By 2025, solar will be the cheapest energy globally. In 2040, oil and natural gas are expected to make up nearly 60% of global supplies, while nuclear and renewables will be approaching 25%. Improved efficiency of lighting and home appliances is expected to continue to reduce residential electricity usage. Coal will fall out of favour.
Strategic foresight is not just about preparing a world to leave to younger generations, but it also about preparing the younger generations for the world we are leaving to them. With that in mind, we are reposting from the blog Prepare with Foresight which is focused on contingency planning and disaster preparedness. Intro What…
Geopolitical issues and rapid technological change threaten traditional supply chains. Read on to discover where the opportunities lie in the future and take action accordingly. What is changing? Supply chain The success of Indiana’s advanced manufacturing industry depends on natural resources and a complex global supply chain that’s put at risk by environmental change. Low…
Within the next decade or so 100s of large satellites and about 2,000 micro and nano satellites will be launched into Earth’s orbit. Read on to discover where Athena, our robot, thinks there are opportunities and risks associated with a burgeoning space industry. Athena’s forecast Start year: 2015 Likely Tipping point: 2027 Likely End year:…
Updates to Shaping Tomorrow We have made several changes to Shaping Tomorrow recently. To see the full list, please visit: https://dstl.shapingtomorrow.com/webtext/814. One of our most significant improvements is our new filtering system to address the increasingly biased and often fraudulent news that has been seeping into the internet’s news sources for the past few years. On…
Pressures from potential pandemics, the environment we live in, ageing populations and funding threats take centre stage in this week’s Trend Alert. Read on to discover where the opportunities lie in the future, consider how these could affect you and your organization and act accordingly.
In our recent article we were interested to investigate to what extent successful business development in Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) markets was leveraging on structured corporate foresight approaches. BOP markets serve more than 4 billion people that live on $2-4 a day. Prominent success stories such as micro lending in Bangladesh helped make the idea popular…
In coming decades, jobs will disappear due to the development of AI. Our robot, Athena, finds that most forecasts do not make similar projections for the many jobs that will be created by new technologies. The forecasts below are indicative of disruptive changes coming to many livelihoods. You can watch where the best jobs will…
There will be a global decline in the proportion of the populations in paid employment in the coming decades resulting from automation and other technological innovations. Robots and technological advances will take more than 5 million jobs from humans over the next 5 years. Athena’s forecast Start year: 2016 Likely Tipping point: 2027 Likely End…
2017 will be the year that digital risk insurance really gets off the ground. Read on to discover where, Athena, our robot thinks your job, your home, your vehicle, your life and organization will be affected by the sweeping changes that threaten to completely disrupt the traditional insurance business models; much like the changes that…
The next 10 years is going to see an exponential growth in remote work and delivery in many sectors. Demand for technologies that facilitate communication and interaction will rise. The use of remote monitoring is expected to continue its growth at a compound annual rate of almost 50% for at least the next 5 years.…
Around-the-World 24-Hour Conversation on the Future to Celebrate World Future Day March 1st to Be Hosted Online by the Millennium Project International futurist organizations have joined forces to invite their members and the public to come online at 12 noon in their time zone to explore how we can help build a better future. Washington,…
