Road-mapping the Digital Revolution: Visions from COST Foresight 2030 (An exercise in multi-disciplinarity)
Abstract
From innovation triggered by user virtual communities to remote surgery and new financial instruments, the creative power of individuals is being fostered at proportions previously unseen. The main driver enabling such a pace of innovation, scientific progress, and user adoption is the Digital Revolution. One consequence is that interrelationships between science, technology and society are increasing in complexity and harder to understand. COST Foresight 2030 is an initiative encompassing a set of events designed to explore a multi-disciplinary vision for a future permeated and shaped by the digital revolution. This paper describes the vision behind COST Foresight 2030 and highlights several issues that are likely to become central in the next decades.