Google's future prediction. In 2025, the new digital era will be a "human" era, not technology

Google's future prediction. In 2025, the new digital era will be a "human" era, not technology

Google, Facebook,

Amazon, Apple are powerful

Google, Facebook, Amazon, state-of-the-art technology platforms, such as Apple, that it's more powerful than the world of people who might think, also these platforms to spread to various social, while successful, world We are convinced that will fundamentally change .

These platforms are undergoing a genuine paradigm shift , similar to the invention of television .

The reason why it has such a powerful power is that its growth power, specifically, the speed at which the platform expands is extremely fast.

Only biological viruses have the power to spread so rapidly, efficiently, and forcefully. So even the people who build, control, and use the platform are empowered.

This is the first time in the history of humanity that so many people have been connected by an instantly responsive network.

If consumers, creators, volunteers, activists, etc. can work together through a common online platform, it will fundamentally change the way society works. The "scale effects" we know about, such as popular music videos that explode on word of mouth and international e-commerce (e-commerce) platforms, are just a sign of what will happen.

Understanding the changes brought about by technology is essential for predicting the future

In the new age of digital, the scale effects of these platforms will make things much faster than they are now. This has important implications for all aspects of society, including politics, economy, media, business and social norms .

The new era of globalization will begin when this scale effect is combined with the feeling that Internet technology creates a "connection to everyone ." That is, globalization of products and ideas.

It is our mission as a member of the industry to thoroughly and honestly examine the effects of products and services produced by the technology industry on people's lives and society.

This is because in the future, the government will have to move forward at an even faster pace, sometimes working with individuals and businesses that cross borders too fast for the law to catch up, and develop rules .

Digital platforms, networks, and products launched by individuals and companies are having a significant impact on digitization on a global scale. Therefore, in order to predict the future of important fields such as politics, business, and diplomacy , we need to properly understand how technology is making significant changes in each field.

What is the future we envision

Coincidentally, just before we started exchanging ideas about the future, a series of big incidents that were shortly representing the problem we were just discussing caught the attention of the world.

For example, the Chinese government launched sophisticated cyber attacks on dozens of US companies, including Google. Also, WikiLeaks has made a spectacular appearance, making hundreds of thousands of electronic confidential information accessible to anyone.

The great earthquake struck Japan and Haiti and destroyed the city, but I was encouraged by the innovative and technologically responsive measures.

In the "Arab Spring", many citizens stood up through SNS, and the revolution was quickly spread. Each of

these movements has shown new perspectives and possibilities for thinking about the future .

We spent a lot of time discussing the implications and implications of these events, analyzing trends and figuring out how to use technology to solve problems. This book was born from this kind of interaction.

Change is unavoidable, but

control is possible

In each chapter, let us explain the future we envision.

The future is a world in which complicated problems on a global scale such as citizenship, state, privacy, and war are piled up, and the world-wide connectivity brings both troublesome problems and solutions .

Throughout this book, we will show you how to correctly guide the emerging technologies and tools that will emerge in large numbers, inform the world, and make it better and richer .

We cannot avoid the changes brought about by technology, but we should be able to control the progress of each step to some extent.

Some of the future predictions I'm going to introduce are some that seem dull and you couldn't, but some were horribly unacceptable (such as automatic warfare with commercial drones), and some I never imagined. there will be. We hope that you will enjoy our predictions and suggestions and encourage us to think.

The future is an

"human" era, not technology

This book is not a book that describes gadgets, smartphone applications, or artificial intelligence. Of course, I will cover these themes as well, but that is not the main topic. This book is about technology.

But more importantly, this is a book about human beings, and how humans interact with, and in the future, how, and how to introduce, apply, and utilize technology in their respective environments. It is a book that discusses whether or not it should be done. And above all, this book is about the importance of human hands leading the new digital age .

Technology has infinite possibilities, but whether it's used for good or bad is entirely up to humans.

Forget the jumble that machines take humans.

What happens in the future depends on us.

The above is the preface to the book The Fifth Power.

More specifically, the book talks about what is happening in the world and what developments await in the "new digital age".

It may be interesting to imagine what the future looks like for them now, in light of recent news about international politics, the economy, Google and other technology companies.