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Threats and Consequences of Non-Smart Industry Quo vadimus? Quo vademus? | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Threats and Consequences of Non-Smart Industry Quo vadimus? Quo vademus?


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The questions "Where do we rush? Where will we go?" are essential for our present day civilisation. The first question is: on which path are we now, and where will it lea...Show More

Abstract:

The questions "Where do we rush? Where will we go?" are essential for our present day civilisation. The first question is: on which path are we now, and where will it lead us. The other one is: which future do we want, and which path shall we take to get there.Where do we go? Well, we rush in all kinds of directions, like children we try out whatever can be done, but very, very rarely we consider system stability consequences. And that usually only much late after the destabilising action. Unfortunately, a general driving force of our civilisation can be detected: Faster, Better, More… A typical case of a dynamic system with a positive feedback loop. It is known that positive feedback, without a regulatory opposition of a negative feedback is destructive for a system at any level. Only a balanced regulatory process of positive and negative feedback is homeostatically sustainable. But, furthermore, the positive feedbacks (!) we constantly strive for are of extremely diverse natures, though all fall into the "Faster, Better, More…" category. This develops additional strain on the whole system stability [the whole (eco-)system of the geosphere, biosphere and technoshpere, as presently we pushed our survival possibilities largely into the sphere of technology]. However, the negative feedback comes from the whole ecosystem with, in human terms, very long latency, and than in ways which are either not obvious, or generally regarded irrelevant for everyday personal life, or generally regarded as terrible, but what can we do? So the question "Where do we go?" necessitates a thorough answer.But to know where we go it is essential to know the present state of the system. There are two highly pronounced areas of our civilisation's destabilisation of the system. The first is resource consumption, the second is garbage production. Both of those cling on uncontrollable overgrown consumerism, grown out of the contradictory philosophies and the conflicting economic and social princ...
Date of Conference: 23-27 May 2022
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 27 June 2022
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Conference Location: Opatija, Croatia

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