Futuribili. Rivista di studi sul futuro e di previsione sociale. 2020, n. 1/2, Vol. XXV

At the very beginning of the 21st century, humanity has undergone great chang-es and has faced great challenges. These changes and challenges are visible on technological, economic, environmental, and political platforms. Humankind today has more power than it has ever had, and feels more insecure than ever before. This discrepancy between the feeling of power and the feeling of insecurity spurs a “new culture of the global power structure” which is increasingly seeking its new philosophical and cultural authenticity, ideological and political transparency, and a new strategy for the survival of humanity. The multilateral competition of neoliberal capitalism is no longer able to open wider perspectives for the devel-opment of a new global digital economy. Neoliberal capitalism is no longer able to respond effectively to the global political chaos that is increasingly visible and aggressive on the hori-zon of authoritarian populist rhetoric that threatens to grow into the mainstream of global social changes. By creating control networks through high-speed Internet connections with centralised crisis management centres, so-called “smart grids” are created, which include control of sets of high technologies and energy sources (the energy Internet (EI)), Internet of things (IoT), “Smart cities”, articulating a programme of “a new key of technological de-velopment”, a new concept of “public policy”, which requires a new concept of “responsible and progressive capitalism”, which articulates the vision of humankind in the 21st century.