Becoming a Conscious Technologist
How technology shaped our unconscious use of it
Human beings have been practicing unconscious use of technology since the 1900s.
From mindless watching in front of television screens during the 1940s, to mindless scrolling on mini-televisions (our phones) in the 2020s. This has been multi-generational “weight training” of the ultimate biological LLM: our brains.
With modern AI, the tools and models are taking it to new heights — because it allows our devices to “speak back” to us in a way previous machines never did. You ask it a question at 2am, and for a half-second, something in the response makes you feel like the machine knows you better than the person sleeping next to you. Not because it does. But because you’ve been carrying questions no one in your life knows how to ask you back.
And the machine — for the first time — seems to be listening. Which means the unconscious act didn’t disappear. It just found a more convincing partner.
So the question today isn’t whether AI is conscious or not. What’s more important is whether we are — while using it.
That question is what drove me to create this whole movement around the idea of a “Conscious Technologist” (CT). For those who want to proactively do something about the way we’ve become unconscious users of tech — so that we become more conscious as humans, not less.
This is why I am committed to training 144,000 conscious technologists. For a specific group of people who see the future that’s forming, can hold the depth between tech and consciousness, and want to be part of bringing full awareness back to the tech we use daily — without having to give it all up.
Starting August 4, I’m running the very first cohort of Become a Conscious Technologist over on Maven.com. It’s an 8-week accelerator oscillator program just for you. Not a course about ideas. A real practice to start redesigning your tech stack, work rhythm, and relationship with technology — before the AI tech companies redesign you, one token at a time. For full details — format, weekly practices, what you’ll leave with — check out the program page.
Are you ready to become a Conscious Technologist of the future?
Speak soon,
— Siosi