technologies have never stopped evolving, new languages, new paradigms, new concepts emerging all the time. for instance, cloud computing, BOT... even front-end technologies almost change daily.
Also, AI software has been developed and gradually penetrated into business, eliminating repeated human tasks, in the end, their jobs. Ethics is one of the major concerns.
Pandemics, to some degree, has pushed Metaverse to move forward more rapidly.
also, humans can not be humans forever - this vision is more and more clear.