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Major Foresight Radar Updates - March 2024

Explore recently updated foresight radars now on the platform.

Our team of futurists has updated the majority of our pre-filled radars. Please find below an overview of the changes made to each of the radars. To open an updated radar, log in to the platform and re-open the radar from the Radars-page "Create a new radar" -button.

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UPDATED RADARS:

1. Future of Geopolitics

2. Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine

3. Phenomena with Scenarios

4. Region Radar: North & South Americas (US, Canada/LATAM)

5. Region Radar: Asia-Pacific, Australia & China (APAC)

6. Region Radar: Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)

7. Metaverse

8. Culture & Creative Industries

9. Business

10. Sciences & Research

11. Population

12. Services

13. Climate Change

14. Public Governance

15. Politics & Policies

16. Private & Public Transport

17. Freight & Logistics

18. Artificial Intelligence

19. Global Economy

20. Leisure & Lifestyles

21. Digital & Sharing Economies

22. Cleantech & Circular Economy

23. Data & Digitalisation

24. Food

25. Education & Knowledge

26. Communication & Media

27. Tourism & Hospitality

28. Finance & Ownership

29. Construction & Urbanisation

30. Values & Ethics

31. Sustainability & Recycling

32. Security & Safety

33. Management & HR

34. Health & Wellbeing

35. Future Disruptors

36. Industry & Manufacturing

37. Energy

38. Raw Materials

39. Retail & Buying Behavior

40. Future Cities

41. Global Megatrends

42. Work & Income

43. Future of Government

 

LIST OF UPDATED RADARS:

Future of Geopolitics

Added:

  • Arab-Israeli Normalisation of Relations
  • Regime Change in Iran
  • Regime Change in Russia
  • End of Global Sporting Events
  • Venezuela-Colombia War
  • AI Chips
  • BATHX
  • Collapse of Developing Countries

Removed:

  • Breakup of UK
  • European Separatists
  • Ageing Population 

    Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine

    Added:

    • Friendshoring
    • End of Global Sporting Events
    • Critical Infrastructure Attacks
    • Counter Drone Systems

    Removed:

    • Passenger Aviation
    • China Claims Land from Russia
    • Food Prices

    Phenomena with Scenarios

    Added:

    • Working at the Office 
    • Virtual Worlds of Adult Entertainment 
    • Great Power Competition in Space 
    • Civil War in the US 

    Removed:

    • Migrant and Refugee Crisis (no longer has scenarios)

    Region Radar: North and South Americas (US, Canada/LATAM)

    Added:

    • Renewable Energy Exporters 
    • Drug Cartels
    • Collapse of Developing Countries

    Region Radar: Asia-Pacific, Australia & China

    Added:

    • China and Russia Joining Forces 
    • BATHX 
    • Uighur Camps in China 
    • Autocracies vs. Democracies 
    • Rejection of Societal Expectations in East Asia 
    • Collapse of Developing Countries 
    • AI Chips 

    Removed:

    • Arms Trade
    • China Claims Land from Russia 
    • Single Households 
    • Liberal Democracy
    • Deadly Pandemics

    Region Radar: Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)

    Added:

    • Regime Change in Iran (2026-2040)
    • BRICS Countries Domination (2030-2040)
    • Collapse of Developing Countries (2024-2029, once published)
    • Regime Change in Russia (2022-2024)
    • Critical Infrastructure Attacks (2022-2024)
    • Microchip Investments in the US & EU (2023-2025)

    Removed:

    • National Security of Supply 
    • Brexit 
    • Drug Smuggling 
    • Runet & Split Internet 
    • North European Currency 
    • Rise of Global Oligarchs 

    Metaverse

    Added:

    • Experience and Entertainment Economy
    • World Epoch Change
    • Virtual Worlds of Adult Entertainment 
    • Working at the Office 
    • Atmosphere Design & Future of Physical Stores 
    • Experiences through Gamification 
    • Written Language and Google Search 

    Removed:

    • Disinformation

    Culture & Creative Industries

    Added:

    • New Athletic Sports Classes 
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Identity 
    • AI-Generated Content Fills the Internet 
    • AI Hit Prediction
    • Virtual Reality
    • Immersive Global Virtual Worlds
    • Virtual Worlds of Adult Entertainment

    Removed:

