Kravchenko S.A. Rediscovering the Future of the Humankind: The Formation of Alternative Social, Digital, and Natural Realities of the Future. In: Complex Social Systems in Dynamic Environments: Advanced Theories, Innovative Methods, and Interdisciplinary Research Results. Ed.by Svetlana G. Maximova. Springer Cham, 2023. P. 3-14.

Abstract

The paper focuses on the impact of the effects of the accelerating and increasingly complex dynamics of the social world, technology, and nature, which determines the permanent rediscovery of the future of humankind. The author notes that there were four significant rediscoveries of the future in the history of human civilization. The author especially analyzes the factors of the current rediscovery of the future. The following factors determine the future: (1) human actors and non-human digital actants; (2) changing nature of people developing digital corporeality; (3) global humanitarian crisis; (4) normal chaos of society and the formation of normal anomie and normal trauma; (5) effect of potential catastrophes spreading in space and time under the influence of COVID-19; (6) rethinking of Good and Evil, and the existing principles of humanism; and (7) ongoing metamorphosis of the world manifesting itself as a positive side effect of the bad. The author concludes that as intelligent actors, people can give complex social, digital, and natural hybrids developing in a pragmatic trend a humanistic vector of development, thereby ensuring their existential security in the future. Initiatives of scientists and politicians on the formation of social and digital consciousness based on non-linear humanistic principles adequate to Einstein’s picture of the world can become a roadmap to this future.

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