Amazon’s Werner Vogels predicts positive tech trends for 2025
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com Inc., is looking toward a year where companies, workers and consumers all leverage technology to make the world better.
Vogels sees energy efficiency and improved disaster preparedness among the top technology trends of the coming year, along with a mission-driven tech workforce. He has publicly released his official top five 2025 technology predictions.
Highlights of each prediction follow.
1. Mission-driven workforce
According to Vogels, the future workforce will not only be driven by financial success and career progression, but by a deeper desire to create positive change in the world. He advises that organizations and businesses acknowledging this shift and allowing employees to engage in purpose-driven work will have the best chance for long-term success.
2. Energy efficiency drives innovation
Vogels predicts that surging power demand and climate change will drive a transformation in how energy is generated, stored and consumed. He says that the expansion of nuclear energy and continuing growth of renewable energy will lay the groundwork for a future where energy infrastructure is a catalyst for innovation instead of a constraint.
[READ MORE: Amazon to invest more than $500 million to develop nuclear energy]
3. Technology-aided discovery of truth
Vogels forecasts that a new wave of AI-powered tools will democratize investigative capabilities, accelerate fact-checking, and begin to close the gap between the spread of misinformation and its debunking.
4. Open data drives decentralized disaster preparedness
According to Vogels, disaster resilience will be fundamentally transformed through the power of hyperlocal, community-sourced data. This shift will redefine disaster management from a top-down, reactive model to one that is proactive, decentralized, and community-driven.
5. Intention-driven consumer technology takes hold
As more people look to avoid constant distraction, Vogels says devices are emerging that prioritize mindfulness, intentionality, and deep thinking over continuing stimuli. In 2025 and beyond, technology will empower rather than distract us — and we’ll be better for it.
To see more of Vogels’s 2025 technology predictions, click here.
