4Elements of Foresight and Possible Effects of Conceivable Scenarios
“We are in the midst of a long and painful process leading to the emergence, in one form or another, of a global society whose probable structure is not yet imaginable” (King, cited in Ramonet 1999). Recent trends, which the reduction of a certain balance of terror during the Cold War has allowed, are reflected in multifaceted phenomena of association on a European scale of a globalization of trade, on the one hand, but also of environmental concerns, the re-emergence of disjunctive forces, disenchantment, irrationality, xenophobia and other fundamentalisms, self-reflection, competition, etc., on the other hand. In short, the future traced by the liberal system is no longer as secure as it used to be, which imposes a look at possible strategies that condition and are also conditioned by digital technology and the concept of Industry 4.0. Indeed, social structures are supplied by new immediate digital information ...