The majority of humanity is now connected to the internet.
As thousands of machines, devices and native enterprises join the network daily, more and more human energy is directed towards it. Amidst this accelerating digital expansion, existing social issues are being recreated at a greater scale and a faster rate.

Despite having democratised access to information, scalable social coordination and unprecedented distribution efficiency, systemic issues like limited access to opportunities, skills (re)development, concentration of power, privacy violations, biases and discrimination are being replicated online.

Additionally, with development increasing in the digital sphere, more sophisticated problems like surveillance, misinformation, phishing, deplatforming, censorship, fraud, identity theft, financial hacks and data breaches have surfaced as attack vectors.

The nature and complexity of both, opportunities and vulnerabilities, stands to evolve with the integration of artifical intelligence into society.

Migration patterns also indicate an increasing reliance on digital interactions, whether people opt for the proximity and scale-based advantages of existing metropolitan cities, the benefits of off-grid living, or leveraging remote work and thereby enabling the growth of new urban cores.

Cumulatively, these trends and occurrences illustrate expanding digital footprints, which create a significant surface area for technology-driven solutions to rethink trust mechanisms, engineer new privacy standards, offer alternative forms of education, improve ties, democratise access to markets, and empower consumers, while leveraging artificial intelligence to augment human efforts; initiatives to make society safer, stronger and more equitable.