    • Tightening Ethical Criteria
    • Scalable Learning
    • Placebo Effect to Use

    Business

    Added:

    • Robot Tax
    • Sustainability Reporting 
    • Experience Economy 
    • Super-Apps 

    Removed:

    • Return of Heavy Industry
    • Social Impact Bonds
    • Hybridisation of Society
    • Price Discrimination

     Sciences & Research

    Added:

    • Smart Dust 
    • Microchip Investments in the US and EU 
    • Carbon Dioxide Removal 
    • Biomining for Recyclying Metal Elements and Space Exploration
    • Stem Cell Therapy 
    • Artificial DNA to Kill Cancer 

    Removed:

    • Thermoelectric Generator 
    • Piezoelectricity 
    • Wireless Power Transmission 
    • 3D Printing Metal 
    • Biodegradable Electronics 
    • Spaser Kills Cancer Cells 
    • Protein Out of Air 
    • Algae Power 

    Population

    Added:

    • Food Insecurity 
    • Rejection of Societal Expectations in East Asia 
    • New Athletic Sports Classes 
    • Social Trust 
    • Addictive Algorithms 
    • Global Workforce Competition
    • Airport City
    • Young and Dynamic US
    • Co-Parenting and Changing Family Structures
    • Artificial Human Sex Cells
    • Y Chromosome is Vanishing

    Removed:

    • Resource Wars 
    • Migration to Midsize Cities 
    • Ways to Use Free Time 
    • Self- and Co-Direction 
    • All-Inclusive Lifestyle Packages & Leased Standard of Living

    Services

    Added:

    • Changing Role of Medical Doctors 
    • Super-Apps 
    • Multi-Use Libraries 
    • AI Deep Learning and Advanced GPT

    Removed:

    • Hybridisation of Society
    • Games Designed and Operated by AI
    • Vegetarian Areas
    • All-Inclusive Lifestyle Packages
    • Owning Items
    • Business Ecosystem Customership
    • Increasing Health Requirements
    • Tightening Ethical Criteria

    Climate Change

    Added:

    • Carbon Dioxide Removal
    • Ocean Turbines 
    • Carbon Labelling for Food
    • EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities

      Removed:

      • New Era in Logistics
      • Formic Acid Fuel
      • Extremist Movements

      Public Governance

      Added:

      • Critical Infrastructure Attacks 
      • BATHX 
      • Robot Tax 
      • Social Trust

      Removed:

      • Cyberwarfare 
      • Hybridisation of Society
      • Citizen Entrepreneurship

      Politics & Policies

      Added:

      • AI Chips 
      • Political Hobbyism 
      • Religious Fundamentalism 
      • Regime Change in Iran 

      Removed:

      • Alienated Young Men
      • European Separatists

      Private & Public Transport

      Added:

      • Structural Batteries 

      Removed:

      • Domestic Tourism
      • Swappable Batteries

      Freight & Logistics

      Added:

      • Wind-Powered Cargo Ships

      Artificial Intelligence

      Added:

      • AI-Generated Fills the Internet 
      • AI Priests and Automated Religious Practices
      • AI Chips
      • Robot Tax
      • Deepfake Voices and Videos
      • Apocalyptic AI
      • Chatbots

      Removed:

      • Keys
      • Need for Data Scientists
      • Spinnaker Supercomputer

      Global Economy

      Added:

      • Friendshoring
      • BATHX 
      • AI Chips 
      • World Epoch Change
      • Semiconductor & Microchip Investments in the US
      • Greentech Competition USA vs China
      • Great power competition in space
      • New Central Bank Instruments
      • Deregulating Pension Asset Investments

      Removed:

      • African Single Market
      • Citizen Entrepreneurship

      Leisure & Lifestyles

      Added:

      • Virtual Worlds of Adult Entertainment 
      • Woke and Cancel Culture 
      • Symbolic and Neo-Esoteric Era 
      • New Athletic Sports Classes 
      • Addictive Algorithms 

      Removed:

      • Airport City
      • Luxury Camping 
      • DIY Culture 
      • Way to Use Free Time
      • Slow Life 

      Digital & Sharing Economies

      Added:

      • Fragmented Degrees 
      • Robot Tax
      • Addictive Algorithms
      • AI-Generated Content Fills the Internet

