The world is witnessing technology's most momentous intercession in human history reshaping and redesigning how mankind moves forward and determine its future. Emerging technologies and associated innovations, such as AI, blockchain, quantum computing, robotics, virtual reality, augmented reality, nanotechnology and many more, can have major and far-reaching social, economic, cultural and environmental implications and challenges for individual, communities, societies and governments.

Some of these may be intended and desirable while other unintended and undesirable. At the same time, the unfolding global political and economic order, characterised by uncertainty, structural power asymmetry, temerity to use bare-knuckled might and erosion of multilateralism, coupled with the enormity of climate crises has added to the multiplicity and complexity of human ordeals.

Drastic and transformative choices are vitally quintessential to respond to the rapidly brewing disruptions in the way the society arranges or organises itself and secure the survival and sustenance of humans and the planetary ecosystem. The range of new technologies, however, unfurl and expand hope and optimism to explore new pathways and horizons for harnessing greater human potential, productivity and creativity and successfully reshape the future destiny of mankind with the caveat that the focus in human-technology blend should be on value and capability creation where technology becomes human-centric, augments systemic resilience and ensures integrity of the planet's eco-system.

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