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| C. Gray "The Neverending Dreamer" |
An interesting accurate prediction was made exactly one year ago.
However, before we discuss it, let's review some historical astrology background in this regard, involving the analysis of significant trends in American life based on the major periods of the SAMVA USA chart.
First, in the article 1972, the Mercury major period of the SAMVA USA chart was described. It began in April 1972, and was accompanied by the personal computer revolution.
"The Mercury period brought technological advances ushering in hand held calculators and the technology that became the basis of the home computer and the internet."
See: (June 2010)
Interestingly, Mercury is the general indicator of analytics, high tech and students. The major innovators were young college drop outs. This is more so as the 5th house of the chart also rules university education, creativity, intelligence and young people. Jupiter, a general indicator for young people, is in the 5th house. Mars the general indicator of industry, is also there. Both these planets mutually aspect Moon, as 1st lord of self in the 11th house of goals, alliances and income, giving world class innovations and advances.
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TECH INNOVATORS
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| Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs, Apple Computer |
The Apple Computer company brought its personal computer (PC) to the market in 1977.
Apple Inc., originally named Apple Computer, Inc., was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to market Wozniak's Apple I desktop computer. Jobs and Wozniak incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, in Cupertino, California.
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| Paul Allen & Bill Gates, Microsoft |
Microsoft was an earlier software leader of microcomputers. The company was founded on April 4, 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Its original purpose was to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 computer.
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EARLY TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
The first microcomputer, the Altair 8800, was based on a semiconductor chip.
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| Altair 8800 microcomputer |
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer was designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics and was sold by mail order through advertisements there, in Radio-Electronics, and in other hobbyist magazines. The Altair is widely recognized as the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution as the first commercially successful personal computer. Only 25,000 units were sold by mail order.
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| Intel 8080 chip |
In turn, Intel 8080 CPU had its origins in the first commercially available semiconductor chips, dating back to 1972. They were based on the integrated circuit (IC) technology patented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1958.
"Ed Roberts had designed and manufactured programmable calculators and was familiar with the microprocessors available in 1974. He thought the Intel 4004 and Intel 8008 were not powerful enough (in fact several microcomputers based on Intel chips were already on the market: the Canadian company Microsystems International's CPS-1 built-in 1972 used a MIL MF7114 chip modeled on the 4004, the Micral marketed in January 1973 by the French company R2E and the MCM/70 marketed in 1974 by the Canadian company Micro Computer Machines); the National Semiconductor IMP-8 and IMP-16 required external hardware; the Motorola 6800 was still in development. So he chose the 8-bit Intel 8080 [for the Altair 8800 microcomputer]."
The point is that a major technological breakthrough occurred for ordinary Americans at the start of the Mercury Major period.
MAINFRAMES AND THE SPACE RACE
Second, in the prior Saturn period large mainframe computers were developed based on the nascent IC technology and sold by IBM to big corporations, government agencies, including NASA and major universities. These technological advances drove the space race of the 1960s, giving the USA a clear lead and victory as the Saturn major period neared its end.
See: (Sept. 2009)
See: (April 2014)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BREAKTHROUGH
In November 2022, the same year that the Moon major period began in the SAMVA USA chart, we witnessed another major revolution, the Chat GPT-4 Artificial Intelligence bot became publicly accessible on the Internet. The Moon is a general indicator of both mind and the public.
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| Sam Altman/Greg Brockman |
ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are leaders at the company, which has built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 families of large language models (LLMs). They have been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.
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This technology will revolutionise the jobs market, such that individuals crammed with book knowledge, typically PhD's, will become increasingly redundant in making sense of things or in making projections for the future based on their knowledge and computer models, etc..
As in earlier decades, the productivity of human activity will rise and with it overall welfare, if the gains are evenly shared.
ACCURATE PREDICTION
In the April 2022 article, New Age of Progress, it was proposed that there might be some breakthrough for the mind. It was phrased as an "enhancement of mind" and it suggested the popular spread of meditiation.
