Futuresinfocus

By 2030 PWC estimates that 70% of the growth in global GDP will come from AI, the Edge, and the tens of billions of machines, computing, sensing, and learning in real-time. How we, as humans, billions of people, interface with those machines is a whole new world. How these machines, billions of them, talk and work with each other and us is a whole new perspective on the collision paths of technology and the human experience. It is unlikely that we can avoid these challenges because we each will need to work, play and live with and around these new, almost life forms, machines. The design principles for this new world of 2033 and beyond are going to require us to reconnect the way we have evolved rapidly with our intellects through technology, the web, and in the future with a software-centric world with the ways we have evolved (far more slowly) with our empathy. Suppose we cannot re-address these evolutionary disbalances. In that case, we under-deliver on the promise of these technologies to delive