A brief history of PTC
Many years ago, the OECD published a report indicating that by 2040, as many as 40% of jobs in Poland could disappear or undergo significant changes as a result of technological developments. These findings intrigued us – a group of managers and researchers – so much that we decided to pool our knowledge, experience and potential to address this issue in depth. The changes taking place in labour relations signify profound cultural and civilisational transformations, occurring at an unprecedented pace. From this reflection, not only preliminary courses of action began to emerge, but also the vision for our organisation.
In practice, it soon became clear that the institutional framework within which we operate is ill-suited to the interdisciplinary nature of the issues under consideration. This is because they require comprehensive strategies and actions that go beyond the divisions that are now firmly established.
We also came to the conclusion that utilising predictive tools and supporting their development is, for a start, the most sensible way to mitigate the immense systemic risks we face. At that time, hardly anyone was talking about so-called artificial intelligence — it remained largely the stuff of imagination and science fiction films. It was only a few years later that the pace of change accelerated rapidly, and the first systemic mechanisms for building resilience and competitiveness began to emerge from our work, along with reflections on Poland’s place in the newly emerging world order. The future — including the digital one — doesn’t seem so daunting once we can picture it.