According to a report from ARK – invest (the monetary fund which analyses the frontiers of innovation), we can currently pinpoint seven mega-trends on the future that we’re facing already. Artificial intelligence, robotics, electric mobility, space industry, crypto-currencies and cutting edge personalized medicine – based on RNA and genomic editing. These trends are groundbreaking, and they’ll potentially be able to revolutionize our lives. The seventh trend is the collection of all the dangers we see in exponential vertical acceleration – without brakes nor regulation – the rise of the new privileged, the effect on occupation, environmental devastation and even the existential risk for humanity due to the rise of thinking machines. Tomorrow is uncertain, always on the cusp between the bright futures harked by the techno-optimists, and the dire predictions of the more cautious “dystopians”.

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