モビリティの未来の探索
Welcome back to the Deep Dive.
This week, we're hitting week 14 of our look into the future of mobility.
We've been calling it the return of movement.
Yeah, and today's focus is, well, it's a bit different.
We're diving into Episode5 from our source material,
Destination Zero.
Right, Destination Zero.
And this is interesting because we're not in the future anymore, are we?
Exactly. This is the pivot.
Episodes 1 to 4, they were all speculative future stuff.
You know, AI, flying cars, the works.
But Destination Zero, it pulls us right back to,
well, basically now, 2025.
It's looking for the seeds, the analog prototype
of all those future ideas we discussed.
Okay, interesting. So, finding the present day roots.
Before we get into the specifics of 2025,
let's maybe tap into a feeling first.
For you listening, think about that appeal,
that sort of deep pull of a really big journey.
Have you ever thought about doing something like that?
You know, a major bike trip, maybe driving right across Japan,
something challenging.
That urge for the open road, yeah.
It resonates, doesn't it?
And it's funny, you look at social media now,
it's not just the perfect holiday snaps anymore.
You see a lot of young people sharing these really raw,
kind of difficult, self-imposed challenges, adventures.
They're really putting themselves out there, sharing the struggle.
They are. They're actively looking for that friction, that discomfort.
And that ties right back into this whole idea
we've been exploring, doesn't it?
This concept of stagnation.
Precisely.
Direct challenge to being stagnant.
And that connects to the mobility index, the MI,
that measure of life vitality.
Right, the MI score.
See, this kind of journey, it's more than just travel.
It's a statement.
It's saying, I'm not okay with just being maintained
by some perfect, easy system.
We're choosing the bumps in the road.
You are, because that friction,
that's where the growth comes from.
That's where the real wealth, the MI wealth is generated.
That feeling, just being maintained.
タケルと彼の挑戦
That takes us straight to the main character
in this 2025 story, Takeru, right?
That's him, Takeru.
He's 25, living in Tokyo, works remotely.
And he basically describes himself as just stuck.
Total stagnation.
And the source material even gives him
a hypothetical MI score.
Yeah, an implied score of just 28,
which is, I mean, incredibly low.
He feels like he's not really living,
just existing, being maintained.
Okay, so he needs a change, a big one.
He does. He needs to force movement.
So what does he do?
He goes out and buys a used Honda Super Cub.
Ah, Super Cub, like the classic, super reliable,
but really basic little motorbike.
Exactly, no frills.
And then he launches a crowdfunding project
to pay for a big trip on it.
Okay, so the trip itself is the project.
Yeah.
Destination Zero.
But the interesting part is
what he promises the backers, isn't it?
It's not like postcards or T-shirts.
No, not the usual stuff.
That's the genius of it.
His promise, his core declaration to his supporters
was the raw process.
The raw process.
Yeah, all of it.
The rain soaking him through, the bike breaking down,
running out of gas, getting flat tires,
all the screw-ups, the unexpected encounters,
good and bad, and those few rare moments
where, as he put it, his heart truly moved.
So he's basically selling the experience of vulnerability,
the unpredictability of real travel.
He is, monetizing the struggle,
not the polished highlight reel.
And he uses pretty standard tech for this, right?
Crowdfunding platforms, social media.
Right. He sets up a closed community,
like a private group for his backers.
About 30 people join.
And crucially, they're all feeling kind of stagnant, too,
stuck in their city lives.
It's like a support group, but for his movement.
In a way, yeah.
They become stakeholders in his journey.
Takeruの挑戦と共感の力
He basically built, using 2025 tech,
a kind of early analog version
of that future KUFO system we talked about,
the Delegate Travel System.
Ah, okay, I see the link now.
And this is where that idea of the MIProxy extension
comes in, even back then.You got it.
It starts to happen organically.
Takeru is the one actually moving, facing the friction.
His members are the ones stuck at home, feeling stagnant.
So when Takeru shares the hard stuff,
you know, a picture of his drenched sleeping bag,
a message saying, I feel like quitting today,
the members don't just offer sympathy.
What do they do?
They almost demand he keep going.
They're like, Takeru, this is real,
what you're feeling, that struggle.
It's way better than my boring, perfect apartment life.
Keep moving, man.
Wow.
So his physical effort becomes
a kind of substitute experience for them.
Exactly.
It's a surrogate for the movement they want,
but maybe can't have right then.
His physical moving directly impacts their minds.
Okay, so let's break that down.
Takeru's MI is going up
because he's overcoming challenges, right?
