As the human footprint permeates ecosystems and societies as an effect of the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2006), the already close connection among environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability has become more significant than ever (Floridi, 2022). Additionally, the pace at which disruptive technologies are advancing following a super-linear scale (West, 2017) raises new questions and challenges in terms of resource allocation and business (re)configuration as well as policy and regulation. Since the earliest civilizations, technology has profoundly shaped humans’ lives and landscapes, since it resets the clock and prevents collapse by allowing available resources to continually re-frame and reconfigure among each other (Rosenberg, 1982; Mokir, 2011; Arthur, 2009). Today, this hasn’t changed, as digitalization is defining new paradigms and pervading processes and activities along the three dimensions of sustainability. Daily-life digitalization and sustainability are among the most pervasive megatrends of the 21st century (Kuhn & Margellos, 2022), dominating the public debate in recent years. The rise of great opinion movements (e.g., blacklivesmatter, fridaysforfuture) and the increasing awareness of the impact of climate change on our lives, together with the recent achievements in policy regulation and reporting (e.g., the GRI standards, the Global Compact, the Sustainable Development Goals by the U.N, the ESG metrics) on the one hand; the new emerging digital technologies (e.g., AI, augmented reality, blockchain), together with the rise of the Metaverse on the other, have made sustainability a central issue to investigate. However, there is still a little investigation into the implications and impacts that global digitalization may generate on sustainability. While sustainability is a structural issue, i.e. longitudinal to every economic, environmental, and social infrastructure, digitalization is a product of human activity: this means it should be designed, produced, and conceived as 'sustainable'. This call aims at investigating sustainability at the gate of the metaverse.
RESPONSIBLE AND RESPONSIVE INNOVATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE (SEVILLE, SPAIN) / Iandolo, Francesca; Maielli, Giuliano; La Sala, Antonio; Vito, Pietro. - (2023). (Intervento presentato al convegno RESPONSIBLE AND RESPONSIVE INNOVATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE tenutosi a Siviglia nel 17 giugno -21 giugno 2023).
RESPONSIBLE AND RESPONSIVE INNOVATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE (SEVILLE, SPAIN)
Francesca Iandolo;Antonio La Sala;Pietro Vito
2023
Abstract
As the human footprint permeates ecosystems and societies as an effect of the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2006), the already close connection among environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability has become more significant than ever (Floridi, 2022). Additionally, the pace at which disruptive technologies are advancing following a super-linear scale (West, 2017) raises new questions and challenges in terms of resource allocation and business (re)configuration as well as policy and regulation. Since the earliest civilizations, technology has profoundly shaped humans’ lives and landscapes, since it resets the clock and prevents collapse by allowing available resources to continually re-frame and reconfigure among each other (Rosenberg, 1982; Mokir, 2011; Arthur, 2009). Today, this hasn’t changed, as digitalization is defining new paradigms and pervading processes and activities along the three dimensions of sustainability. Daily-life digitalization and sustainability are among the most pervasive megatrends of the 21st century (Kuhn & Margellos, 2022), dominating the public debate in recent years. The rise of great opinion movements (e.g., blacklivesmatter, fridaysforfuture) and the increasing awareness of the impact of climate change on our lives, together with the recent achievements in policy regulation and reporting (e.g., the GRI standards, the Global Compact, the Sustainable Development Goals by the U.N, the ESG metrics) on the one hand; the new emerging digital technologies (e.g., AI, augmented reality, blockchain), together with the rise of the Metaverse on the other, have made sustainability a central issue to investigate. However, there is still a little investigation into the implications and impacts that global digitalization may generate on sustainability. While sustainability is a structural issue, i.e. longitudinal to every economic, environmental, and social infrastructure, digitalization is a product of human activity: this means it should be designed, produced, and conceived as 'sustainable'. This call aims at investigating sustainability at the gate of the metaverse.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
