abstract
- © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.This chapter introduces the challenges that are emerging for the society in the near future, medium-, and long-term future. With inputs from philosophy and practical observations, this chapter focuses on the role that technological development is having in defining the relationship between humankind and environment in the contemporaneity. The term Technocene, distortion of the renowned term Anthropocene, is here proposed to represent the existing condition of the humankind, suddenly placed in a new geological age where it seems to have an incredible power, but whose willingness is strongly influenced by technological dominance.