Do we have the ethical guardrails for what’s next in tech?

Do we have the ethics for the metaverse? What have we learned from the development of today’s Internet experience that can help us figure out what comes next? — AFP Relaxnews

Historian Robert Hughes coined the elegant phrase “the shock of the new” to describe the influence of technology on imagination. Hughes’ original formulation was around the artist, but the shock extends to policymakers, technologists and practitioners of all sorts both in and out of government.

The shocks can and do emanate from catalysts as diverse as mobility and artificial intelligence to VR, AR and other building blocks of the metaverse to climate change and nuclear energy.