Digital Transformation and Political Economy Hardy Hanappi ad personam Jean Monnet Chair for Political Economy of European Integration www.econ.tuwien.ac.at/hanappi hanappi@tuwien.ac.at

Content Increasing contradictions between technical possibilities and their actual use in political economy Expanding the scientific base of a democratic digital transformation The vision: Global central nervous system of the human species Hardy Hanappi, April 2017

Contradictions Technology Political Economy Internet Mobile Phone ICT: Information & Communication Technologies Internet Mobile Phone Alienation Pol.Eco. Crisis Individual knowledge Individual transaction handling Internal models Coordination failures Less visible  Visible Info commodity Global value chains Consciuosness transition Danger of a global war Hardy Hanappi, April 2017

Contradictions Strong Interaction Technology Political Economy ICT: Information & Communication Technologies Strong Interaction Internet Mobile Phone Alienation Pol.Eco. Crisis Individual knowledge Individual transaction handling Internal models Coordination failures Info commodity Global value chains Consciuosness transition Danger of a global war Hardy Hanappi, April 2017

Expanding the scientific base Necessity of transdisciplinarity in technological development! Three examples with high priority: Voting Theory (mathematics, informatics, …) Mechanisms of mass communication (ABS, …) Networks (network theory, empirical research, …) Hardy Hanappi, April 2017

The Vision Global central nervous system of the human species Technology Political Economy  United by Consciuos Global Design of the Species Visible  Less visible Enlightenment Project Developing a Global central nervous system of the human species Thank you for your attention Hardy Hanappi, April 2017