Chapter 5

A Beautiful New World?

L’utopie est ce qui est en contradiction avec la réalité

(Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality)

—Albert Camus,French philosopher (1913 to 1960)

Few are unaware of the drastic changes that the ongoing digital transformation initiatives have wrought on the commercial world. But when all industries, in various degrees, have been digitalized, will that cumulatively also affect our societies? If so, how? Are we experiencing what in effect is a bottom-up revolution driven by this technological paradigm shift?

We already know that the digital economy is quite specific and demanding in terms of the kind of employees it is looking for, so what will that do to the educational system? Can it affect our welfare ...

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