Establishing OUR Meridian

because an algorithmic world demands a human core

In the traditional script of life, at 75, this is the chapter where I am supposed to have retreated—stepped back, to become invisible, and let the future happen to other people. But I look into the future—this rushing tide of Artificial Intelligence—and I realise: WE ALL NEED TO STEP IN.

We are constantly told we must choose between our humanity and our technology—that they are opposing forces. But as an institution builder, I have learned that binaries are a trap. The future is not “either/or.” It is Both/And it is play and discover possibilities. We absolutely need the speed and reach of these new digital tools, but we need the human heart to remember how and why to use them.

I am not an AI expert. I am an expert in being human.

My “Analogue Intelligence”—slowness, subtraction, and wisdom—is not the opposite of Artificial Intelligence. It is the counterbalance. AI, the algorithm, is an engine of pure addition; it accumulates and fills every silence with digital noise. But human wisdom is subtractive. To be human is to subtract. It is to create the pause between notes; the visual quiet; negative space in a painting; the intuition to look at an endless digital buffet and take only what we actually need.

For a long time, I thought humanity and technology were a “Double Helix”—two separate strands twisting around each other, never touching. But standing here today, I see it differently. It is a Möbius Loop. There is only one surface. We are not leaving humanity behind; we are circling back to it with new tools.

I am establishing The Meridian to stand at the twist in that loop. A meridian is a navigational constant—not a bunker to hide in, but a map to read by. It is a place to anchor our “Ancestral Analogue Intelligence.”

Let’s step forward into our future with our humanity intact.

BTW I intend to die before I get old