Aleksandra Katarzyna Przegalińska-Skierkowska (born 18 January 1982) is a Polish

futurist Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abou ...

. She is an

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management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

and

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as well as a

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Kozminski University Kozminski University (formerly known as ''Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management''; in Polish, ''Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego'') is a private, non profit business school in Warsaw, Poland, and is considered to be "Poland’s h ...

Life

Przegalińska is a research fellow at the

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and the Center for Collective Intelligence at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. She is also a visiting scholar at the Labor & Worklife Center at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. In 2014, she defended her Ph.D. in

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

, focusing on phenomenology of virtual entities. Her recent works include ''

Collaborative society Collaborative society is a view of human society defined as encompassing the emerging phenomena of citizen science, collaborative media, digital communication gift economy, peer production, remix culture, and the sharing economy.It relies on vario ...

'' (MIT Press), a 2020 book with

Dariusz Jemielniak Dariusz Jemielniak (born 17 March 1975) is a full professor of management, the head of MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) department at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society ...

, in which she discusses the cooperative turn in the society enabled by technology, and ''Wearable Technologies in Organizations: Privacy, Efficiency and Autonomy in Work'' (2019, Springer), in which she discusses the privacy and efficiency aspects of wearables in organizations. She is a host of a radio show about the future and technology, "Coś Osobliwego" (verbatim ''Something Particular'', a wordplay in Polish meaning also ''Something Singular'', referring to singularity). She is a frequently invited expert in the Polish media, with interviews, among others, for

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Gazeta Wyborcza ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of "real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the g ...

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, Bankier,

Onet Onet.pl is one of the largest Polish web portals. It is owned by the Kraków-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company. According to Alexa rankings, as of October 2017, it was the 45th most popular website worldwide and ...

Forsal ''Forsal.pl'' is a Polish language web site covering financial and business news. It has a readership of approximately 500.000 unique visitors per month and has roughly 3 million page views per month. Forsal.pl has been ranked among the 10 most in ...

, or

Krytyka Polityczna ''Krytyka Polityczna'' (; "The Political Critique") is a circle of Polish left-wing intellectuals gathered around a journal of the same title founded by Sławomir Sierakowski in 2002 but is open to voices from across the political spectrum. The n ...

.''Sztuczna inteligencja wykryła epidemię koronawirusa szybciej niż człowiek'', Krytyka Polityczna
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Przegalińska, Aleksandra 1982 births Living people Kozminski University faculty Futurologists 21st-century Polish philosophers Polish women philosophers Polish social scientists 21st-century Polish women scientists University of Warsaw alumni Women social scientists