Revista de Artes e Ciências Sociais

Politics in the Age of Advanced Technology

Abstract

Prashobh Karunakaran, Man Djun Lee, Vayalooran Karuppan

The Revolutions of 1989 caused the demise of communism leaving only a handful of countries calling themselves
communist. But communism is just a name given to a centralized controlled system albeit with an inclusion of repulsion
for religions. Post 1989, many countries carried on as totalitarian regimes together with controlled acceptance of
religion. Thereby the scene in 2018 is China who still calls herself a communist country, becoming the world’s second
largest economy and European countries increasingly being centrally controlled from Brussels. This has caused a
tremendous resurgence in the acceptance of centrally controlled systems worldwide. This paper also looks at politics
within the framework of currently accepted derivations from high technology and the similarities of these to the ideas
of the Founding Fathers of USA, who understood that the successful economy of their newly formed British colony
was clearly due to the citizens being allowed to bloom their innate talents.