 |
| Imaged by ha11ok | pixabay.com |
Written by Muhammad Natsir Tahar
No nation is technologically advanced without creative
disruption, this has long been elaborated by Joseph Scumpeter as a condition
for the flow of the economy to survive.
No nation has survived
so long frozen from the technological innovations that have moved the times. If
the disruption of innovation is still defined as something that interferes with
the continuation of conventional industry, it is a sign to be called a ruin.
But we will come to a time when creative disruption will become the common
enemy of the human species.
Disruption is a term
that was first popularized by Clayton Christensen, economist from Harvard
Business School in 1995. This phenomenon is characterized by the emergence of
various innovations, technologies, platforms, and new business models to meet
public tastes that demand novelty and win superiority through little sacrifice.
Technology continues to
accelerate to serve the market community. Then what about those who are served,
when their own existence is being threatened. The future faces the biggest
dilemma, on the one hand the excitement of innovation must be absorbed, on the
other hand robotic algorithms increasingly strip the human brain and muscles.
The unemployed humans
who were dumped by the automation industry will not be able to buy anything.
While the economic system as a dynamic continuum will not be able to move away
from the iron law of supply and demand.
We will be at a tipping
point, will we win over our weak existence or continue the innovation project
that is sure to threaten. Can philosophies tame and stifle innovation for the
sake of the people they are meant to serve?
Let’s review through the
formulation of the philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), an initiator of
phenomenology. Technology, said Heidegger, is between humans and the world.
Tools connect us to the world, connecting apparatus. Things define who we are.
According to him, all
these objects are readiness to hand, their existence is intended for something,
so technology can never be neutral, because there are motives and there are
consequences. If technology is only understood as instrumental, then it has
been deprived of its essence.
Speaking of cyborgs, world-class elites will appear who have
transformed into superhumans who have implanted robotic superiority in their
brains and muscles. They are amortals who scientifically don’t age and die of
disease. But death will still pick them up with God’s intervention.
We hope that Heidegger
will still be heard by end-time innovators: technology cannot be left neutral,
it must side with humans, amid all the equipment that has been prepared to
replace us. Super intelligent and powerful robots will stroll in the midst of humans.
This will be the final act of creative disruption.
Don’t imagine them as
they are now, like titanium skulls with glowing crystal eyes, they can even be
more charming and gentle, also more soulful as a refinement of the cyborg
(cybernetic organism): the result of the marriage of humans with robots. And
someday humans will actually marry robots.
Speaking of cyborgs,
world-class elites will appear who have transformed into superhumans who have
implanted robotic superiority in their brains and muscles. They are amortals
who scientifically don’t age and die of disease. But death will still pick them
up with God’s intervention.
The ingenuity of the
human brain was replaced by a data crunch that was started by the chess master
Garry Kasparov who was powerless before the Deep
Blue engine (1996) or the greatest French Bordeaux vineyard
rating of fame since 1855, then lost to the predictions of Orley Ashenfelter
using only statistical power.
All types of work almost
without exception are slowly being automated, it’s only a matter of whether it
will be absorbed or waiting for the right moment. Likewise with skilled hands
such as Michelanggelo’s or Leonardo Davinci’s masterpieces that can be
re-created by simply pressing a 3D printer button.
The best symphony at Beethoven’s
level, the most beautiful prose and poetry of Kahlil Gibran or the unique
allegories of Franz Kafka will be easily written robotically with a quality
that makes humans unable to distinguish, not to say: beyond.
Even to remove the noise
and waste by the rituals of the democratic party, the best robot president can
be created that far exceeds all the presidents that have ever existed. In a
futuristic autopilot state, a human president and his line of leadership may
still be only needed as symbols.
Then what are our steps?
technology 4.0, for example, is a symptom of the latest trends in automation
and data exchange in factory technology which actually indicates the phase that
is worrying about is approaching. The term industry 4.0 includes cyber-physical
systems, internet of things, cloud computing, and cognitive computing.
We seem to only focus on
the emergence of novice businessmen or startups but still hope that their
output will be absorbed by the threatened human market. Technology 4.0 only
provides clues for adaptation, not solutions. Not much different when we
replace manual cars with automatic gear. Even smart factories in 4.0 will try
to reduce humans according to their original nature: computerization.
Anticipating the threat
of a digital apocalypse with big data algorithms is our biggest homework, in
addition to still having to deal with the nation’s current problems which are
handled banally, the noise of democracy, cultural and systematic corruption,
economic bubbles, demographic bonuses, and the decline of essential dialectics
as a civilized nation due to a literacy deficit.
So creative disruption
in the future becomes a paradox, even a threat to human existence that
currently has not been found a way to anticipate it. ~
Comments