There has always existed an interplay between humankind and technology’s promise to improve our lives. Seldom, and certainly not in modern times, has the adoption of technology accelerated as quickly as it has with the Covid-19 pandemic. In the past year, the Lion's share of work and social interactions has gone digital and thus technologies have permeated the fabric of everyday life. This has created both immense opportunities and complex challenges. On one hand, citizens are now able to engage with the world from their living rooms and have access to an unprecedented breadth of knowledge. Technology is revolutionizing healthcare in areas such as diagnosis and vaccine production. In the case of tedious and dangerous tasks, we have been able to substitute humans with robots, and algorithms for our advanced computation. On the other hand, there has been a decline in trust of democracy and an increase in political polarization. Europeans are increasingly seeing that this is made worse by social media and are, in general, feeling more negatively towards the Big Tech companies. This is in part because geopolitical conflict accompanied our migration to the digital domain. It now threatens to splinter the internet, and to disrupt supply chains and companies. Whilst the relevance of technology and the digital domain is increasing at an exponential rate, much remains unregulated. The digital economy relies on the wholesale of private data; the digital discussion is filtered through algorithms that do not favor veracity and reason; and the geopolitical conflict is lacking new governance solution. We have before us a unique opportunity, thanks to technological development, to improve our lives, societies, and the international system. The question is: what should be done? This is the key motivation behind our annual report, European Tech Insights, which investigates how citizens see their relationship with technology and how we can actively shape the future accordingly. Indeed, this was the catalyst for the creation of the Center for the Governance of Change. Through the Center, we are researching precisely how emerging technologies are reshaping the world and, more importantly, how to govern this change in areas from geopolitics and data privacy to economics. This is in line with IE University’s broader goal to reinvent higher education through technological change. We are thrilled to present you with this year’s European Tech Insights and its focus on what we as humans can delegate to robots and AI, how to handle the geopolitical conflict over technology, and the ways in which technology can strengthen our democracy. It is our hope that this report will encourage you to join the discussion on how rapid technological change can be governed for the benefit of society