How Is Technology Changing Society?
Information technologies are playing a key role in how we’re reimagining our societies globally. It’s scary but also exciting!
In the liminal time between night and day, a teen in Tokyo trades cryptocurrencies as her grandad sleeps. A coder in Berlin fixes a bug in some code that will ensure the sleeping residents of Buenos Aires have a smooth commute to work in the morning. We live in a phygital world where the digital and physical merge more everyday. Societies around the world are changing at a dizzying pace.
Societies are dismantling the systems and ways of running our societies faster than ever in history. This isn’t a statement of hype or alarmism. Social norms, power dynamics and structures along with global cultural transmission are all undergoing monumental changes. This is both scary and incredibly exciting at the same time.
While it is turbulent now, what is next is, as history shows us, a newly evolved society. The difference this time is that it means broader changes across more of the globe than in previous periods.
I’m covering some rather large theories and concepts in a short article that could really be a book, or a few, in and of itself.
Perhaps the place to start is to look at bureaucracies, both in the public and private sectors. While the whole idea of…
