The term fluid society comes from the comparison with melting ice cubes. Whereas until recently people were locked up in their country and culture and only a small elite of scientists, businessmen and the rich could afford to look wider and have a vision of the world, in short, where the world used to be a place where people were locked up in the “ice cube” of their own environment, the digital world suddenly offers the prospect of global communication and connectedness for everyone. Humanity and all people can become digitally mobile through the internet and social media, but also physically mobile, because it is increasingly becoming easier to move to other places that offer more perspective. From a world divided into rigid competing cubes, the world is shifting to one large hyperconnected networked entity, which is currently in full development. A world that can be called fluid, because connections between people and organizations are increasingly determined by mutual affinity, interest, help or work, rather than by origin or ethnicity. As a result of digitalization, the world will start to organize itself differently, a process that has only just begun but will crystallize in the coming decades.

Digitalization will continue. The fluid society is not so much an idealistic world view, or a political ideal, as a term for a different kind of society that is irrevocably coming into being as a result of ongoing digitalization. After all, the digital world is international by nature and connects where there used to be no connections. Whether politicians like it or not, the digitalization, globalizing world will continue, nobody can stop it, but it requires direction.. Politics that used to be primarily national must internationalize, in order. to resolve the many issues that exist. Digitalization offers incredible perspectives to finally arrive at a more just world with a just distribution of knowledge , good education and good healthcare for all. However, digitalization also unleashes negative forces like cybercrime, or too much power for tech giants. Things that threaten to make the world lose its grip.

Other governance required. In short, the digital world increasingly demands control, to curb the negative aspects and allow the positive ones to flourish. How do we rein in cybercriminals, who operate worldwide? How do we prevent superpowers from ending up in a technological or digital race or a struggle for hegemony? How do we curb the power of tech giants? On the other hand, how can the tech giants, perhaps as digital utilities, contribute to a better distribution of wealth worldwide? How can we make education, health care, knowledge, spread better to everyone, so that a more equal playing field will emerge? How are we going to govern the digitizing world now that classical laws and nation-states seem incapable of governing the digital world in a stable way?