I am most worried about our almost complete loss of privacy, the sea of personal information on us that is out in the wild, and how this can be abused by anyone, ranging from tech monopolies, autocratic governments, and powers that are out to undermine freedom and democracy.
The unprecedented tech revolution - which has merely just started - together with failure of prevailing economic models (a root cause of most problems, e.g. increasing wealth inequality, large-scale environmental destruction), are the biggest danger to our society and make the CHT mission most urgent and pressing!
To use Tristan Harris’ own words we are here to “help avoid civic breakdown and prevent future wars”.
This then I consider most important issue to tackle, more so than other aspects mentioned above, which are just side-effects that we should also deal with along the way.
A positive and bright future, where we apply tech in spectacular, beautiful and beneficial ways is very well possible, but only when many more people drop their wait-and-see approach and actively help tip the scale in the right direction again…