Our world is changing rapidly. Thousands of jobs are lost daily because of the impressive and uncontrolled progress of technology. Two-thirds of the workers are already being laid off on the long road toll, for example! And this is the first drop in the storm that follows. No, 20 or ten years. Right now. Shocking changes are bringing down the world we knew and reveal the nakedness of a completely unprepared to respond to the challenges of a political system. The «solutions» Yesterday's world doesn't fit tomorrow. We're facing a dead end.
Look around you and think about what work will be left unaffected by this speech. Soon the machines will do almost all the jobs and people will look awkwardly at technology to eliminate their studies, skills, and dreams. Society will need fewer lawyers, fewer doctors, less than anything. And some others, like hotel cleaners, won't even need them. No less, but not at all.
What is the proposal we have in front of what is already happening? And that's really impressive. While developments are rapid, the political system presents a remarkable inability to understand reality. That what is happening is not in response to the classic references to what the Right and the Left have been supporting for decades. Their developments pass and force them to either synchronize with the new era, or disappear. The point is to lose one's job because a robot makes it cheaper and better and at the same time his politician talks to him about the need to overthrow monopolies and with slogans of the press «the people don't forget what right means». Looks like there's some forgotten dinosaurs left over from some whim of history.
This is the first time that the changes made cause so much embarrassment. To date the «wrestling» was to control the means of production. What's happening these days is something else. We can't exactly define it yet, but the known worldviews certainly can't solve it. What means are we talking about when we don't know yet what we've created and given him the name artificial intelligence? That the dominant intelligence won't become tomorrow?
It's not just a Greek phenomenon. The world is experiencing a shock that will escalate over time and its leaders not to do anything. It is certain that the changes made will bring crisis. Definitely social. And because of this fact and economic. But above all they will bring about a crisis of values in relation to work and profit.
Thanasis Mavroidis
