Applied problems of social architecture for planning the future Valery Fedorov, General Director of the Analytical Center VTsIOM: - Today the future seems asynchronous. Everyone will find themselves in this future, but it will be very different for different groups and countries. This is a better future, but for an absolute minority of the world's population. That's the problem. Several drivers for this desynchronization: unprecedented advances in technology. AI has already created a huge imbalance. Moreover, this imbalance will only increase both at the physical level, if we talk about computing power, and at the level of the distribution of abilities. demography. It is also undergoing tectonic changes. Poles of rapid growth emerged - Africa, Central Asia and the South Asian subcontinent. In the Global North, the ultra-aging process is occurring at an accelerated rate. the labor market. It looks like an hourglass. That is, the jobs intended for the middle class are sharply decreasing in number. As a result, the social structure takes on a very unstable appearance and returns to what it was before the beginning of the 20th century. The cultural driver also does not inspire much optimism, even though all human knowledge and experience is becoming technically much more accessible than before. We are witnessing a progressive surprise of the broad masses of the population. And there is a reasonable fear that this gap will only get stronger. We should all seriously look for ways to prevent such a scenario. And here social architecture can do a lot. Among the most applied tasks, I will mention the main ones: architecture of trust. There is less and less trust in our world, but the need for it is growing more than ever. And here, the miracles of science and technology, alas, do not add security. The next task concerns our cities and is directly related to the demographic disaster that is taking place. It is clear that all efforts to restore the birth rate in the Global North have not yet resulted in success.

Applied problems of social architecture for planning the future Valery Fedorov, General Director of the Analytical Center VTsIOM: - Today the future seems asynchronous. Everyone will find themselves in this future, but it will be very different for different groups and countries. This is a better future, but for an absolute minority of the world's population. That's the problem. Several drivers for this desynchronization: unprecedented advances in technology. AI has already created a huge imbalance. Moreover, this imbalance will only increase both at the physical level, if we talk about computing power, and at the level of the distribution of abilities. demography. It is also undergoing tectonic changes. Poles of rapid growth emerged - Africa, Central Asia and the South Asian subcontinent. In the Global North, the ultra-aging process is occurring at an accelerated rate. the labor market. It looks like an hourglass. That is, the jobs intended for the middle class are sharply decreasing in number. As a result, the social structure takes on a very unstable appearance and returns to what it was before the beginning of the 20th century. The cultural driver also does not inspire much optimism, even though all human knowledge and experience is becoming technically much more accessible than before. We are witnessing a progressive surprise of the broad masses of the population. And there is a reasonable fear that this gap will only get stronger. We should all seriously look for ways to prevent such a scenario. And here social architecture can do a lot. Among the most applied tasks, I will mention the main ones: architecture of trust. There is less and less trust in our world, but the need for it is growing more than ever. And here, the miracles of science and technology, alas, do not add security. The next task concerns our cities and is directly related to the demographic disaster that is taking place. It is clear that all efforts to restore the birth rate in the Global North have not yet resulted in success.