About Steven Vincent

Let me share a little bit about myself and why I originated The Singularity Project and what I hope to accomplish.

BACKGROUND

In my earlier days, I trained as an actor and acted in local theatre and small films. At the same time I became an early adopter of the digital media revolution. I owned and operated early digital cameras and editing systems and became skilled in Avid, Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Photoshop and worked as a professional headshot photographer, videographer, editor and “Digital Media Artist” with my small business, “Digital Universe Productions”. I produced corporate videos from concept to completion and worked for several corporate video production companies. Combining my passions and talents, I wrote, acted, directed, edited and produced my own short films and contributed these talents to the films of others.

I got into Yoga and Meditation and became a lifelong practitioner and teacher of the ancient yogic arts. As a Yogi, I led meditational Peacewalks, hosted group “kirtan” musical chant events and participated in a trip to Mount Kailash in Tibet and lived and worked in several spiritual communities in California.

Since 2009, I’ve written and published a subscription blog on economics and the technical conditions of the financial markets. My work as the Publisher and Analyst of “The BullBear Market Report” engaged and sharpened my research and analytical skills and built on my college education in Economics.

I have a personal passion for personal health and fitness and I maintain an active, athletic lifestyle and a vegetarian and probiotic diet.

Throughout my life I have always maintained a deep intellectual interest in the origins and nature of the Universe and the evolution of life and humanity. This intense curiosity has combined with the wide-ranging experience of my varied life path to lead me to founding The Singularity Project.

GOALS

My goal is to help humanity navigate the transition from our current stage of evolution into the emerging new world through innovative thought and engaging story.

My scientific and philosophical research formulates novel theory and analysis that explores the intersection of Human and Artificial Intelligence. I feel that this is important and necessary work on the bleeding edge that is critical to humanity’s successful transition to a new and better world. It’s very challenging to trail blaze, but when the path forward leads into the unknown, it has to be done.

As an economist I recognize the challenges that people will be facing as the economy is completely transformed in the coming years. Current economic theory is woefully inadequate to the task of orienting our responses to the approaching disruptions. The Singularity Project will work to revolutionize our understanding and approach to economics that is directly applicable to the emerging new era.

As the author of the “Singularity” universe of near-future sci-fi media, including several screenplays and short stories, I write rich narratives that delve deeply into the new world that is unfolding before us now. For me, writing and creating are an integral part of the process of life and personal development.

I’m looking forward to continuing the work that I have begun with a growing circle of visionary professionals that recognize its significance and necessity and want to be part of realizing.

We are moving into a new era in which we will measure the value of our lives not by what we have taken and accumulated but rather by what we have given and contributed.

Economics and Markets

Since 2008, Steven Vincent has published “The BullBear Market Report” to private subscribers.

For some years now, it has been Steven’s analysis that we have already entered a post-capitalist economic regime. The predominance of debt monetarism means that, functionally, capital no longer drives the national and global economies. Current economic activity is primarily driven by future value brought forward into the present through debt. Debt does not represent current value; it represents the potential for future value. Since capital is value generated from the transformation of diverse inputs into a functional increase in new use value, the system can no longer be considered capitalist.

Debt monetarism is, however, merely a transitional stage. It is a massive bet on the future. It is a gamble that we will be able to borrow from the future to bootstrap the exponential growth of current value generation. Will this wager pay out?

If Artificial Intelligence and its associated technologies is successful, then a fundamentally new economics based on Intelligence will be born. There are strong reasons to think that this is, in fact, in its nascent stages now. The economic flywheel of Data-Information-Intelligence will spin, exponentially increasing the generation of new economic value and producing a fundamental transformation of society and the world.

If, on the other hand, the AI technological revolution is somehow aborted, then the global economy will collapse under the weight of the unsustainable debt burden and the promised future will not be realized. A descent into war, chaos and darkness is a real possibility in that scenario.

So economically, humanity is at a very real crossroads. We can progress into a bright, new future based on Intelligence Economics, or we can cling to past models that have already exhausted themselves and risk falling into a new Dark Age.

One of the deciding factors is the extent to which we can conceptualize this reality and the choices that it poses. This includes the ability to understand the nature of economics in terms of the general principle of Entropy as well as the rigorous description of the principles of Intelligence Economics.

Continuing to regularly issue analysis on financial market and economic conditions to orient investors and traders

Analyze labor market conditions in relationship to the technological revolution and propose strategies for a successful transition to a fully AI-driven economy, including public and private policies for “Universal Basic Income” and other support mechanisms.

Develop the fundamental theory of Entropy Economics so that the future of economic development can be properly contextualized

Develop the fundamental theoretical and operational principles of Intelligence Economics to guide and shape the new emergent economy

Through a mix of public and subscriber-only content, we will help our readers to prosper and prepare for the dramatic changes that are in progress. And we will be at the forefront of forging the new modes of thinking required to understand and cope with the new economic reality as it develops.