Part 3: Awareness, Knowledge and the Future12
Chapter 12: Contention in Shaping the Future: From Understanding the Laws to Building Alternatives
In 2017 China announced that it would lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, and so began a contention that is barely visible yet is reshaping everything, with a deeper question beneath it: who will own the mind of the future? The chapter starts from this race to argue that knowing the laws of history is worth little while it remains analysis, and becomes power only when it turns into action. It takes up digital contention, when the algorithm becomes the arena; the struggle of narratives, in which whoever writes the story owns the outcome; whether nations other than the West can offer civilizational alternatives; and a generation of young people who lead the contention rather than serve as its fuel.
The book is being prepared for publication, in Arabic. These pages offer glimpses of it, not its text.