VISION
It is the hypothesis of a shift to a state of Permanent Systemic War that allows us to anticipate a return of the human. Indeed, the fragility of the administrative and governance superstructure linked to this state, by reducing the vertical dependence of individuals and forcing them to be resilient, will give power back to humans.
Compelled to reconnect horizontally and to devise mechanisms of solidarity that compensate for the failures of the superstructure, people will rebuild society in the real world by reclaiming those aspects of technology that can be put at the service of human interaction. Of course, this process of rehumanisation will unfold within a highly constraining techno (-cratic and -logical) environment.
In a sense, humanity will have to “enter into resistance,” beginning by stepping aside from the Machine, to set out on a path toward reinventing a humanist society that could fully emerge over the next 20 to 40 years (one to two generations).
Humans are talking to each other again
When public services malfunction, people start talking to each other again. And that’s a good thing, because that’s exactly what they need to do: reconnect, help each other, stick together, organise themselves to reassure each other, “rebuild society” and find their own solutions to the countless difficulties they will agree they have in common. By putting new technologies back at their service, they too have powerful tools at their disposal to organise and amplify their collective actions. But they must first re-anchor themselves in society and step outside their filter bubbles and echo chambers.
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