Technological impacts are not foreign to the evolution of national politics, international politics and global geopolitics. We need to interpret not only the changes in the economy, in society, in education; the world and its political circumstances are also undergoing enormous transformations. These changes are so significant that we are moving toward a new political, commercial and geopolitical design and a new geometry of forces. Technology has transformed everything: relations between States, their relations with their citizens, and with their companies and organizations.
This has given way to new forms of exchange, competition, influence, and struggle over scarce resources, new materials and control of zones of influence. Powerful nations have fallen into decline, while other emerging powers appear and, in some cases, new forms of influence and dawning imperial interests.
Technology has served to democratize numerous matters, but it also has its dark side, as an instrument for subjugating peoples and leading us to schemes very similar to those of “1984.” We will need to stay alert and vigilant, because depending on how technology is applied, the line between democratizing and subjugating can become very thin.
In fact, when we add artificial intelligence technologies to this, we know that they have the potential to make people's lives better, but at the same time, in the hands of unscrupulous or totalitarian Governments and Administrations, they threaten privacy, civil rights, public trust and the very essence of democracy.
On the other hand, this MicroLab must be useful in supporting politicians and governmental and regional institutions in their efforts to understand change, legislate on it and adopt all those measures that influence development, while ensuring the protection of citizens.