Right, he's generating MI through effort,
but the sharing, the empathy from the group
that creates this feedback loop.
His rising MI influences them.
They get this MI overshare,
a vicarious boost just by connecting with his struggle.
MI overshare.
I like that.
Is there a specific example in the story?
Oh, yeah.
There's a great little anecdote.
Takeru gets completely lost somewhere,
finds this tiny, unassuming diner in a fishing village.
He's exhausted, probably miserable,
and he has this incredibly simple meal,
fried fish, ajiifuri,
but it's profound for him in that moment.
He posts about the whole thing,
the getting lost, the kindness of the owner,
how amazing this simple food tasted after everything.
It's a small, real moment.
A tiny moment, but it lands huge.
One of his backers,
this 40-something manager type in Tokyo,
reads it,and he messages back.
He says,
Takeru's story, relying on instinct,
finding something good randomly
instead of planning it all out,
it convinced him.
The next day at work,
he's gonna lead his team based on his gut feeling,
on what tastes good to him,
not just follow the AI's optimal solution
like we saw back in episode three.
Whoa, okay, that's significant.
Takeru's soggy fish dinner
actually changed a business decision miles away.
Basically, yes.
Just through a story shared on a simple network,
it shows the principle works
even without fancy future tech.
MI can be shared,
transferred through empathy and narrative right now.
未来の移動システムの可能性
So the afterward dialogue in the source material
really confirms this then,
that this 2025 story wasn't just a story,
it was proving the concept.
It nails it.
It says,Takeru used existing tools,
crowdfunding social media
to accidentally organically
create the core functions of the future systems,
like the ISAQ delegate idea and MI sharing.
The shift in the inner landscape,
as they call it, was already happening.
Okay, so Takeru's journey is the destination zero,
the starting point, the analog version.
Now, what happens when we take that principle
and properly formalize it
using those future concepts we've discussed?
Right.
It's really structured.
The source material lays out
three specific MOSO products and ideas.
These are hypothetical systems,
remember, designed to build an actual economy
around this shared growth and movement.
MOSO products, moving from Takeru's
spontaneous experiment to something scalable.
Exactly, an economy built purely
on generating and sharing MI.
Okay, let's dig into them.
Product number one, the formalized KUKO platform.
So this takes Takeru's little group
and scales it up massively.
It's officially labeled
an MI proxy extension delegate
ヒューマンポテンシャルファンドの機能
service.
It deliberately blends
the historical Japanese Isaac Hu idea,
where villages pooled money
to send one person on a pilgrimage
for everyone with a modern human potential fund,
or HPF.
Okay, so how does it work in practice?
Well, imagine a company team
or maybe a whole online community
feeling stagnant.
They pool their resources,
maybe actual money,
maybe MI points they've earned.
Right, like a collective investment
in getting unstuck.
Precisely.
And then the platform's AI gets involved.
It analyzes the group's data,
identifies the most stagnant individual,
the person who statistically needs
the biggest jolt.
Wow, okay.
Targeted intervention.
Highly targeted.
That person becomes the representative.
They get funded and sent off
on what's called a high-risk, high-return trip,
a root fest,
designed for maximum challenge
and growth potential.
A root fest, okay, and the payoff.
It's twofold.
The representative who goes on the journey
and overcomes the obstacles,
they get a huge MI boost,
like potentially plus 30 points,
a massive return on investment for them.
Makes sense.
They did the hard work,
but what about the people back home
who funded it?
That's the really clever part.
The members who stay behind
but who actively follow the journey,
engage with the stories
and genuinely empathize
with the representative's struggles and triumphs.
Yeah.
They receive that MI overshare we talked about,
maybe plus three or plus five MI points each.
They're literally rewarded
for their empathetic connection,
for experiencing that spiritual transformation
vicariously.
So the platform incentivizes empathy.
You profit, in MI terms,
from investing emotionally
in someone else's difficult journey.
Exactly.
It turns shared vulnerability
into a measurable asset.
Fascinating.
フェスティバル向け保険の再定義
Okay, let's move to the second MOSO product.
This one sounds counterintuitive.
Insurance for festivals.
But it sounds like it flips
the whole idea of insurance.
It absolutely does.
Normally, insurance pays out
when something bad doesn't happen,
or rather, it compensates you if it does.
It's about mitigating risk.
Right.
Protecting against loss.
Fins & Sure operates on the insight
from those mobility festivals in episode four.
The biggest MI gains, remember,
up to plus 30,
came from overcoming trouble.
Real, significant problems.
So this product redefines trouble.
