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April 2024
Other updated content:
- Biomimetic Composites (Weak Signal)
- New Payment Methods (Strengthening)
- Use of Nuclear Power (Strengthening)
- Teaching and Learning 2.0 (Strengthening)
- Visegrad Group (Weakening)
- AI in Warfare (Strengthening)
- Digital Extinction of Languages (old title: Code Shapes Our Speech) (Strengthening)
- Seaweed Potential (Strengthening)
- Increasing Religiousness (Wild Card)
- After Death Services (Wild Card)
- Greentech Bubble Burst (Wild Card)
- Web 3.0 (Strengthening)
- Artificial Meat (Strengthening)
- Smartphone Era (Strengthening)
- Retail in Brick and Mortar Stores (Weakening)
- Mobile Exercise Apps (Strengthening)
- Growing Inequality in the Labour Market (Strengthening)
- Ageing World Population (Strengthening)
- Beating Death Itself (Wild Card)
- Cleantech and Greentech (Strengthening)
- Megaprojects in the Middle East (Strengthening)
- Relocation of Production (old title: Offshoring)
- Weakening Dedication and Engagement (Weak Signal)
- Cryptocurrencies (Strengthening)
- Electric Cars (Strengthening)
- Business Ecosystem Customership (Strengthening)
- Microbial Fuel Cells Generating Electricity (old title: Electricity-Producing Bacteria) (Strengthening)
- Older than Ever (Strengthening)
- Predictive Fashion (Strengthening)
- Arctic Resource Race (Strengthening)
- Privacy Invasion 24/7 (Wild Card)
- Geothermal Energy (Strengthening)
- Digital Nomad Visas and E-Residency (old title: E-Work Visas and E-Residency) (Strengthening)
- Wellbeing for All (Wild Card)
March 2024
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Non-Fungible Tokens (Strengthening)
- AR Glasses and Lenses (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Schools with Teachers (Wild Card)
- AI-Driven Mass Misinformation and Content Fills the Internet (old title: AI-Generated Content Fills the Internet) (Strengthening)
- Use of Nuclear Power (Strengthening)
February 2024
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Capitalism in Crisis (Strengthening)
- Non-Arab Rivals Shaping the Middle East (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Completely Corrupted Internet (Wild Card)
- Facial Recognition (Strengthening)
January 2024
Other updated content:
- Wireless Charging for Electric Cars (Strengthening)
- Military and Police Drones (Strengthening)
- Gut Bacteria Linked to Alzheimer's Disease and Mood (Weak Signal)
- Electric Semi-Trucks (Strengthening)
- Technology War - China vs. USA (Strengthening)
- Global Water Crisis (Strengthening)
- Government Change Leads to Sudden Change in Healthcare (Wild Card)
- Cryptocurrency SolarCoin (Strengthening)
- Bio-Concrete (Strengthening)
December 2023
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Major War in the Middle East (Wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Software Robots as Journalists (Strengthening)
- Print Media (Weakening)
- Social Burnout (Strengthening)
- Semantic Web (Strengthening)
November 2023
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Taiwan Issue (Wild Card)
- Working at the Office (Weakening)
Other updated content:
- Semiconductor & Microchip Investments in the US & EU (Strengthening)
- Value of Degrees (Weakening)
- Internet and Political Mobilisation (Strengthening)
October 2023
Other updated content:
- Predictive Crime Prevention (Strengthening)
- Invisibility Cloak and Stealth Technology (Wild Card)
- Rapid Recycling (Strengthening)
- Pensioner Tourism to Become the Largest Sector of Economy (Wild Card)
- Escalation of the Syrian War (Wild Card)
- Arab-Israeli Normalisation of Relations (Weakening)
September 2023
Updated content (including scenarios):
- High Speed Travel (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- 4D Printing and Shape-Shifting Materials (Strengthening)
- Permafrost (Weakening)
- Omnichannel Shopping (old title: Multichannel Shopping) (Strengthening)
- Digitalisation of Legal Work (Strengthening)
- Cargo Ports Become Unnecessary (Wild Card)
- Electronic Skin & Nanomesh (Strengthening)
- Northern Lights and Arctic Area Tourism (Strengthening)
- Visegrad Group (Weakening)
- Rule of Law (Weakening)
- Hyperloop as a Connector of the World (Wild Card)
August 2023
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Major War in the Middle East (Wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Surface Media (Wild Card)
- Carbon Farming and Farmers' Carbon Credits (Strengthening)
- Complaint Writer Bots and AI Lawyers (Wild Card)
- Escape from Reality (Wild Card)
July 2023
Other updated content:
- Robot Cars and Taxis (Strengthening)
June 2023
Other updated content:
- Military and Police Drones (Strengthening)
- Immersive Global Virtual Worlds (old: Metaverse - The Global Virtual World) (Strengthening)
- Inequality in Latin America (Strengthening)
- Re-election of Donald Trump (Wild Card)
- Digital Tax System (old: Digital Tax) (Wild Card)
