Education and Career under the Sign of Technology Society. A Contemporary Challenge Reviewed through the Lens of Dimitrie Draghicescu Thinking

Abstract

The present article investigates the fact that the reality of exponential technological development, the tendency of the contemporary individual to resort to increasingly complex, sophisticated, and penetrating tools to solve increasingly simple life issues, have major implications for education and traditional forms of learning, which require conscious, cumulative, disciplined effort in accumulation and deepening. Education, in the spirit of Draghicescu's argument, is a process of stylized "suffering," and not the recourse to an automated and accessible response, questionable in terms of quality, intended to simplify and accelerate the formation process. We build our research on the conception of Romanian sociologist Dimitrie Draghicescu, who links education to the individual-society binomial, showing that it depends on the characteristics of the complex and large social group. To the extent that technology, especially in its form of AI or robots (already humanoid), tends to embed itself into the social fabric, taking over human tasks and establishing individualized connections with humans, it is evident that education will re-calibrate according to the new type of social structure, which in the not-too-distant future could include AI entities as persons. Our research tries to expose the direct and indirect impact of these digital tools on the education/career field, assuming the idea that the integrality of the characteristics of the organized group influence the individual options. In the context of the (unknown) future challenges related to the exponential development of technology, this approach reflects the dynamic of the present times that announce the profile of the future.