The polarization of radical ideas is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Social media algorithms nowadays show certain content only to certain people, and this is leading to less open-minded discussions over new ideas.
That’s where quantum thinking comes in. Training our minds in quantum thinking leads to see problems from different points of view and more holistically. It is easier to understand and confront each other, and maybe even convince someone who is on the opposite side of the conversation.
According to the director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, David Theo Goldberg, Quantum thinking has taken its cue from both sources of inspiration, Quantum Physics and Quantum Computing.
Quantum Physics is already a century old and has revolutionized Physics while Quantum Computing is forty years in the making and gathering steam and still working to realize its considerable promise.
This topic will be analyzed by David Theo Goldberg on Saturday, October 22, in his talk with the title “Quantum thinking: Will it save the Future?’, at the Athens Science Festival 2022.
This talk will briefly introduce what amounts to the basic principles of “quantum” in Physics and Computing, and what of these principles Quantum Thinking inherits. The prevailing focus will address how novel Quantum Thinking in fact is, what challenges it promises to address and whether it offers a genuinely new way of addressing our pressing social challenges.
How easy is it to consider different perspectives on everything? Can this revolutionary way of thinking finally save the Future? And if so, how?
O David Theo Goldberg:
Trained in Philosophy, David Theo Goldberg is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine. He directed the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) for the past two decades. Goldberg’s work spans social, political and critical theory, the impact of technology on the human future, digital technology, and race and racism. His numerous books include Dread: Facing Futureless Futures (2021); Are we all Transracial yet? (Government, 2015); The Future of Thinking (with Cathy Davidson, 2011); and the upcoming War on Critical Race Theory (2023). He served as Executive Director of the MacArthur-funded UCHRI Research Hub in Digital Media and Learning at UC Irvine, an on-site and virtual research facility designed to advance field development in the region.
