How can society close the gap between technology and institutions? What role can policy-makers and business leaders play in establishing enforceable guardrails for technological progress? Azeem Azhar, a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Risk, and the creator of the Exponential View, a global platform for in-depth tech analysis, explains how the gap between technology, institutions and society could lead to growing “techno pessimism” in the future.