Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond
We have entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. From clean energy innovations unlocking new avenues for sustainable development to AI-powered tools tipping the scales in the fight against disinformation, we are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. The rise of intention-driven technologies is reshaping our relationship with the digital world, promoting focus and well-being over mere attention capture. All the while, a mission-driven workforce is emerging, more eager to tackle hard human problems than chase the bottom line. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will not just be possible—it will redefine the way we think about success.
Five tech predictions for 2025 and beyond:
- The workforce of tomorrow is mission-driven
- A new era of energy efficiency drives innovation
- Technology tips the scales in the discovery of truth
- Open data drives decentralized disaster preparedness
- Intention-driven consumer technology takes hold
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Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels: Tech predictions for 2025
About the author
Dr. Werner Vogels, VP & CTO at Amazon.com
Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s customer-centric technology vision. As one of the forces behind Amazon’s approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations. Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
