This section presents a foresight exercise, focusing on envisioning the future and exploring potential societal scenarios for the year 2050, and considering the full adoption of advanced technology frameworks. Throughout 2023, partner VTT facilitated foresight workshops in Barcelona and Brussels, in collaboration with experts to co-create these possible future scenarios
Report on future scenarios
This report analyses societal challenges, risks and opportunities related to the six technology frameworks featured in FORGING. The FORGING foresight process is introduced, with an overview of futures thinking, methodology and key results in the form of collected signals (i.e. megatrends, trends and weak signals), insights collected from interviews with technology experts, and mind maps derived from workshops.
A horizon scanning was conducted, and six futures scenarios workshops held together with experts in each of the 6 technology frameworks.
Each technology framework has its own specific impacts, however societal concerns related to emerging technologies present common features. These common concerns include difficulties in drafting policies for fast-evolving technologies and the trends indicating the concentration of political power, wealth and technological capabilities in fewer hands. Bleak outlook on the future state of the environment was also a common concern.
Cartoon Theseus
The stories created in Foresights scenarios Workshops are turned into visual stories that illustrate the societal possibilities of emerging technology in a narrative, easy-to-approach manner. The stories are brought together by a metanarrative of a logbook of the ship Theseus, sailing the seas of the Earth into the year 2050. Through joining the travels of Theseus, we are learning about different imaginaries of ways of life, affected by novel technologies.
Factsheet on D3.1
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