Fear About Digital Technologies?

Are we ready to face the inevitable risks?

MyThoo //
TechLife Balance
Published in
4 min readFeb 7, 2024

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Digital technologies are advancing ever more impetuously.

Image consisting of two parts. One depicts the digital technologies in which a man is immersed and the other depicts an employee surprised and overwhelmed by technology
The pace of digital innovation is impetuous and fearful. Image created by DALL·E, OpenAI’s image generation model.

Between Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Satellite Networks, the Internet Of Things, and Virtual or Augmented Reality, we are destined to live increasingly in digital technology.

The benefits are significant for our health, economy, work, and everyday life.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed or anxious about the pace of digital innovation and its implications, you’re not alone.

Image consisting of two parts. One depicts an office worker leaving the office with a box of his belongings in Lehman Brothers style. The other describes the fear induced in a colleague by this scene.
The new AI systems are a source of deep anxiety for a lot of people. Image created by DALL·E, OpenAI’s image generation model.

However, it’s essential to be aware of several risks.

Some of these risks may still be unknown to most people.

Critical Technologies and Risks

In the next few paragraphs, I will give you my summary of the next 15 years or so.

Many of us worry about how these technologies might infringe on our privacy or threaten our job security or ethical implications.

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MyThoo //
TechLife Balance

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