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Society & Technology in 2025: Impacts
A different look at how technologies will impact global cultures and socities in 2025. From a human-centred perspective.
As we look ahead to 2025, most pundits are focused on what new technologies will come to market, from blinking gadgets to of course, new AI tools. This is fine. But we often mistake the arrival of new technologies for societal progress. So we rarely consider how these technologies reshape societies and cultures and give us new meaning as humans.
So in this article I’m taking that different approach. I’m looking at how technologies from Artificial Intelligence to genetic engineering and such, might impact our societies in the coming years. All while trying to take a more global view, rather than the usual Western-oriented ones we see the most.
Current and emerging technologies like Generative AI are fundamentally altering our sociocultural fabric, from our family dynamics to the broader domains of civic engagement, cultural expression and geopolitics. We are entering the time of living with algorithmic systems, a phase that Homo sapiens have never before experienced.
It is a time when we are redefining what it means to be human, to co-exist with technologies that augment us cognitively in real-time. The years ahead area high-stakes game on whether these transformations will enhance or…