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Sep 14, 2020 · Guillen explains the demographic, economic and technological changes we can expect to see across the world in the next decade. In his new book, “ 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, ” Guillen discusses how these changes will affect us in the years to come. During a recent interview on the ...
- 1Universal Work from Home Policies
- 2end of The Open-Plan Office
- 3Digital Commutes and Forced Mindfulness
- 4Carbon Labelling For Consumer Goods
- 5Cashless Biometric Payments
- 5Live Shopping Outside China
- 6Climate Migration
- 7Rewilding
- 8Breakdown of Traditional Education Paths
- 9Mushroom Mania
Remote work due to Covid-19 has exposed the inadequacies of compulsory office attendance; now that people are working from home, it will never go back to the way it used to be; geographical requirements around talent acquisitions will loosen or expand beyond urban centers.
Besides being notoriously difficult for concentration and privacy, an airborne pandemic has lessened the appealof cramming big groups of people shoulder to shoulder in a single room.
Microsoft is reportedly introducing a “virtual commute” featureintended “to create mental bookends for the remote workday”. It is also partnering with the meditation app Headspace to add a new “emotional check-in feature”.
Like nutrition facts on food, listing carbon expenditures related to various products on their packaging or in marketing materials will become a norm. This could be used to justify higher pricesfor certain more “carbon-responsible” items.
You know how iPhone’s Face ID can trigger Apple Pay’s contactless payments? Now imaginethis technology being available in many retail settings, and in various implementations outside of the Apple ecosystem.
Live shopping, already extremely popular in China, is like Instagram Live meets the Home Shopping Network – influencers show-and-tell products live on social media, which have particular discounts and promotions only while the feed is rolling. Forecasters predict this will become globally popularin the near term.
Climate crises will increasingly force huge populations to relocate, causing strain over resource allocation, border issues, cultureand the overall safety of millions.
Cities and suburbs are looking for places to downshift development and add urban greenery to compensate for rising C02emissions. Especially if carbon sequestration is eventually monetized, this could have an impact on land use overall, since owning undeveloped forest land would be profitable. This may point to a shift away from increasingly elusive...
As the pandemic has interrupted schoolingfor millions, new relationships to online learning will continue to flourish, in addition to trends like unschooling, which will penetrate new demographics (beyond the fringe). The weight of student debt and continued class conflict will also draw people away from the traditional path of college education.
Rising vegetarianism and the advancement of home cooking in the pandemic are two drivers for the rising excitement around these versatile fungi. (My firm Nemesis wrote a trend report last year called The Umami Theory of Value, so I am not surprised about this trend!)
- The ocean is running out of fish—but collective action is on the horizon. More than 40 percent of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of the coast, but the ocean’s influence on our planet makes it vital for everyone.
- Our food systems on land are broken, too—but we can fix the business of food. The journey from farm to table is an increasingly complicated one. Food is a big business—supply chains crisscross the globe, with technology infusing every link, and production is higher than ever.
- In fact, we're losing the diversity of life itself—but we can strike a new deal for nature. The word “biodiversity” may not be a household term, but it is, in short, all life on Earth.
- And yes, the planet is still getting hotter—but the demand for climate action is getting louder. We’re now living in a climate crisis. Rising temperatures, rising sea-levels, raging wildfires—the impacts of climate change are already here.
Sep 10, 2021 · "Everything in the world," Cascio said, "every future outcome will have to be examined through the lens of climate." In the future, climate change may only get worse. But how much worse will it get?
Dec 21, 2021 · So what lies ahead? Well into the 2020s, COVID-19 will cast a long shadow over communities, workplaces, markets, battlefields, and negotiating rooms. But even as the centrifugal forces driving the world away from multilateralism and toward multipolarity accelerate, the future is not fixed. We humans have agency in shaping it.
Earth 2050 it's an interactive project that provides a fascinating glimpse at a future based on predictions from futurologists, scientists, and Internet users from all corners of the globe.
