The role of technology in a globalized economy and the new role of the CIO

The alliance between science and technology forms the genesis of the concept of technology, giving the technique autonomy and security that admits a method consistent with its elements.

The technology sponsors the technique from the perspective of science, designating the technical acts and their methodological foundations. Machines replace and amplify the work of the human being, but never replace the talent and creative capacity that emerges from the engines of innovation.

With the advent of the knowledge society and the new economic model that marks the course of globalization, innovation engines are accelerating and dependence on technology only marks the pace of change, but innovation and creativity are undoubtedly true assets of this economy.

The impact of technology on our complex society not only brought as a consequence a new dynamic of information and knowledge that benefits one part of society and condemns the other that can not access.

There are two clear and popular messages, but contradictory, about technology as a tool that society uses to survive. On the one hand there are those who trust in science and technology as the ancients trusted in God or the same State. The other, calls for reflection on technological progress and its consequences: The constant and progressive deterioration of nature, the loss of animal and plant species, the harsh living conditions, hunger and the marked asymmetries that characterize Third World countries .

Some argue that technology could solve these social complications, for others new technologies can generate greater detriment and social asymmetry. Social networks today are a threat to the privacy of citizens, but also contemplates the dawn of a new democratic model of opinion that generates prestige or loss of prestige in real time and that affects the business and communication that companies generate to seduce to the individuals.

It seems incredible that in general we forget that human talent is still the fundamental factor of innovation.

The surrender of culture to technology, shows striking asymmetries, abundance versus hunger, messages of peace versus lethal weapons that measure their effectiveness for their quality to avoid collateral damage, unemployment versus striking lack of classified resources.

The new power of information as a factor of social change responds to new paradigms closer to the consideration of unpredictability, than to an open debate in society and in the media.

Personally, I dislike participatory media that favor the focus of the social controversy towards a favorable and sincere debate.

Technocracy in situ. Those of us who are part of the world of technology and the internet do not yet have the capacity to dispose of the main agent of social change: technology and technology.

We have in our hands one of the greatest challenges in history, to solve it for the generations that will precede us, without forgetting that human talent is the center.