Surichai WUN’GAEO
Emeritus Professor, College of Political Science, Chulalongkorn College
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Tokyo Discussion board 2023 Shaping the Future
Cultivating Humanity amid Social Divisions and Digital Transformation
The world has entered a interval of division and discord. Human historical past has by no means been freed from strife, however the classes of many wars have led us to pursue stability by formulating guidelines and lowering battle. Nonetheless, the rule-based order that was established via human knowledge has regularly damaged down, and insecurity and unpredictability have grow to be severe issues for our world.
On the identical time, new digital applied sciences, together with knowledge science and synthetic intelligence, are impacting us each bodily and mentally, eradicating earlier environmental and bodily constraints and enabling a wider vary of individuals to play lively roles. However these applied sciences also can reinforce authoritarian surveillance and human bias. Because the boundaries separating us from machines and know-how grow to be more and more blurred, the query of what it means to be human must be revisited. Within the midst of compound crises and alternatives on a world scale, up to date society faces many challenges, together with discovering the knowledge to embrace an more and more fragmented world; mechanisms for controlling and absorbing quickly evolving new applied sciences; concord between the pure setting and the market economic system; and rule-making processes to revive stability to the worldwide order.
With our society now confronting many challenges as a result of world fragmentation and the event of digital applied sciences, tutorial establishments should play a number one function in gathering knowledge for the longer term from each authorities and the personal sector. This mission may be realized solely via freer and extra targeted interactions amongst specialists from many alternative fields. By bringing collectively the knowledge of science, know-how, and the humanities and social sciences via dialogue amongst students of numerous specializations, this yr’s Tokyo Discussion board will discover how humanity can reply to the worldwide challenges of advancing know-how and an unsure worldwide order.
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