Human history is a history of powerful civilisations which collapsed for various reasons, but behind all of those reasons there was the inability of each civilisation to adapt to changes that were introduced by the human race itself or by the external environment. Judging from history we can expect that our civilisation might collapse as well.This book takes a look at the huge changes brought by new technology that was introduced by humans over the past few decades and might have the power to destroy the modern civilisation. It analyses social disadvantages of the new technology and attempts to answer the question of what has to be done to enable society to adapt to the new techology, embrace it and use it for the collective good. It also explains how to recognize fake news, why Orson Welles was a fake news visionary and why Monica Lewinsky was one of the first victims of the modern new technology.
Vesna Lukovic is an independent researcher who was a macroeconomist in the United States Agency for International Development Kosovo project, an advisor to the Slovenian Government and a senior analyst at the Bank of Slovenia. She holds a PhD in EU law from the Slovenian European Faculty of Law and an MA in international relations from Columbia University in New York, USA. She also holds an MSc from Bedfordshire University and a PgDip from the University of Essex, both in the UK. She has published papers on banking, digitalization, trade agreements and related matters. Marja Novak Vogric is a Slovenian research journalist who holds a PhD in media studies from London's University of Westminster. She worked for Slovenia's largest daily newspaper Delo before joining Reuters. As a Reuters correspondent, she covered Slovenian and European political and economic developments for over 25 years. She is now an economic and political analyst and correspondent of several international companies.
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