Globalization, as it was termed, was a short and artificial phase, and it is now dying of clinical death. In the past and to this day it has been characterized by a degree of “democracy” of thought in the areas of governance, management and industry, while at the same time inefficient and declining ability to analyze information and thus make decisions, which led to the adoption of wrong policies and often misleading. Now, modern technology, especially artificial intelligence and machine learning, is based on the central processing of this information, and has taken control of its components, and decentralized in the past among a large number of institutions and governments. One of the most important advantages of artificial intelligence is the consolidation of this central processing of information, to begin the era of user and citizen engagement in the formulation of policies, procedures and laws.
What does this shift mean, especially in our Arab region, where we move from international relations to international partnerships?
Europe took 20 years to reach the Renaissance, but in the new information age our region will take much less time to get up, for two reasons: first, this global digital progress is no longer walking, it is flowing, and what was measured in months is now measured in hours, and secondly: Technology advances and accelerates.
Today, however, the world faces the most efficient and productive IT autocracy. Yesterday's globalization democracy was the best mechanism for filtering human choices in a given society, transforming majority decisions into state policies under the law, and in light of the criterion of protecting minority rights. These policies and laws rather than faltering problems and mechanisms that accompanied the old practices.
But with the enormous growth in the various capitalist indicators brought about by the digital revolution, we find that the majority of the people are getting poorer, in the sense that there is a serious problem that we have to face, and looking for more meaningful ways of profit and wealth.
I called on the UN platform to focus on the social implications, because the economy was originally created to serve society and build civilization, not drown in the quagmire of capital and the looting of the world by a handful of powerful digital holders.
Today, we coexist in controlled communities from home to school to work to the hospital, highly disciplined communities under the watchful eye of sustainable people where people act and act in pre-designed programs that are traded under “remote control”. This is the new digital autocracy that is gradually replacing the democracy of thought and action.
Founder and President of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAGorg).