Is cyber tech impacting society?

Starting from the fifth anniversary of the international UNESCO IFAP conference “Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age” and the different contributions provided by participants these years this paper provides a short insight on the evolution of the main impacts due to the digital transformation starting from the pandemic that was considered one of the turning points and a real booster of this transformation as the key opportunity to ensure a basic level of interaction. Starting from the actual “fluid” context as the result of a mix of different crisis the evolution of the impacts on different sectors is shortly depicted. 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. 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.