      Removed:

      • Exponential Times

      Cleantech & Circular Economy

      Added:

      • Circular Economy Reduces GDP
      • Paper-Thin Solar Cells
      • Carbon Dioxide Removal
      • Turning Coal Waste into Carbon Fibre
      • Biomining

      Removed:

      • Energy Blackmail 
      • Hyperloop
      • Artificial Meat
      • Cyborg Plants

      Data & Digitalisation

      Added:

      • Smart Environment
      • Small Satellites and Rockets (2026-2029

      • Smart Dust
      • Super-apps (Weak Signal)
      • Digitalisation of Legal Work
      • Data Consumption & Digital Emissions
      • Invisible Online Surveillance
      • AI-Generated Content Fills the Internet
      • Cyber Weapons & Deterrence
      • Written Language and Google Search
      • Open Loops and Cross-Border Payment
      • Superfast Insurance Apps
      • Crime Webstore, Crime-as-a-Service
      • Data-Driven Customer Experiences
      • Platform Economy
      • Cyber & Hybrid Politics
      • Synthetic Data
      • Smart City Attack

      Removed:

      • Smart Environment
      • Ransomware
      • Free Speech on the internet
      • Quantified Self

      Food

      Added:

      • Community Gardens
      • Nuclear War
      • Counterfeit Products & Brand Forgery
      • Invisible Fibre
      • Synecoculture & Agrivoltaic Farms

      • Underwater Agriculture
      • Food Social Security
      • Food Forests
      • Next Generation of Space Food 
      • Carbon Labelling for Food

      Removed:

      • Growing Rice in Salt Water
      • Insect Drones
      • Vertical Farming
      • Bioterrorism
      • Climate Refugees and Migration
      • Smart Countryside
      • Electric Heavy Machinery & Equipment
      • CRISPR

      Education & Knowledge

      Added:

      • Woke and Cancel Culture
      • Telepathy & Morphic Fields
      • Virtual Worlds of Adult Entertainment
      • Smart Dust
      • AI-Generated Content Fills the Internet

      Removed:

      • Artificial & Robot Co-Workers
      • AI Machine learning
      • 6G Network
      • Internet of Everything
      • Multidisciplinary Artists
      • Industry 4.0

      Communication & Media

      Added:

      • Woke and Cancel Culture
      • Telepathy & Morphic Fields
      • Virtual Worlds of Adult Entertainment
      • Smart Dust
      • AI-Generated Content Fills the Internet

      Removed:

      • Importance of Significance
      • Lighter Regulation
      • Privacy Invasion 24/7
      • AI Robotics

      Tourism & Hospitality

      Added:

      • Immersive Global Virtual Worlds Like the Metaverse
      • Construction of Spaceports
      • Permanently Living at Sea 
      • Sustainability Reporting

      Removed:

      • New Payment Methods
      • Robot Chef
      • Automated Supermarket
      • Extremist Movements
      • Autocracies vs. Democracies
      • Artificial & Robot Co-Workers
      • Concentration of Wealth
      • Non-Chemical Drug Prescriptions
      • Adapted Ethnicity

          Finance & Ownership

          Added:

          •  EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities 

          Construction & Urbanisation

          Added:

          • Construction of Spaceports
          • Underground Delivery Network - Vacuum Pipes for Goods, Food and Waste
          • Modifiable Home Offices, Isolation Economy

          Removed:

          • Tightening Ethical Criteria
          •  Drone Revolution 

          Values & Ethics

          Added:

          • Religious Fundamentalism
          • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Identity
          • Symbolic and Neo-Esoteric Era
          • Political Hobbyism

          • Social Trust

          • Rejection of societal expectations across East Asia

          Removed:

          • Importance of Religion in Arab Countries
          • Zero-Emission Countries and Cities
          • Environmental and Pigouvian Taxes
          • Vegetarian Proteins
          • Wood- and Recycled Cotton-Based Textiles
          • Hyperlocalisation

          Sustainability & Recycling

          Added:

          • EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities
          • Circular Economy Reduces GDP 
          • Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
          • Synecoculture & Agrivoltaic Farms
          • Affordable Housing
          • Food Social Security 
          • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Identity

          Removed:

