Imagine a different kind of world with me. In this world, every human is an entrepreneur. In this world, every person has a phone with internet, and they use it to monetize their own knowledge on everything from news and sports to theoretical physics and biology. Everything anyone knows is shared with the wider world, and each individual is paid for their contribution.

What might such a network allow us to accomplish? Researchers merge their minds into hives of activity—breaking down the hardest problems in minutes. Scientists seeking cures get the very best information from the world's brightest minds. Students learn from those in the field. Information flows freely and anonymously with no regard to status or class. Car mechanics ask questions and CEOs provide the answers. Everyone and everything they know is valued by someone.

A network like this is the solution we've been looking for—the solution to automation replacing our jobs, and depressions destroying our business prospects. A human superintelligence network comprised of hiveminds. A Hivenet.

It's 2027. This is Ian.

Ian is an Australian refugee from a wildfire that burned up his home. The surrounding towns have become depressed and Ian is having trouble finding a job while he looks for a new place to live. Luckily he still has his smartphone and can get online when he finds free internet hotspots.

At a coffee shop along the way, Ian encounters another refugee named Fiona. Fiona is using a phone app to earn an income while she travels. It provides enough income to improve her life. She gets a notification and offers to show Ian how it works.

She plays a short multiplayer game with a group of people who share her interest in ecology. The group puts their minds together and comes up with a good answer to a question about how the recent outbreak in wildfires might impact the local ecology. The game ends, and Fiona is rewarded.

She explains that she just got paid for the answer she helped with, and she would also earn residual income as the answer is bought and used by others in the future. By playing this game every day, she is creating numerous new streams of income. Ian decides to download the app and give it a try.

Within a day, he has answered three questions and is earning money. Within a week, he has answered all kinds of questions based on his interests and skills. He’s earned enough to start making a noticeable improvement to his quality of life, and he feels like this simple game is helping him make a difference in the world.

The year isn’t 2027. It’s 2020, but this could be our future.





Come Build This Future With Me

Myself and a team of other idealists have been shaping this future since the fall of 2018 and we are making tremendous progress. If you would like to join the project and play a part in solving poverty, please check out our Patreon and consider supporting our cause. If you want to join the project and work on it with us, please reach out to me directly. We welcome everyone regardless of skillset because we believe everyone has something important to offer.

Thanks for reading and see you in the future.

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