Technological Governance and Escapism in Times of Accelerated Change

Ignas Kalpokas is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Communication, and Senior Researcher in the V. Kavolis Institute of Transdisciplinary Research, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. He also holds research positions at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland and LCC International University, Lithuania.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Artificial Intelligence and Going Beyond Cherished Assumptions.- 3. Reality Nostalgia: Musings on the Post-Information, Post-Truth Society.- 4. Living With or Through Technology?.- 5. The Less-than-Novel Escapism of the Metaverse.- 6. Where Are We at? Reconsidering (Un)Reality.- 7. Conclusions.