The coming wave: technology, power and the top dilemma of the 21st century

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Karol Vasilewski

Doctor of social sciences in politics and administration, postgraduate of turcology and global relations at the University of Warsaw. He works at the 4CF as a abroad Advisor. From 2016 to 2022 he worked at the Polish Institute of global Affairs, where he served as an analyst for Turkey, the programme manager of the mediate East and Africa and the editor of the Polish abroad Policy Yearbook (volumes 2016-2019). His investigation interests include issues related to the future of global order and security, fresh trends in global relations and analysis of abroad policy. Expert of the Polish Society for Future Studies.

Karol Wasilewski, expert of the Polish Society for Future Studies, talks to Rafał Górski, editor-in-chief of the civilian Affairs Week.

Aversion to pessimism – a tendency of people, especially elites, to ignore, underestimate or reject narratives that they perceive as besides negative. This is simply a form of optimistic prejudice that affects most debates on the future, especially in technological circles.
www.the-coming-wave.com

Look at the world, and you'll think stopping [technology] is impossible. Look at the consequences, and something else will become equally clear: it must be possible for the good of everyone to hold back.
Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar, “The incoming wave: technology, power and top dilemma of the 21st century”

We can program people the same way we program computers.
Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, ‘Project Genesis. Will synthetic biology cure us?”

Who is Mustafa Suleyman, co-author of the book “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the top Dilemma”?
Please decrypt the wave metaphor that appears in the book. What 2 main waves will flood us soon?
What are the 5 biggest threats from fresh technologies?

What can we do to guarantee that the “great wave” does not end mankind?
Who will gain power and who will lose the tsunami artificial intelligence and genetic modifications?
In Finland, there is simply a Committee for the Future, an organization model for reasoning about the future beyond organization divisions and the current political struggle. In Poland we have the Institute of National Memory. Does Poland request National Future Institute (IPN+) or utilizing a name that causes little controversy among the current rulers, the Committee for the Future of Poland? The establishment of specified an institution is proposed by the Think Tank Institute of civilian Affairs.