- Wearable Fitness Technology (Strengthening)
- Modifiable Home Offices, Isolation Economy (Strengthening)
- Chatbots and Large Language Models (Strengthening)
May 2023
Other updated content:
- Underground Delivery Network - Vacuum Pipes for Goods, Food and Waste (old: Underground Vacuum Waste Management) (Strengthening)
- Asteroid Defence System (Strengthening)
- Cellular Network on the Moon (Strengthening)
- Civil War in the US (Wild Card)
- Deepfake Voices, Videos & Adult Entertainment (old: Deepfake Videos) (Strengthening)
- Ethics of AI (Strengthening)
- Political Hobbyism in Universities and Workplaces (old: Employment Discrimination) (Strengthening)
- 6G Wireless Network (Strengthening)
April 2023
Other updated content:
- Woke and Cancel Culture (Strengthening)
- Non-Chemical Drug Prescriptions (old: Nature and Food as Remedies) (Wild Card)
- Data Consumption & Digital Emissions (old: Data Consumption) (Strengthening)
March 2023
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Big Tech Dominance (GAMMA) (old: Big Five Dominance (GAFAM)) (Strengthening)
- Foreign Influence in Africa (old: Chinese Dominance in Africa) (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- AI Deep Learning & Advanced GPT (Strengthening)
- Counterfeit Products & Brand Forgery (Strengthening)
- Climate Anxiety and Panic Leading to Mental Health Issues (Strengthening)
- Sustainable Reporting (old: Non-Finance Reporting) (Strengthening)
- Uninhabitable Hothouse Earth, Surviving Humans Moving to Mars (Wild Card)
- Reconstruction of Ukraine and Other War and Earthquake Zones (Strengthening)
- All-Inclusive Lifestyle Packages & Leased Standard of Living (old: Leased Standard of Living) (Strengthening)
Updated Radars (please click here for an overview of all updates per radar):
- Future of Geopolitics
- Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine
- Phenomena with Scenarios
- Region Radar: North & South Americas (US, Canada/LATAM)
- Region Radar: Asia-Pacific, Australia & China (APAC)
- Region Radar: Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)
- Metaverse
- Culture & Creative Industries
- Business
- Sciences & Research
- Population
- Services
- Climate Change
- Public Governance
- Politics & Policies
- Private & Public Transport
- Freight & Logistics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Global Economy
- Leisure & Lifestyles
- Digital & Sharing Economies
- Cleantech & Circular Economy
- Data and Digitalisation
- Food
- Education & Knowledge
- Communication & Media
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Finance & Ownership
- Construction & Urbanisation
- Values & Ethics
- Sustainability & Recycling
- Security & Safety
- Management & HR
- Health & Wellbeing
- Future Disruptors
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Energy
- Raw Materials
- Retail & Buying Behavior
- Future Cities
- Global Megatrends
- Work & Income
- Future of Government
February 2023
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Collapse of World Economy (Wild Card)
- Telepresence and the Use of Avatars (Strengthening)
- Holograms (Strengthening)
- Platform Economy (Strengthening)
- Smartphone Era (Weakening)
- World's Megacities (Strengthening)
- AR Glasses and Lenses (old: AR Glasses) (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- AI Deep Learning & GPT-4 (Strengthening)
- Passenger Aviation (Strengthening)
- Chatbots and AI Language Processing Models (Strengthening)
- Rise of Global Oligarchs (Wild Card)
January 2023
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Car-Free City Centres (Strengthening)
- Circular Economy (Strengthening)
- Climate Change (old: Ecosystems amidst Climate Change) (Strengthening)
- Cloud Computing (Strengthening)
- Food Insecurity and Global Famine (old: Global Famine) (Strengthening)
- Protein Out of Air & Electricity (Strengthening)
- Universal Antiviral Medicine into Use (old: Blanket Medicine for Viruses) (Wild Card)
- Wearable Fitness Technology (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Medical Tourism (Strengthening)
- AI Deep Learning & GPT-4 (Strengthening)
- China's Aim to Become the World Leader in AI (old: China's Super AI) (Strengthening)
- Forest Towns and Rurbanisation (Replaced: Biodomes) (Strengthening)
- Life-Long Learning (Strengthening)
- Medical Tricorder and Spaser (old: Medical Tricorder from Space Trek) (Wild Card)
- Recycling Robots (Strengthening)
- Social Media Filter Bubbles and Misuses (old: AI Bubble) (Strengthening)
- Synthetic Fuels (Strengthening)
December 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Separate Monitors and Screens (Weakening)
- Automated Health Spaces (Wild Card)
- Biodegradable Electronics (Strengthening)
- Artificial Creativity (Strengthening)
- Artificial & Robot Co-Workers (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Use of Fossil Fuels (Weakening)
- Ambient Intelligence (Strengthening)
- Slowbalisation (Strengthening)
