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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: THE NEW ROLE OF HUMANITIES IN A ROBOTIC WORLD by Marta García Aller
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To what extent will living in a connected world is changing our lives? The problem of talking about the future is that we have not even invented the appropriate language to understand what does not yet exist. How can we adapt ourselves to something that does not exist yet? What changes do we have to make in our career and in our companies to adapt to the technologies of the future?
Blockchain, Big Data and Robotization are some of the clues that we already have of the future. But to understand how all of this is going to change our lives, the best way is to look at what we are about to leave behind. When innovation accelerates, it's time to say goodbye to many other things. We are facing the end of oil, the end of stores, the end of traffic lights and even the end of cash registers and the end of privacy, just to mention some.
Marta Garcia Aller analizes these challenges in her last book The End of the World as we know it'). Artificial intelligence not only changes the way we work, buy and sell, but also the way we think, fall in love and even how we have and raise our children. And it is also changing the role of Humanities in our lives. If we want to teach machines to think, understanding how human beings see the world is more important than ever.
When everything changes so fast, facing so much uncertainty, it is very convenient to doubt a lot. And asking questions about society it's what proffesionals in humanities and communications' can offer the world to be better prepared to adapt to a world in permanent transformation. The future is about to come.
Where
Velázquez 130, 4th floor
Velázquez 130, madrid, MADRI 28006, Spain
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Marta García Aller
Journalist and Author
El Independiente
Marta García Aller (Madrid, 1980) is a journalist and writer. The success of her latest book, 'The end of the world as we know it' (Planeta, 2017), has made it a benchmark for digital transformation and the analysis of technological changes. Before joining El Independiente, the newspaper where she works since its foundation, she went through the editorial offices of El Mundo, Actualidad Económica and Efe. She collaborates daily in the program La Brújula de Onda Cero, as an analyst of economics and chronicler of the news. Since 2010 she is an associate professor at the IE School of Human Sciences and Technology at IE Business School. She has received some of the most prestigious awards in economic journalism. 'The end of the world as we know it' is her third book.