Protingas valdymas ir ekspertiniai laimės įrankiai

ENThe Fourth industrial revolution and ensuing automatization fundamentally alters the way we live, work, and relate to one another. People become even more connected by smart devices with unprecedented processing power and the workers are encouraged to get even more flexible. The proponents of “govtech” initiatives say that the human expertise could be augmented whenever we employ better working tools, which could also make workers happier. Today, biometric data gathering and data mining help create better smart tools while at the same time they even stronger propel the phenomenon of surveillance capitalism. The goal to create new tools, which monitor, survey and mold your emotional status, although being ambivalent in ethical terms, is not shunned by EU research and innovation programs. In Lithuania, there exist first attempts and calls by governmental institutions to create such tools of happiness by measuring six emotions – the idea of “Emotion measurement” is presented by governmental agency as benevolent post-pandemic medical device. The article discusses this idea in terms of innovation policy (page 2).