"ENHANCEMENT OF MIND
One interesting possibility for the Moon major period is that meditation becomes a popular daily practice. If so, it would infuse the public sentiments with more clarity as to what is important in life. It could be noted that such practices are not based on religious belief, rather, they simply improve the mental clarity, emotional stability and overall quality of life, by infusing it with an inherent loving vibe.
Since the late 19th century, many famous Indian yogis, like Vivekananda, Paramahansa Yogananda, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Meher Baba, Ramana Maharshi, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Sathya Sai Baba, Anandamurthi, Amma, and Sadhguru, have either travelled to the USA to teach the practices, sent their emissaries, or received students from the West in India. The Tibetan exile, Dalai Lama, has also supported this culturual change. The internet now enables all access to such ancient self-realisation practices from living masters."
See: (Apr. 2022)
While the introduction of AI is not the same as meditation, we now see that it may open up the scope for humanity to develop further its experience of life on a massive scale and for this meditation is indispensable. Humans can do things machines cannot and these things point the way to future schooling and development. Indeed, that seems to be the rational response to such a technological advance, that it creates scope to liberate human beings from cramming their heads full with knowledge and instead develop more their consciousness. Computers with AI can perform intellectual tasks better than humans. Instead, humans can focus on making their minds and bodies subservient to their sense of being, of being alive and in tune with the creation. As such their innate intelligence will flourish. If so, the prediction for an "enhancement of the mind" in the Moon period is coming true.
The yogic master Sadhguru explains this well.
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P.S. Sadhguru earlier gave insights on how to deal with AI some 6 years ago.
"What Does Artificial Intelligence’s Growth Mean for Humanity?
What does the evolution of artificial intelligence mean for humanity? Sadhguru discusses in this musing.
ArticleNov 3, 2017
Q: Sadhguru, you spoke about making the right priorities so that we are available to truth in life situations. Our societies across the world are pursuing artificial intelligence at a swift rate, from labs at IIT and Stanford, to companies like IBM and Google. Do you think AI is a good priority for humanity to pursue, given its power to bring about new discoveries and productivity? Does it have the potential to enhance human life and make truth mainstream?
Sadhguru: Any intelligence is good. If you do not have natural intelligence, then artificial; if you do not have organic intelligence, then synthetic. But any intelligence is good if it is intelligence. Suppose the walls in your house turned out to be intelligent ones, is it not fantastic? The only thing is, if they get smarter than you, you may feel a little insecure! Otherwise, having a lot of intelligent things around you is a great blessing.
Only somebody who wants to be the smartest person around will feel insecure if all the things around him become smarter than him. Otherwise, it is such a blessing. If you had a pen which could write what you want without you touching it, if there was a phone that would say what you want to say without you having to say it, would it not be nice? Any intelligence is good.
Without intelligence, there is no truth. Lies have not always happened because of deceit. Lies have also happened because of ignorance. Intelligence, intelligence and intelligence is the only solution to make truth mainstream.
The Robots are Coming!
Especially, as external technologies grow, suppose robots start doing all the work you are doing now, what are human beings going to do? They are already talking about robots that will win the football world cup by 2050.
Your thoughts and emotions are also something that can be artificially created. Some time ago, some researchers set up a computer to test how people can have relationships with computers. Many people had a wonderful relationship with this computer over email, not knowing that it was a computer. And it was managing this with twenty lines of vocabulary.
Technology is moving in a direction where artificially, a computer will be able to think a million times better than human beings, because thought is fundamentally computing. Data is assimilated and then it comes out with something sensible from that. As computers evolve, a computer will be able to do this far better than a human being. This evolution is not even going to take a very long time. It will happen in a short time. Then there will be no value for human thought. All the thinkers will be out of business!
But that is only intelligence. That is not consciousness. Our thought, our emotion, these have nothing to do with consciousness. Once everything is well, what are human beings supposed to do? Human beings are supposed to be joyful, blissful and do something that no mechanical thing can do. A robot can do everything that you can do – except it cannot meditate because there is no consciousness. So, ultimately, only meditators will be employed!"
