Technology, a potential solution to our challenges

The health and economic crisis has reinforced the lines of tension between individual and group, local and global. These lines include the rejection of individual responsibility (vaccines, containment) and the need to identify global leaders; mobilization against inequalities and world disruption and the rejection of their global resolutions; refusal of imposed rules and the search for “freely” accepted group rules; an appeal to science but to a science reshaped by each individual, etc. Big data and AI promise to reinvent the articulation between the individual and the collective. In politics, will it be for more democracy or manipulation? Will increased human beings be a factor in the reduction of inequalities? Will made-to-measure be at the price of freedom? Will the new organisation of work be at the price of the marginalisation of billions of individuals? And in the face of the great moral problems of the world, wouldn’t the challenge be to put technology at the service of increased discernment?