Using Technology as a Spiritual Practice with Mikey Siegel
“What if we started to design technology as a tool for profound positive transformation?”~Mikey Siegel
Mikey Siegel began his journey working with robots with companies like NASA, MIT, and Audi. A search for meaning took Mikey’s passion for tech to a whole new level in “Conscious Hacking.”
What is this new path of Transformative Technology?
I sat down with Mikey to learn how technology can transform our lives and eradicate human suffering from the inside out.
This new field is a work in progress, and we are ready to go beyond the scope of meditation apps…
“I think that what you will see, as this process continues, is that you will have technologies that begin to be a lot more innovative. They begin to actually know more about what is happening inside your body and inside of your brain and the interfaces begin to look a lot different. It’s no longer just apps on your phone; it may be devices you actually wear, measuring the rhythms of your heart, measuring your brainwave patterns, measuring your breathing…”
Development is going from apps that simply serve as a reminder to meditate and take better care of ourselves to technology that gives intuitive, specialized, real-time feedback. We have the potential to achieve greater results in a shorter period of time, by combining technology with more traditional practices.
Mikey Siegel is personally working towards tech tools that bring people together. He says that we need to start asking,
“How can we use technology to foster a deep sense of ‘felt’ connection?”
This connection and awareness affects us personally, and then spreads out into our external world in a positive way. “Our own internal process of finding a sense of peace and well-being is not just about us. It’s actually something that affects everyone around us. And as we change, as we gain in self-awareness, that whole process seeps out into the world.”
Join us for a conversation about tech, consciousness, and hacking–yeah, all at once with this week’s episode of Change Maker!
Audio Play.It http://www1.play.it/audio/change-maker-with-zhena-muzyka/
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/change-maker-zhena-muzyka/id951166221?mt=2
You can also learn more about Mikey Siegel’s work on his website at http://mikeysiegel.com
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