A technology lens into the operationalization of resiliency and sustainability post Covid-19

Abstract

Increasing concerns regarding the effects of climate change coupled with extraordinary societal challenges have correspondingly heightened the need to operationalize resiliency to foster socio-economic inclusivity, liberal politics and sustainable development. Technology, society, the environment and ecology are inextricably interwoven and, the inherent vulnerabilities of any delineation of systems are subject to complex transient, intransigent and evolutionary stressors arising from supervening casus fortuitus and other vis major events. This paper posits that memory is an elementary form of technology, and reiterates the view that nature’s endowment of enduring memory founds the twinned concepts of resilience and sustainability. The discourse expounds the uncertainty spectrum in terms of opportunity, risk, reliability and resilience and reinforces the belief that the fusing and application of the various forms of technology provide the means for operationalizing resiliency and sustainability in the current digital age of the anthropocene era of Society 5.0.