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WHAT KIND OF HOMO WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE?
Wiesław SZTUMSKI1
Questions about the Future
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Keywords: social evolution, economic human, rational human, virtual human, digital human
Abstract In the last decades, huge technological progress have created many kinds of human, depending on which of his features dominate over the other at a given stage of social evolution. Each of these kinds is treated like an ideal or a model of human. From the beginning, in the capitalist economy, the ideal is homo oeconomicus, which contributes most to its development. However, he turned out to be insufficient in contemporary time. Modern technologies - especially IT and progressive digitization - need people who can use them most effectively. Therefore, it was necessary to create new people - virtual and digital ones. The political authorities also demand such people. But the question arises: how long they will be needed and whether the future of humanity will depend on them. This article contains descriptions of various kinds of human, their advantages and disadvantages, and an attempt to answer the question in the title.
Silesian University, Katowice, Poland
E-mail: ws34@op.pl