
Their hopes are for improved social relations and social justice that tech and government may come to more highly value the needs of people and planet over profit and power and that smarter and fairer human and technological systems will emerge. Threats they cite include inequality and injustice security risks and privacy’s fall automation misinformation and worsening mental health.

Hopes and worries for the evolution of humans and digital life in the wake of the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic Nearly half of experts worry that changes in the ongoing evolution of digital life tied to the COVID-19 outbreak and societies’ responses to it may make digital life in 2025 mostly worse for most people.
