When I compare what we consider our fundamental problems to the world today, the difference appears to me to be vast, not only in the realm of material development but in the level of the degree of thinking that separates us from them. What are they thinking and what are we drowning in? They think for themselves, their future, and the whole world, indifferent to the degree of our awareness or our ability to adapt.. They do not care if the result of this is our complete disappearance from the map of the world or we are considered test rats.
I was drawn to this by a book published by three of the world's most eminent personalities: Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State in the 1970s, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, and Daniel Huttenlocher, a computer scientist and dean of Schwarzman College at MIT. American technology. The title of this book, which was published last November 2, is: “The Age of Artificial Intelligence and Our Human Future,” and it falls within the scope of future studies and the literature of scientific thought that often attracts my attention. Perhaps today we need to look at it, not to know the future impact of technology on politics, the economy, security and existence in general, but to pay attention to the mysterious fate that awaits us if we do not anticipate events by getting out of the state of narrow thinking that governs us today to what is broader and broader, perhaps we will be able to feel The strengths that we possess and find a way for ourselves, not only to survive, but to provide an alternative by which we transcend what is being made for us today of scenarios that often assume that we are nothing.
Perhaps this book is not separated from Western intellectual production related today to the future of the global struggle in light of the tremendous development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. The controllers of the global networks, or the so-called group of five GAFAM (short for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft), have begun to move to the stage of the "metaverse" (post-cosmic), or those augmented virtual worlds that will be an alternative to the current social networking sites, (including Facebook changed its name to become dead. This transition will undoubtedly have its effects on our values, belief and behavior in general (more than what classic social media sites do today), if we do not anticipate this with appropriate action, and do not work to contain it and reduce its effects on future generations.
Also, this book is not separated from the new materialistic thinking, which has been promoting for years the idea of humans turning into gods due to technological progress, as did the Hebrew writer Yuval Noah Harari in his book “Homo Deus: A Brief History of the Future” in which he considered that “history began, When man invented gods, and it will end when man becomes god,” he proposed a more dangerous concept than Fukuyama’s concept of the end of history.
In a more brief sense, today, we must not forget, in the midst of the problems of underdevelopment that we live in, to think about that other world, the “Metaverse”, which is being prepared by others for our children to live in. The worst scenario awaits us, is that their heads are reshaped the way they want, at a time when we believe today that what they lack only is the place where they live and what they drink and eat...
Henry Kissinger wrote his book about the future that awaits the world and he is 98 years old today (born May 27, 1923).. I fear that perhaps among us at this moment someone says: What is this talk?.. Our problem is not with the future!
