The top risks from technology that we’ll be facing by the year 2040

Weir, Charles and Dennis, Louise (2024) The top risks from technology that we’ll be facing by the year 2040. The Conversation.

Abstract

Experts foresaw rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and connected systems, leading to a much more computer-driven world than nowadays. Surprisingly, though, they expected little impact from two much hyped innovations: Blockchain, a way to record information that makes it impossible or difficult for the system to be manipulated, they suggested, is mostly irrelevant to today’s problems; and Quantum computing is still at an early stage and may have little impact in the next 15 years.