- Significance of Design Thinking (old: Significance of Design) (Strengthening)
- Construction Robots (old: Brick-Laying Robot) (Strengthening)
- Small Nuclear Power Plants (Strengthening)
November 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Solar Panel Roads (Wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Exercise Hidden in Daily Routines (Weak Signal)
- Aeroplane Wings Redesigned (Weak Signal)
- Cheap and Accurate DNA Tests (Strengthening)
- Electric Aeroplanes and Flying Cars (Strengthening)
- Electric Racing Cars (Strengthening)
- Surprise's Role in Disruptive Innovation (old: Facilitating Surprises) (Weak Signal)
- Fuel Switching (Strengthening)
- Manipulated Taste Experience (Strengthening)
- Warp Drive as Seen in Star Trek (Wild Card)
New Radars:
- Future of Government
October 2022
Other updated content:
- Future Without Work (Wild Card)
- Energy Blackmail (Strengthening)
- Flying Cars (Strengthening)
- From Products to Relationships (Strengthening)
- Geo-Economic Blocs (old: Geo-Economic Impact of Coronavirus) (Strengthening)
- New Economic Thinking (Strengthening)
September 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Right to Privacy (Weakening)
- Virtual Reality (Strengthening)
- Inflation Change (Strengthening)
- Collapse of Russia (Wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Modifiable Home Offices, Isolation Economy (Strengthening)
- Construction Material Out of Waste (Strengthening)
- Public-Private Partnerships (Strengthening)
August 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- AR Glasses (Strengthening)
- Artificial Meat (Strengthening)
- Beating Death Itself (Strengthening)
- BRICS Countries Domination (Wild Card)
- Climate Change and North American Economy (Strengthening)
- Collapse of World Economy (Wild Card)
- Farming without Pesticides (Strengthening)
- Global Retirement Systems (Wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Artificial Intelligence's Third Wave, Full AI (Strengthening)
- Energy Prosumerism & Community Microgrids (Strengthening)
- Zero-Emission Countries and Cities (Strengthening)
July 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Youth Bulge (Strengthening)
- Financial Technology (Strengthening)
- War in Europe (Strengthening)
- Graphene or Graphyne Revolution (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Wireless Charging for Electric Cars (Strengthening)
- No Publicity for Terrorists (Strengthening)
- Human Brain-AI Symbiosis (Wild Card)
- Health Monitoring Spaces (Strengthening)
- Quantum Levitation (Strengthening)
- Teleportation (Wild Card)
June 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Civil War in the US (Wild Card)
- End of Nation States (Wild Card)
- Fusion Power (Wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Fuel Out of Air (Wild Card)
- Lab-Grown Foods (Strengthening)
- On-Demand services (Strengthening)
- Pets and the Increased Money Spent on Them (Strengthening)
- Precision Care (Strengthening)
May 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Passenger Economy (Wild Card)
- Xenobots (Strengthening)
- Gold-Backed Currency (Wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Telepresence and the Use of Avatars (Strengthening)
- Neom – Saudi Arabia’s Future Megacity (Wild Card)
- Exterminating Migraine (old: Cause of Migraine in Blood Supply) (Weak Signal)
- Horizontal Lift (old: SkyPod Elevator) (Wild Card)
April 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Robot Couriers (Strengthening)
- Migration to Midsize Cities (old: Mid-Sized Cities Prosper) (Strengthening)
- Environmental and Pigouvian Taxes (Strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Wireless Power Transmission (Strengthening)
- Return of the Zeppelin (Strengthening)
- Liberal Democracy (Weakening)
- Frexit – France Leaving the EU (Wild Card)
March 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Disposable Clothes (old: Dirty Clothes) (weakening)
- Electric Cars (strengthening)
- Self-Maintaining Buildings (wild card)
- Greentech Bubble Burst (wild card)
Other updated content:
- War in Europe (strengthening)
- Runet & Split Internet (old: Runet – Russia’s Internal Internet) (wild card)
- Banking Revolution & Revolut Bank (old: Revolut Bank) (strengthening)
- Out of Batteries (wild card)
- Migrant and Refugee Crisis (strengthening)
- Global Famine (strengthening)
- Glass Battery with Increasing Capacity (weak signal)
- Collapse of Russia (wild card)
- Electric Road (wild card)
- Autocracies vs. Democracies (strengthening)
- Cryptocurrencies (strengthening)
- Federalisation of the EU (strengthening)
February 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- AI That Writes Itself, Coding Becomes Obsolete (wild card)
- Big Five Dominance (GAFAM) (strengthening)
- Collective Intelligence for Telepathic Co-Design (wild card)
- Collapse of the Dollar (wild card)
- Floating Food and Energy Production (strengthening)
- New Era in Logistics (strengthening)
