Till what extent cyber tech is impacting society?

This paper provides an overview on the "new normal" or "near future society" starting from the most significant events that characterised the evolution and pervasiveness of cyber technology. Digital transformation is reshaping society impacting lifestyles. Are we facing a significant turning point toward a “New normal”? The research analyses, starting from the most significant events that characterised the evolution and pervasiveness of cyber technology, the present, mid-, and long-term impacts of this transformation. The impact on society due to the acceleration of the digital transition during the pandemic. The desire of decision makers to go digital, sometimes forgetting some wise principles. The goal to digitise as much as possible reaching a cyber-based society relaying on “digital”, this pillar is quite fragile, potentially subject to attacks and suitable for top-down discrimination. The Internet distributes all-over the world “homogenised” content that can jeopardise cultural identities. Additional potential drawbacks due to lives spent in cyber-bubbles, cyber-mediation of human relations, citizens experience the world thanks to a cyber device mediated approach, mainstream influence on opinion dynamics and nudging. Here it comes the potential role of the Metaverse. Cyber-loneliness, one of the foreseeable risks is a kind of addiction to this “parallel life” training users to shift from real to Meta-life blurring the border between them.