THE SLOW DEATH OF INDUSTRIALISM

Philipp Kristian Diekhöner

Chapter 6 in RESET:Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future, 2021, pp 77-84 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: A humane economy, fuelled by social capital and genuine mutual gain, is a promising scenario on our horizons. Humans are not industrial. If you think that’s obvious, you are of course right. That raises the question why much of today’s world is built on industrialist principles and how those principles have permeated beyond the mass manufacturing world into our lives and psyches. Combined with hyper-globalism as we have experienced for several decades now, industrialist principles have turned us into appendages or extensions of production and consumption more so than we perhaps appreciate. We are often unaware of how entrenched this thinking has become (ever wondered why your supervisor is called a ‘line manager’?). As Indian mystic Sadhguru observes so aptly, “Human is not a resource”…

Keywords: Innovation; Future of Work; Future; Futurism; Trends; Transformation; Corporate Innovation; Digital Transformation; Trust Economy; Sharing Economy; Deep Technology; Future Economy; Startups; Digital Trust; Digital Economy; Digitisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 L2 L26 M1 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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