This roundtable series report documents The Digital Economist’s December 2025 convening, Power, Technology, Humanity: A New Alignment, which brought together cross-sector leaders to examine how accelerating technologies are reshaping economic power, governance structures, and human agency. The report situates emerging systems—agentic AI, tokenized assets, digital currencies, satellite networks, and data-center infrastructure—as the new operating layers of the global economy. Rather than treating these developments as isolated innovations, the series explores how power is increasingly embedded in platforms, protocols, and infrastructure—and asks what it will take to align these systems with dignity, resilience, and shared prosperity.
Across ten thematic sessions—spanning agricultural tokenization, ethical AI governance, women’s health, humanoid robotics, digital money, climate resilience, education, space infrastructure, and regenerative data systems—the report surfaces three consistent through-lines: governance must become reflexive and adaptive; equity must be embedded in incentives, data, and ownership structures; and infrastructure decisions now carry moral weight, shaping whether technological systems deepen extraction or strengthen regenerative, inclusive economies. Each session distills tensions between innovation speed and institutional capacity, global frameworks and local realities, automation and human judgment, and efficiency gains and distributional fairness.
The report does not offer a manifesto or prescriptive blueprint. Instead, it synthesizes expert contributions into a structured exploration of how leadership, policy, system design, and cultural context must evolve together. Its central contention is that alignment will not emerge organically through market forces alone. Deliberate stewardship—grounded in accountability, inclusivity, and long-term institutional legitimacy—is required to ensure that power, technology, and humanity are consciously shaped as interdependent elements of a new global operating system.