It's not a risk to be avoided.
It's the source of the return.
You essentially pay for the potential
for productive difficulty.
Wait, hang on.
I pay, hoping things go wrong.
That sounds mad.
Am I paying for misery?
Huh.
Well, that's the provocative edge, isn't it?
But think about it through the MI lens.
It's like investing in a high-intensity workout.
You're paying for good trouble.
Productive friction.
Good trouble.
How does that work?
Does the AI just, like, slash your tires?
Not quite that crude.
The idea is the AI subtly guides the traveler.
It suggests productive trouble
routes these root fests again.
Okay.
And what makes a root productively troublesome?
Maybe it's a road known for frequent punctures,
but where help is usually findable.
Or perhaps it steers you towards an area
where another traveler,
someone with a high MI score themselves,
is known to be stranded and needs help.
Ah, so it engineers high-value
problem-solving encounters,
creates opportunities for MI-boosting challenges.
Precisely.
It increases the probability of encountering
the kind of trouble that leads to growth,
not just random disaster.
And the insurance part.
The payout.
Here's the picker.
You only get the payout, the insurance money,
after you've successfully overcome
the engineered trouble,
and the system verifies your MI
物語の価値
has significantly increased,
hitting that plus-30 target, for instance.
So you get paid for succeeding through hardship?
Yes.
You are literally compensated
for the stress you productively endured and conquered.
It completely flips the economic value of challenge.
The mind boggles slightly.
Yeah.
It's like performance-related pay-for-life experiences.
Okay, third product.
Journey log.
This sounds more straightforward
a story-sharing platform.
It is, but with that specific MI economy twist.
It formalizes the idea of selling the narrative
of movement and growth itself.
So the person who went on the coup trip
or the Fessenscher challenge, the storyteller,
they can sell their story.
Exactly.
They sell the whole package,
the data of their growth curve,
the detailed emotional story
of the troubles they faced,
how they overcame them,
the moments of insight.
And who buys it?
The listener.
Presumably someone feeling stagnant.
That's the target market, yes.
Someone stuck in a low-friction,
maybe optimized but unfulfilling environment,
craving that vicarious vitality.
But why pay just for a good story?
Or is there more?
There's the MI mechanism again.
It's not just entertainment.
If the listener genuinely connects with the story,
if their heart is moved,
as the source put it.
If they feel that empathy,
that shared experience.
Then their own MI actually increases,
maybe just a little,
plus one or plus two points,
but it's a measurable,
verifiable transfer of that life vitality
through the narrative.
Okay,I see.
The story itself carries MI potential.
And crucially,
that MI gained for the listener
triggers a payment back to the storyteller,
a royalty.
Ah.
So the story itself becomes a kind of currency.
The better,
the more moving,
the more authentic the story of struggle and growth,
the more MI it generates for listeners,
and the more financial return for the storyteller.
Precisely.
It creates a direct market value
for authenticity,
for vulnerability,
for the narrative arc of overcoming difficulty.
真の旅路
The raw experience gets transformed
into circulating MI,
which has economic weight.
It formalizes what happened
with Takaru's Ujufri story,
that intangible impact now has a tangible return.
Wow.
Okay.
So pulling it all together then,
Takaru's journey,
Destination Zero,
wasn't really about getting from A to B
on his super cub across Japan.
Not fundamentally.
The real journey was internal.
Moving his own inner landscape
from stagnation to vitality,
and crucially,
moving the inner landscapes of his community
through sharing that raw process.
And it shows that this return of movement,
this restoration of vitality,
it doesn't necessarily need futuristic tech.
You can start right now
with human will,
a bit of courage,
and the power of sharing our story.
Absolutely.
The potential was always there,
just waiting to be unlocked
and perhaps structured.
Which leads us to that final thought,
that question for you, the listener.
Yes.
If we accept this premise
that sharing the raw painful process
of a journey,
the struggles and the small joys,
can actually transfer measurable life vitality,
MI,
to someone else,
then think about your own life.
All those uncomfortable moments,
the challenges you face,
the awkward experiences,
the things you probably don't usually share,
how much potential value,
how much transferable vitality,
how much wealth in MI terms,
might be locked away
inside those authentic unshared stories.
That is definitely something to chew on.
Makes you want to,
well, move towards tomorrow, doesn't it?
Uh-huh.
Maybe I should plan that long trip after all.
Uh-huh.
Could be an investment.
Indeed.
Well, that's our deep dive for this week.
Thank you, as always, for joining us.
Always a pleasure.
We'll catch you next time.
