**Javair Ratliff** is a co-founder of The Emergence Project, a public-benefit organization aimed at catalyzing transformative change through technology. Javair is a 22-year-old technology hacker, particularly interested in using technology to help improve mindfulness and extend our individual creative capabilities. Having done a wide variety of professional work in various fields from messaging, public health, and interactive AR/VR experiences, he has developed a wide sense of the possibilities of technology and the limits of developing it within the current system.