(1) What problem solves fresh technology? (2) Whose problem is this? (3) Which people and what institutions can endure the most from a fresh technological solution? (4) What fresh problems may arise as a consequence of the old problem? (5) What people and what institutions will enter into possession of a certain political and economical power as a consequence of technological change? (6) What changes in language will force fresh technology and what will we gain and what will we lose as a consequence of these changes?
These are questions by Neil Postman, the author of the books “Technopol” (1992) and “Play to Death” (1985). Questions that haven't changed. On the contrary, present they have benefited. In the Polish public debate, only a fewer ask them. And even less effort to find answers to these questions. And on the fingers of 1 hand I can number experts who point to the dark sides of technology and do not immediately add on 1 breath that they “believe and hope for an optimistic development”.
TECHNOPOLIC
The Technopolitical Forum is simply a space that serves to ask political questions about technology: it helps or hinders. Political, due to the fact that fresh technology changes everything. It changes us, people. And it changes the world, the planet of people.
"If you remove caterpillars from a certain environment, you will not get the same environment minus caterpillars: you will have a fresh environment due to the fact that you have changed the conditions of your survival; the same applies to adding caterpillars to an environment where there has not been a single one. This is how the ecology of the media works. fresh technology doesn't add anything or subtract anything. fresh technology changes everything," Neil Postman wrote.
Examples? Just look at the Polish school, which radically changes smartphone and AI. "Chatbots encouraged killing parents and suicide. Dark AI website, “The worst I've seen”. Scientists are on the alert: AI has triggered a crisis of integrity, "New addiction among young people. Psychologists beat the alarm after a shocking report, these are the selected titles from the portal of the paper "Rzeczpospolita".
Another example: Israeli genocide in Palestinians utilizing AI technology. Jews on an industrial scale kill civilians in the Gaza Strip. And the "civilized" planet turns its eyes distant from the Palestinian Holocaust.
And the 3rd example: “Stop hiring people” is the title of advertising billboards suspended in London and San Francisco by AI. A company that wants to make money on technological unemployment.
Stop Hiring Humans?
Yeah. halt AI pic.twitter.com/zG7mj2GeIK
No anaesthesia
The Technopolitical Forum is simply a space to talk about Poland's place on a global chess board. In front of our eyes, the powers one more time form the fresh order of the world. Technology, not geography, is crucial in this process.
The technological arms race is gaining momentum: artificial (anti-human) intelligence, genetic modifications to CRISPR, star wars. It's only 3 areas of this race to the death.
We plan to talk without anesthetics about subjects that others do not want or are afraid to take. The themes of this year's seventh edition of the Forum mention to the biggest challenges facing us, Poles and Poles, and our country:
- A war you cannot see – AI, blackout, migration, fresh “stellar wars”
- Global South vs.West – Will BRICS change the world's power system?
- How do you last the end of the planet you know? – civilian defense, immunity, survival
- Playing atom – From whom should Poland import atomic technologies?
- Smartphone pandemic – How do we deprive ourselves and our children of reason and empathy?
- Will Europe turn into a superstate? – AI Act, Digital Money (CBDC)
- Technological unemployment – Robots, AI, automation: end of work or fresh opportunities?
Meet me live
How can Poland play a large chessboard? We will look for answers together with experts and Forum participants.
We want a serious conversation live, beyond divisions. due to the fact that the common good for us is Poland, not this or any another group of interests.
The Forum program is not dictated by political parties, corporations, companies of the state Treasury or embassy. We have experts from the front pages of newspapers and those that no 1 has always heard of and who have unique knowledge.
The Forum has been attended by experts from various sides of the political, social and technological scene, including: Ewa Bińczyk, Paweł Bliźnik, Małgorzata Bonikowska, Krzysztof Bosak, Alfred Bujara, Jacek Dukaj, Wojciech Eichelberger, Piotr Gadzinowski, Marcin Giełzak, John Godson, Bogdan Góralczyk, Beata Górka-Winter, Natalia Hatalska, Witold Jurasz, Maciej Kawecki, Arkadiusz Kups, Paweł Lisicki, Michał Lubina, Grzegorz Lindenberg, Paulina Matysiak, Elżbieta Mączyńska, Paweł Nogal, Jan Oleszczuk-Zygmuntowski, Rafal Otoka-Frzeczkiewicz, Bogusław Pacek, Patrycja Pendrakowska, Piotr Plebaniak, Marcin Popkiewicz, Radosław Pyffel, Bartłomiej Rakowski, Paweł Rakowski, Jarosław Sachajko, Jan Sadkiewicz, Tomasz Sajkiewicz, Tomasz Sajewik, Marek Sał Marek, Piotr Piotr Pleński, Świerkiewicz, Marcinikiewicz, Krzysztofy Wy Wy Wyż
Who are we hosting this year? Check for yourself: https://forumtechnopolitical.pl/
Meet me in Łódź and talk live. Today, in the age of digitization, virtual conversations, social media, we request live conversations. We request them like water fish. As Neil Postman wrote: "Resistance fighters, erstwhile they want to make real contact with someone, anticipate them to be in the same room."
See you later!
PS. Every ticket purchased is crucial to us. Ticket receipts let us to pay the room, train tickets for panelists and their accommodation. Experts are not paid for participation in the event. We work for the organization of the Technopolitical Forum voluntarily, as we utilized to say, "in social activity".
Here I thank all those who aid with thought, word and deed.