- Quantum Internet (strengthening)
- Smart Homes (strengthening)
- Swarm Intelligence, Wisdom of Crowds 2.0 (wild card)
- Transparent Society (strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Holograms (strengthening)
- Food Scanners (strengthening)
- Desert Farming (old: Desert as Bread Basket) (wild card)
- Clean Water for All, Emerging Solutions (Old: Clean Water Solutions) (wild card)
January 2022
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Biofuels (weak signal)
- Internet of Things (IoT) (strengthening)
Other updated content:
- Insulin-Making Cells from Stem Cells (weak signal)
- Precision and Robotic Agriculture (old: Robotic Farming) (strengthening)
New radars published in January:
Region Radar: North & South Americas (US, Canada/LATAM)
Region Radar: China - Asia, Pacific, Australia (APAC)
Region Radar: Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)
December 2021
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Robot Chef (strengthening)
- Collapsing Housing Markets (wild card)
- Gig Economy (strengthening)
- Road Traffic as Software (strengthening)
- Road Deaths and Car Repairs (weakening)
- Citizen Entrepreneurship (strengthening)
- Blockchain Revolution (strengthening)
- Cryptocurrencies (strengthening)
- Dependency on Electric Grids and Data Networks (wild Card)
- From Stores to Showrooms (strengthening)
- Entertaining Shopping Centres (old: Separate Shopping Malls) (wild Card)
Other updated content:
- Eco-Socialism and Woke Becoming Mainstream (Old: Eco-Socialism Becomes Mainstream, older: Democratic Eco-Socialism Becomes Political Mainstream) (wild Card)
- Extremist Movements (strengthening)
- Programming in VR (wild Card)
- Climate Anxiety Leading to Mental Health Issues (strengthening)
New Radars that have been published in December
Metaverse: How Should Organisations Prepare?
November 2021
Updated content (including scenarios):
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Forestation (strengthening)
- Road Hackers (strengthening)
- Wood- and Recycled Cotton Based Textiles (old title: Wood-Based Textiles) (strengthening)
- Insect Drones (strengthening)
- Colonising Mars (wild card)
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Road Deaths and Car Repairs (weakening)
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Autocracies vs. Democracies (old title: International Competition) (strengthening)
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Concentration of Wealth (strengthening)
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Non-Fungible Tokens (strengthening)
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Need for Space & Walls - Warehouses, Offices, Retail (old title: walls) (weakening)
Other updated content:
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Brain-Computer Interface (old title: Brain-Computer Interface Neuralink) (weak signal)
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Carbon Farming (old title: Carbon Farming and Emission Trading) (strengthening)
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Programmers and Coders Out of Work (wild card)
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Brexit – UK Leaving the EU (strengthening)
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Narrowband IoT (strengthening)
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Offshoring (weakening)
October 2021
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Glocalisation (strengthening)
- Resource Wars (strengthening)
- Rising Sea Levels & Melting Antarctica (wild card)
- Social Mobility (weakening)
September 2021
Updated content (including scenarios):
- Globalisation (strengthening)
- New Democracy (strengthening)
- Eradication of Incurable, Widespread Diseases (old: Incurable, Widespread Diseases) (wild card)
- Noise Cancellation (strengthening)
- Asteroid Mining (wild card)
- Activism Terrorism (wild card)
- Home Robots (strengthening)
- Electronic Sports (strengthening)
- Dumps to Mines (strengthening)
- Africa’s Rise (strengthening)
- Rise of Global Oligarchs (wild card)
- Drone Revolution (strengthening)
- Drug Liberalisation (old: Decriminalising Drug Use) (strengthening)
- Health & Wellbeing (summary)
- Afghanistan's Natural Resources (old: Natural Resources of Afghanistan) (strengthening)
- Foreign Influence in Africa (old: Chinese Dominance in Africa) (strengthening)
- Quantum Computers & Post-Quantum Cryptography (old: Quantum Computers) (strengthening)
- Data & Digitalisation, Communication & Media (summary)
- Atmosphere Design (strengthening)
- AI Avatars in Participatory Democracy (old: Participatory Democracy) (wild card)
Other updated content:
- Slowbalisation (strengthening)
- Human Body Garage (strengthening)
- Internet of Everything (IoE) (strengthening)
- Smart Grids & AI in the Energy Sector (old: Smart Grids) (strengthening)
- Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) (strengthening)
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