Overmind. Valeriy A. Kochnev

      ISBN 978-5-0060-0547-1

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      Chapter 1

      It is true that in our time, politics and old ideologies have become stronger than economics and trade. Big breakthrough ideas stagnate and become less and less common, the forced return to old technologies devalues the previous achievements, which are becoming less common.

      As the world moves towards a multi-polar production system based on a network of global production chains and the largest companies in each country joining together to manage research and development, production and trade, small, medium and even large regional companies will be liquidated or merged with global giants, which will mean the end of small, medium and even large regional companies. As a result of the dominance of monopolies, complex and expensive technologies, expensive development and management, market orientation for immediate results, the possibilities of discovering new technological principles, deep use and development of existing technologies were limited. This negates the possibility of breakthrough research with unpredictable results.

      Compared to the competitive nature of the emerging multipolar world, there is a trend towards consolidation, nationalisation, isolation and fragmentation of the program of positive change, while protectionism and national selfishness dominate the discussion of issues such as climate change, development and investment in high technology.

      The main purpose and reason for the existence of the monetary system is to maintain a balance between supply and demand. In the modern world, the economy is primarily driven by consumption and money capital. However, the current monetary system is unsustainable because it is based on unsustainable production and consumption, unsustainable public debt and unsustainable social programs. This system is unsustainable because it creates unsustainable debt for the public and household sectors. Institutionalisation of artificial intelligence, potential for massive damage, growing use of software in all areas of human activity, over-specialisation and fragmentation of the scientific community, growing use of robots, growing threat of robotisation of the economy, increasing role of the state in the process of scientific and technological progress, automation and over-complication of development processes and the introduction of technology into the economy led to the failure of the technological revolution in many developing countries.

      Undoubtedly, there are a number of other obstacles that hinder the successful dissemination of knowledge, which complicates technical progress, leads to its rise in price and slowdown.

      These factors, in turn, become a recipe for the destruction of relations between science and society, between the scientific elite and the rest of the population. People’s minds are becoming more and more like fortress walls, accepting only those who belong to the same tribe, largely rejecting outsiders and refusing to hear any criticism of their own views. It also prevents them from integrating with other cultures and points of view. The fact that they are isolated makes them more vulnerable to exploitation by the elite and makes them easy targets for manipulation and recruitment. The introduction of such viruses into the body of society prevents it from developing a balanced immune system. One of the main factors in this situation is that the main beneficiaries of technological progress are elites, and this leads to the creation of social inequality, both within and between countries. As a result, the population of many countries has reached a point where they can no longer tolerate this state of affairs, as it has reached a critical point. In conditions when the «Dollar» has lost its relevance, which led to the transition to the «euro-yuan», the world’s largest banks are going to move their headquarters to Asia, the US is losing its leadership in the technology sector and will lose it completely, the average salary in the US and Europe falls, the rise of China and India in the next ten years is inevitable, and the periphery will no longer matter, it will be developed and integrated into the global multipolar production system in a short time period. As a result of the dollar crisis, the United States has lost its role as the world’s reserve currency, and the banking system is in a state of collapse. Markets without the US national currency will no longer be able to trade, and the dollar will either have to be withdrawn from the international market or it will be devalued, but American companies and their shareholders, who have accumulated huge profits over the past decades, will lose a lot of money. Some companies have already begun to transfer their funds to foreign banks, and the balance of payments is increasingly moving towards a deficit. The US Federal Reserve System is filled to the brim with dollars, and there is not enough demand in the economy to support the value of the dollar. The US government is also running out of money, largely because it has spent trillions of dollars fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other hotspots. US banks are losing their money and their lending function.

      All this undoubtedly limits technological progress at the present time. This may be due to a number of other factors, including:

      – A continuation of the old worldview, in which technology is still largely regarded as an accessory of material wealth, serving its production and consumption, and not as a substance of growth, accumulation of knowledge and development of new areas of collective life.

      – Market dominance in technology generates monopolistic trends in knowledge, restricts the circulation of information, and limits the spread of advanced technology systems.

      – The use of old ideas that hold the scientific and technical organism in the same way as the economy has led to a drop in the political significance of science, which ultimately had a negative impact on technology itself.

      – The distribution of resources for basic research and development is not optimal, which hinders the acceleration of a number of research and technological discoveries. Research funding is too dependent on private capital.

      When the division of labor is transferred to the area of complex technologies and management, this is further exacerbated by the high cost of these technologies. Now, to develop a new technological system, it is necessary to create a team consisting of experts in different fields, flexible, adaptive and ready to work together; who are willing to work according to the needs and performance of technology, and not just their own, who seek to improve and develop technology to the maximum, in accordance with the highest principles of intellectual honesty, scientific rigour, and regardless of time, cost, or their employment status. This is not possible in a market economy. It is true that these conditions have been achieved by a number of the world’s leading companies and laboratories, which have achieved historic scientific achievements and great development. At the same time, it is also true that the market is a factor preventing the formation of such teams. Previously, people had only primary and secondary education, and now they have higher education, but people feel that they are unhappy, but they do not know why. At the same time, a high percentage when a person receives a good education, believes that he becomes a professional, enters a job that does not have deep meaning by modern standards, and, moreover, a person himself is sure of this, he is sure that he is not useful. Many are very unhappy with this, but they have no other choice but to come to terms with this situation. Although there are many good jobs, even with relatively high wages, the middle class is disappearing and getting poorer and one of the main problems facing the world today is the problem of poverty.

      People are losing confidence in a system that allows the very rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. The gap between rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger. Many people do not have the resources to meet their basic needs, yet anyone with more than they need is rich, and those with less than they need are poor.

      Currently, with the current model of public funding, social services are an unsustainable model and may not be sustainable for the future. Most people will not be able to live a decent life after retirement because the cost of living is so high that they will lose the comfort and security they had.

      Future generations will