OUR TRANSITIONAL ERA

We are living at a time when liberalism is losing credibility, the twin revolutions of information technology and biotechnology pose the greatest challenges to our species. They promise solutions to global problems and the possibility of re-designing life, on the other hand their merger may soon throw billions of people out of the labor market. Big Data algorithms may create digital dictatorships with power in a small elite while the majority will suffer from its insignificance. Whoever owns the data will own the future. How is data ownership regulated? The real danger is that humans will become robots. The only counterweight is to realize our potential and creativity and resist being turned into subjects.