The lives of people in the 21st century are impacted by fundamental global transformations. Digitisation, globalisation and the increasingly apparent effects of climate change are altering social coexistence on an unprecedented scale. Around the world, the widespread use of new media and digital technologies are changing traditional labour-based societies into flexible knowledge-based societies. Categories of space and time, and of privacy and working, are undergoing a radical redefinition. The identity of the individual and of societies at large is increasingly up for reconsideration, and new directions for the future of life on our planet are needed.
Against the backdrop of these
