Trend Shift toward strategic technology foresight linked to national strategy

Summary

Foresight is shifting from forecasting technologies in isolation to strategic technology foresight that observes how technology reshapes society and links those insights to national strategy. The report points out that technology is increasingly entwined with security and politics, while goals such as tackling the climate crisis gain weight. At the same time the rapid development and spread of AI and other breakthrough technologies is sharply increasing technology's impact on society. KISTEP positions its seventh S&T foresight survey as strategic technology foresight to respond to the polycrisis and uncertainty of an era of great transition. Its conclusions add that deepening global uncertainty and radical scientific progress make it more important to observe interactions between social and technological change and connect them to national strategy.