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Mapping Wild Cards

Inspired by: interviews » Thinking Cap

version: 4 / updated: 2011-10-27
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Originally submitted by: Ivan Montenegro Perini
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Source of inspiration

Interviews

The source of the Wild Card is

Adam Sporka, Czech Technical University, Interviewed by TC AS

Headline

(max. 9 words)

Thinking Cap

Description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)
It is a machine intended for the monitoring and recording of thoughts

Keywords

spying, technical devices, technology, control of behaviour

Likelihood

Closest timeframe for at least 50% likelihood
Please use one of the following options:
now-2025

Type of event

Human planned (e.g. terrorist attack or funded scientific breakthrough)

Type of emergence

please select (if any) describe related trend or situation
A new development/situation
(e.g. a Romani state is established in central Europe; A message from an alien civilisation existing on a distant planet is received and understood, etc.

Type of systems affected

Both

Classification

Mixed

Importance

please specify:
please select
Level 4: important for the whole world

Latent phase

Obstacles for early indentification

information/communicational filters (media/editorial interests, language, reasoning)
institutional filters (rules, laws, regulations)
scientific filters (knowledge/technology access)

Manifestation phase

Type of manifestation

Very uncertain

Aftermath phase

Important implications
Transformation of a system (e.g. new applications, change in stakeholders relations/influence)

Relevance for Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Behavioural change
Coexistence and conflicts
Education dynamics
Ethics and abuse of S&T
Social pathologies & ethics
Social exclusion & poverty
Social cohesion and diversity

Relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
ICT - Information & communication technologies
Social Sciences and Humanities

Pan-European strategies potentially helping to deal with the wild card

please justify:
particularly relevant
Improving researchers mobility and career development by, for example, realising a single labour market for researchers.
Strengthening research institutions and universities

 Features of a research-friendly ecology contributing to deal with the wild card

For further information about 'research-friendly strategies' click here

please justify:
particularly relevant
Overcoming sub-criticality and systemic failures
To be subcritical means that the effort in a particular field or subfield lacks resources, equipment or a sufficient number of researchers to achieve a desired goal