If capitalism is a pregnancy, we are in labor. Our ways of being -- the ways we have used money, technology and each other -- have been so unsustainable up to this point, but they may not have all been in vain. We’ve reached the 9-month threshold -- an inflection point -- and now we’re about to deliver a child.

The issues we face as a human species are far too complex and entangled for any one person to comprehend. The information terrain is certainly bumpy, and it’s only getting bumpier. We might look around this strange new world and realize there are places, nooks and crannies our eyes can’t reach, so we must reach out to one another to grasp its contours.

Organic, autonomous, collective. Our intuitive and sensemaking abilities have atrophied. How can we make better sense of a complex world if not through collectivity?

As social and environmental issues grow increasingly dire, let us ask ourselves, if it's possible to modify Minecraft's code, in what ways can we hack our real socio-economic systems and create pockets of alternate realities in which everyone can thrive?

Looking at how today’s technology exploits nature, I wondered what modern technology might look like if it were instead developed through more “eastern” or “archaic” spiritual sensibilities and relationship with nature.

Saving our planet requires a revolution within ourselves – a paradigm shift in thinking – from separateness to connectedness.