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Foreword\n\nWe live in an age characterised by disruptivetechnological change. I have found it both challengingand engaging over the past few years to help shape theEuropean Commission's response to the changes broughtby digital technologies. We see the benefits every day ofour lives through digital innovations such as app stores,3D printing and new forms of social media.  \nOur enthusiastic adoption of ICT translates intoeconomic growth. According to the World EconomicForum, digitization has boosted global economic outputby €142 billion and created 6 million jobs over the pasttwo years. Changes and challenges brought by digital technologies will not stop, but continue. Digitaltechnologies will continue to affect every aspect of our lives as citizens and consumers.  \nICT is not the only change agent at work in the world. There are other powerful forces in play that willtrigger both massive innovation and pose immense challenges to current social structures and systems.We can shape some of these changes, like developmentsin life sciences that will extend the span ofhuman life, making centenarians common place. Others such as climate change are harder for us tomanage and have potentially much wider repercussions. It is extremely difficult for us to imagine howdifferent changes could interact with eachother and what role digital technologies might play in thismuch wider context in the time period 2030-2050.  \nThe Futurium foresight exercise was launched in autumn 2012 with the twin intentions of primingpolicy makers'imaginations and prompting wider debate. The aim was precisely to explore potentialinteractions between different areas of technology, human life and global resources. Foresight has noambition to predict the future as itwill happen, but to explore different futures that might happen.Foresight is excellent therapy for busy policy-makers whose expectations of the future are short termand linear, based on just extending what is happening today.  \nForesight techniques have been refined over many years and ensure that the results of any foresightexercise are not mere guess work, but scientifically grounded. This report has scientific rigour; but Ialso insisted that the Futurium initiative should not be \"just another report by experts from Brussels\" .It has two distinguishing features. First most of the underlying visions are crowd-sourced from a muchwider range of constituencies than the usual experts. We harvested inputs from a wider range ofconstituencies beyond the Brussels bubble, for instance students from the Erasmus network. They willafter all be building the actual future in the 2030-2050 time horizons. Second, the Futurium exercisecontains a philosophical reflection on how our values could be affected by some of these changes andon the choices that will confront us.  \nThose who read this report will find their minds opening wider to the range of potential outcomes.This is one prediction I am confident will come true.  \nNeelie Kroes  \nVice President of the European Commission  \nDG CONNECT – European Commission  \nita l u ueFinal  o nu  2050 Visions and Policy Challenges\"  \nTable of Contents  \n1. Executive Summary ........................................................................................................... .......... 5  \nExploring future policy making models.......................................................................................... ......5  \nEngaging with Futurizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..............6  \nEnvisaging a better world...................................................................................................... ...............6  \nUnfolding the digital revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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