As this edition of Trends has made abundantly clear, our world is evidently set on continuing to evolve in its use of technology and becoming (even) “smarter” than it is at present. But only when advances in artificial intelligence have actually enabled machines to think for themselves, only when the transformation toward what we think of as smart cities has become a global phenomenon, and only when the process of digital transformation that many companies are currently undertaking has become past history, will we be able to analyze with more precision what the actual costs of this process were.