[A Sip of Books] 2023 Megatrends, KAIST Future Strategy

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Every year, industry experts gather to forecast the mega trends of our society and present future strategies in the 'KAIST Future Strategy' series. The theme for 2023 is ‘Tech-geopolitics,’ which means technology determines the hegemony of international politics. It covers everything in one volume?from the current state of the 21st-century technology hegemony war led by the United States and China, to seven ‘game changer’ technologies such as advanced bio, 6G, and AI semiconductors, and even a 100-year strategy to become a technology-leading nation. Additionally, it provides broad and deep insights never seen before through upgraded STEPPER keywords across seven fields: society, technology, environment, population, politics, economy, and resources.

Big Blur is a kind of neologism derived from the English word ‘blur,’ meaning ‘to become unclear.’ It refers to the phenomenon where the boundaries between online and offline, products and services become blurred, and the boundaries between industries and sectors rapidly disappear. Cases such as IT companies entering the financial business or distribution companies venturing into media content business all prove this. From "Digital Transformation and the Era of Big Blur"

Another reason why gene editing can be a core of technological hegemony is related to the weaponization of food. With climate change, reduction of arable land due to industrialization, global population growth, and the addition of war issues, the weaponization of food and threats to food security have increased. Especially, as various environmental stresses caused by climate change increase, the development of resistant crop varieties is urgently needed. In this regard, the utilization of advanced bio technologies such as gene editing and synthetic biology is becoming increasingly important. From "The Technological Battlefield Intensified by the Pandemic, Advanced Bio Technologies"

It is no exaggeration to say that we have now entered the era of BoT, Battery of Things. BoT is a concept similar to IoT, Internet of Things, meaning that batteries are applied to everything. Most electronic devices are shifting to portable types and necessarily apply secondary batteries. Recently, along with the growth of the electric vehicle market, the secondary battery market is also expanding at a very rapid pace. It is even predicted to grow more than eightfold over the next ten years. From "Next-generation Secondary Batteries Leading the Era of Affordable, Long-lasting, and Lightweight Charging"

KAIST Future Strategy 2023 | Written by KAIST MoonSul Future Strategy Graduate School Future Strategy Research Center | Kim Young-sa | 632 pages | 25,000 KRW

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