Technology

Abstract

This chapter asserts that huge technological change is underway. The COVID-19 pandemic response offered opportunities for trialling out new technologies: RNA-based therapeutics, track and trace, digital propaganda, and technological surveillance. The greatest challenge to humanity is new technology and who has control of it. As Web 3.0 and ChatGPT rolls out, people must ensure that they support and use uncensored social media platforms and meta search engines. That should use cash as long as possible ( Giambruno, 2024 ), despite its declining value, establish offline bartering systems, and resist centralised cryptocurrencies for decentralised ones when they inevitably replace fiat currency, and they must understand how distributed ledgers and blockchain have the potential to end corruption.