FuturICT Blog: Genie out of the bottle

An essay external pageGenie out of the bottle: The digital revolution on its waycall_made published on FuturICT.blogspot.ch.

The information revolution, or "digital" revolution, may fundamentally transform our economy and societies within a short time. We need to prepare ourselves for this transformation and the new era to come. We might just have 20 years for this. Even though we may dislike such socio-economic change, we will probably not be able to stop it. While the breath-taking advances in information and communication technologies are challenging us, they also create great opportunities we haven’t had in hundred years. If we understand the fundamentally new logic of this digital future world and use its forces for our purposes, we will be able to benefit tremendously and fix a number of problems humanity has long been struggling with!