Art, academia, and culture before the challenges posed by the new emerging events and technologies of the 21st century: evolution and adaptation

Abstract

The advent of the many emerging crises of our time, and of the manyemerging technologies that are set to define the short-term future, pose aseries of challenges that could heavily disrupt social and economic structures worldwide if they are not addressed in a sensible and timely manner. This research project aims to analyze and expose how the artistic, academic, and cultural disciplines could adapt and evolve in the face of this situation, withthe goal of generating a knowledge base that could be utilized to progressively redefine said disciplines in a way that would allow them to help our species overcome the challenges posed by the future in a significant manner. The data for this project was collected through the qualitative study and cross-analysisof hundreds of relevant articles and studies.This study unveils that these emerging challenges are extraordinarily intricate and dangerous in nature, and uncovers that their root cause resides inthe continued inability of our species to reconcile its tribal legacy with theever-evolving nature of technology, concluding that contemporary societies arecritically underprepared to handle these challenges sensibly. Possible solutionsto this situation determined by this project include the proposal for aredefinition of the artistic, academic, and cultural disciplines conducted intune with our tribal nature and the nature of technology that makes use ofsocial networking structures based on the patterns that define naturallyoccurring evolutive emergent systems to reconcile said natures.Other themes analyzed by this study include the relevance of the artisticmindset as a vital aspect of the human being, the necessity of sensibly democratizing the new emerging technologies, and the potential occurrence of an evolutive emergent in the foreseeable future as a consequence of humaninteraction and organizational complexity reaching a sustained critical mass.These findings indicate the need for the realization of a progressiveredefinition of the artistic, academic, and cultural disciplines conducted intune with our tribal nature and the nature of technology, as well as the need for the immediate recognition and addressing of the many emerging challenges of ourtime by the international community.