Decisively Digital

Chapter 5Florian Ramseger: The Future of the Digital Society

Florian Ramseger, economist, data scientist, and futurist

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Florian is an economist turned data scientist with wide-ranging work experience in different countries and in different fields — the private sector, the public sector, and NGOs and international organizations. In his current role as senior product specialist he helps Salesforce customers from different industries implement their data projects. Prior to Salesforce, he was with the International Red Cross, the World Economic Forum, and the WU Vienna business school. Florian has a BSc in economics and geography from University College London and an MSc in economics and economic history from the London School of Economics. Currently based in Frankfurt, Germany, he has spoken and written about how the digital transformation affects organizations and societies, based on his experience with implementing IT projects of various shapes and sizes and drawing on his background as a trained economist.

Alexander: We have talked about the digital transformation of society on several occasions; how do you think about digitalization and how does it change our lives?

Florian: The digital transformation over the last few decades can be broken down into three stages, and each stage comes with its own benefits. When a process has become “digitalized” ...