Information overload and the digitization of public administration produce major effects on Romanian society

The premise from which the present study starts is that the incessant advances made in science and technology are going to radically change the way we live together, having profound and, at the same time, frightening consequences for society. We are not yet intellectually, philosophically, or morally ready for the world we are creating. In the coming decades, the old ways of thinking, which have served us well for hundreds or even thousands of years, will be called into question. New debates, controversies, movements and ideologies will appear. Some of our most deeply held beliefs will be revised or abandoned altogether. We will have to reimagine together what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have power, and even what it means for a regime to be democratic. The politics of the future will look almost nothing like the politics of the past. Twentieth-century politics was dominated by one essential question: how much of our social life should be determined by the state and how much should it be left to the market and civil society? For the generation that is currently approaching maturity, the question will be completely different: to what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by high-performance digital systems and under what conditions? And above all, what can the public administration do when the foundations are destroyed!? These questions and reflections constituted the main theme of our scientific research approach.