Homo Digitalis: How digitalisation is making us more human

Thierry Geerts, CEO of Google Belgium and Luxembourg, examines the potential and responsibilities of the digital revolution in Homo digitalis. He highlights innovative initiatives and encourages individuals, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to embrace the digital future for a more human and inclusive society.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 24 August 2022
Publisher: Lannoo

The digital revolution is accompanied by great expectations and great fear. Thierry Geerts reduces the digital revolution to its true proportions and shows that we control the impact of technology ourselves: technology becomes what we make of it. Few are better placed than the author to clearly define the potential, tasks, and responsibility that await each and every one of us.

After Digitalis drew up the contours of the new digital world, Homo digitalis now describes how we can appropriate it so that digitalisation will benefit humanity. But instead of trying to convince at all costs, Thierry Geerts puts things in perspective. With great expertise, he guides us through numerous groundbreaking initiatives that start-ups and companies in Europe have often developed.

This book couldn't have come out at a better time. Change can be scary for many, but above all, it brings many opportunities. Thierry Geerts fantastically explains how Digitalis can be an inclusive place where social mobility and equality are self-evident. Now it's up to our entrepreneurs, policymakers, and each of us as individuals to gear up and resolutely opt for the digital future.

Think about the reasons for technology. That is the challenge that Thierry Geerts takes on with gusto and enthusiasm in this fascinating book.

Dimension: 210 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789401485623