          • Concentration of Wealth
          • Industry Disruptors
          • Offshoring 
          • City-States
          • Rare-Earth Elements 
          • Solar Power
          • Leadership Crisis
          • Price Discrimination

          Security & Safety


          Management & HR

          Added:

          • Sustainability Reporting
          • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Identity

          Removed:

          • Autocracies & Democracies
          • AI in Healthcare

          Health & Wellbeing

          Added:

          • Changing Role of Medical Doctors
          • Artificial DNA to Kill Cancer 
          • Stem Cell Therapy
          • Memory Prosthesis 

          Removed:

          • Voice & Gesture Control
          • Sustainable Fitness
          • Valuing Free Time  

          Future Disruptors

          Added:

          • New Athletic Sports Classes
          • Taiwan Issue
          • Completely Corrupted Internet

          Removed:

          • Social Ranking Systems
          • At Least One Million New Data Scientists Needed
          • Quantified Self 
          • Collapse of General Knowledge

          Industry & Manufacturing

          Added:

          • Metamaterials
          • 4D Printing and Shape-Shifting Materials
          • Electronic Skin & Nanomesh
          • Semiconductor & Microchip Investments in the US and EU
          • Counterfeit Products & Brand Forgery 
          • AI Chips 
          • Turning Coal Waste into Carbon Fibre
          • Invisibility Cloak and Stealth Technology
          • Surface Media

          Removed:

          • Formic Acid Fuel 
          • Phosphorus Sufficiency 
          • Solar Power
          • From Products to Relationships
          • Fossil Fuels
          • Human Body Garage
          • AI Robotics

          Energy

          Added:

          • Paper-Thin Solar Cells from Electronic Inks Printed on Composite Fabric 
          • Wave Energy Converters
          • Green shipping corridors
          • Wireless Energy Transmitting Webs

          Removed:

          • Gold Hydrogen
          • Electric Semi-Trucks
          • Light from Graphene

          Raw Materials

          Added:

          • Biomining
          • Alternatives to Silicon in Microelectronics
          • Turning Coal Waste into Carbon Fiber
          • Biomimicry
          • Semiconductor & Microchip Investments in the US & EU
          • Friendshoring

          Removed:

          • Aerial Reforestation 
          • Algorithmic Biology 

          Retail & Buying Behavior

          Added:

          • Counterfeit Products & Brand Forgery
          • Flash Robs

          Removed:

          • Personalised Pricing 
          • Artificial Alcohol
          • Food Scanners 
          • Automated Supermarket
          • Augmented Reality
          • Virtual Travelling
          • Omnicannel shopping
          • Online Stores

          Future Cities

          Added:

          • Food Forests in Cities to Mimic Natural Ecosystems 
          • Permanently Living at Sea
          • Construction of Spaceports
          • Underground Delivery Network - Vacuum Pipes for Goods, Food and Waste

          Removed:

          • Vertical Farming
          • Hyperloop
          • Community Garden
          • Wellbeing Centres 

          Global Megatrends

          Added:

          • Semiconductor & Microchip Investments in the US & EU

          Removed:

          • Perpetual Bonds
          • Smart and Connected Countryside
          • Molecular Machines
          • DNA Data Storage

          Work & Income

          Added:

          • Escape from Reality
          • Political Hobbyism
          • Working at the Office
          • Monetisation of Hobbies 
          • Robot Tax

          Removed:

          • Robotics in Healthcare 
          • All other phenomena except for "Employment Disruption" and "Return of Heavy Industry" are removed from "Industry & Manufacturing"-sector.

          Future of Government

          Added:

          • Circular Economy Reduces GDP
          • The US Big Tech Dominance (GAMMA)
          • Counterfeit Products & Brand Forgery 
          • Semiconductor & Microchip Investments in the US and EU
          • Great Power Competition in Space and Space Economy
          • Global Workforce Competition
          • National Security of Supply
          • Digital Tax System
          • Cryptocurrencies
          • Social Trust
          • Deepfake Voices, Videos & Adult Entertainment

          Removed:

          • Non-Fungible Tokens 
          • Real-time data
          • 6G
          • Identity Thefts
          • Social Robots
          •  AI in Healthcare
          • Smart Cities
          • Blockchain
          • Cybersecurity
          • Trust in Public Authorities
          • Multi-Use Libraries & Hybrid Public Places 

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