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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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New perspectives on the future are gained from multiple expert discussions around the world. Our ten year foresights offer rich, insightful views on some of the most important changes shifts – and challenges - that lie ahead.
Unable to shake key issues like inequality, capitalist societies face cries for change, structural challenges and technology enabled freedoms. Together these re-write the rules and propose a more participative, collaborative landscape of all working together. Capitalism is under siege from the likes of a sharing economy, a connected world, a slowdown in the take up of democracy, and intractable problems such as inequality and climate change. Many believe capitalism contributed to the global crisis, while providing no solution, and desire to see a fairer system take its place. It is inequality that is at the heart of this backlash. President…
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The desire to ‘age-in-place’ meets a healthcare reform agenda that promotes decentralization. A new care model is customer-centric, caregiver-focused and enhances coordination across care settings. Most people, when given the choice, would elect to stay in their homes and in their communities rather than move into residential senior care – a 2015 survey by AARP in the US put the numbers of people wanting to ‘age-in-place’ at over 90%. However until recently the services, enabling technologies and business models didn’t support this individual desire, especially as people start to get sick. And people do get sick: according to the World…
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Although significant progress has been made positive change has limited reach. Millions of people continue to be left behind from mainstream progress – especially the young, the poor and those who are disadvantaged. Progress has always been a pretty bumpy journey; the next ten years looks as if little will be done to improve the ride. Although for some, access to better medicine, education and employment will be transformational; for others, life will just get worse. It may also feel worse as the chasm between the haves and the have-nots is widening, and some expect that it will become progressively difficult…
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As privacy is a public issue, more international frameworks seek to govern the Internet, protect the vulnerable and secure personal data: The balance between protection, security, privacy and public good is increasingly political. In 2016 the privacy conversation is still rather low key, a debate taking place in a closed community comprised primarily of academics, lawyers, regulators and security executives. This won’t last. The privacy issue will transition from being considered a dry legal matter to one that is more widely understood and debated both commercially and by consumers. The new opportunities presented by big data, balanced with the increasing…
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Successful cities will be designed around the needs and desires of increasingly empowered and enabled citizens – who are expecting personalized services from the organisations that serve them. If we are going to live in cities, then we will certainly expect them to suit our needs and desires. Cities, it seems, have always have been products, with citizens as the customers, but now the marketplace for cities is on the move. And in a big way. The UN predicts 8.5 billion people globally by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and more than 11 billion in 2100 and that by 2100,…
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As trust in ‘business’ declines, structures and practices of large corporations are under scrutiny. Businesses come under greater pressure to improve performance on environmental, social and governance issues. Today, particularly in Anglo-American markets, many see that it is the responsibility of the management of ‘the company’ to protect the interests of its shareholders. However, with little or no distinction between short or long-term interest, the tendency has been towards maximizing immediate profits at the expense of society and the environment, rather than creating long-term value. Publicly listed companies are under tremendous pressure from some investors, activist shareholders, takeover threats and…
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The creative economy helps to build inclusive and sustainable cultures. What’s more, it generates wealth. To build scale it requires a workforce comfortable with collaboration, critical thinking and the ability to take a risk. Publishing, film, television, music production, broadcasting, architecture, advertising, visual and performing arts are all part of the creative economy. Together many now see these industries not only as a vital part of the new knowledge economy but also as capable of revitalising depressed areas and building cultural heritage. While many other sectors are suffering, creative individuals are blending culture and technology to generate jobs and build organisations…
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New trusted currencies of exchange and meaning emerge to better facilitate transactions, trade, authentication and validation. Money is complemented by new systems to which we attach greater significance. In the past things were relatively more straightforward. People were known in a local community. If they moved to a new location, state issued papers or passports would verify their identity. The provenance of goods or an object was known and if it was falsified, the identification of the perpetrator was simple. Truth and trust was easy. Globalisation and digitization has changed this. People move and interact with each other more. Supply…
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Individuals recognize the value of their digital shadows, privacy agents curate clients’ data sets while personal data stores give us transparent control of our information: We retain more ownership of our data and opt to share it. As public understanding of the value of our digital shadow grows, so does our appetite to retain ownership of it. Individuals, increasingly aware of security issues and the dubious behaviour of some organisations, decide how, when and with whom to share their personal data. Personal data stores provide more transparent control, while privacy agents and data brokers help curate our data sets. Many…
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National governments’ ability to lead change comes under greater pressure from both above and below – multinational organisations increasingly set the rules while citizens trust and support local and network based actions. Government and governance itself is in a state of flux. The 20th century move towards greater democracy seems to have halted at the same time as multinational global and regional bodies are setting, or seeking to set, more of the rules of significance. The majority of governments are feeling less influential on the global scale and so are seeking to collaborate more – whether as part of trade…
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People are having to work for to support longer retirements. Flexible working practices and policies are emerging, but some employers continue to remain ambivalent about older workers. People are staying in the workforce longer. In Europe, 50% of 55-64 year-olds continue to work, compared to just 37% a decade earlier. While in the US, the number of people who say they retired after the age of 65 rose from 8% in 1991 to 14% in 2015. Underlying this of course is longer life expectancy. Older people are healthier – the average 65-year-old today is as healthy as a 58-year-old was…
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As organisations try to retain as much information about their customers as possible, data becomes a currency with a value and a price. It therefore requires a marketplace where anything that is information is represented. It has never been easier for organisations to gather and store information. Companies know more about their customers, governments can have a closer relationship to their citizens and individuals can store and access all sorts of information that was previously too cumbersome to analyse. Data is now the new raw material of business, an economic input almost on a par with capital and labour. It…
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