Trends Identified
Human-organ printing
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Organavo (US), Envision TEC (Germany), RegenHU (Switzerland), Cellink (Sweden), Seraph Robotics (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Human+ Worker
Change the workplace or hinder the workforce Workforces are becoming human+: each individual is empowered by their skillsets and knowledge plus a new, constantly growing set of capabilities made possible through technology. Now, companies must adapt the technology strategies that successfully created this next generation workforce to support a new way of working in the postdigital age.
2019
Accenture Technology Vision 2019- The Post-Digital Era is Upon Us ARE YOU READY FOR WHAT’S NEXT?
Accenture
Humanoid sex robots
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Realbotix (US), True Companion (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Humans, meet AI
The machines have risen. And marketers have discovered they can be delightfully useful. The danger, of course, is following this trend, rather than understanding the far-reaching changes AI will bring to social marketing. Over 100 thousand Messenger bots are now active on Facebook (a 233 percent YOY growth over last year’s 33 thousand). But it’s still unclear whether customers will value these human-less engagements. While AI is still a future-facing trend, marketers can expect to start reaping the practical benefits in 2018. Facebook, for example, has released new predictive analytics to help marketers find insights faster. And visual search engines are using machine learning to help consumers search by images rather than keywords, a shift that will redefine the future of online product browsing.
2018
Social media trends 2018
Hootsuit
Hunger and food insecurity
The global demand for food is projected to increase by 50 percent by 2030 compared with the current needs in order to meet the increasing demand of the world’s growing population (Maggio, Van Criekinge and Malingreau 2015). The growing global population, along with accelerating urbanization and deteriorating natural resources, implies that there are more people to feed with less water, land and rural labour (FAO 2015). Finding a sustainable solution to providing more food to nearly 9 billion people by 2030 without harming the environment thus poses a great challenge for the 2030 Agenda and SDG 2 on ending hunger in particular.
2017
Global trends
UNDP
Hydrogen society
The Vision: a future in which millions of individual players can collect, produce and store locally generated renewable energy in homes, offices, factories, and vehicles, and share their power generation with each other across a Europe-wide intelligent hydrogen energy web.
2015
Preparing the Commission for future opportunities - Foresight network fiches 2030
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
Hyper-hybrid Cloud
Adoption moves from cloud to clouds, and hybrid emerges as a dominant model As cloud offerings added vertical business capability offerings to the horizontal IT capacity services, the adoption question changed from “if” to “when” – and the answer is frequently “now.” Along the way, leading organisations moved from cautious exploration to the reality of multiple individual cloud offerings handling critical pieces of their business operations – and sourced from multiple public and private providers. In each instance, these offerings needed to be connected back to the core of the business, often through traditional data-driven on-premise integration solutions. Advance one step further, and the organisation is managing both exception and routine workflow across a growing range of disparate cloud offerings with point-to-point links to legacy systems and data. This shift from “cloud” to “clouds” provides new opportunities, but it also brings challenges beyond just integration – security, data integrity and reliability, and business rules management for business processes that depend on enterprise IT assets composed with one or more cloud services. Welcome to the world of hyper-hybrid cloud.
2012
Tech Trends 2012-Elevate IT for digital business
Deloitte
Hyperconnectivity
Hyperconnectivity the emphasis on interconnectedness and collective behavior.Transparent lives: With the rise in ICT technologies, the proliferation of data has exploded leading to the rise of big data analytics and trend sensing. In today’s world, data is easy to search for, manipulate, and extract insights from. Integrated systems: In a more digital world, we are able to create beautiful “smart cities” which integrate ICT networks and leverage the Internet of Things to create a positive, interconnected, and hyperconnected world for its inhabitants. While hyperconnectivity such as this boasts many benefits, it can also lead to greater risks from the integration from physical and cyber infrastructures as hackers increasingly exploit our reliance on digital technologies. Conflict minerals: As our dependence on smartphones, computers, and technologies has grown, our consumption of the precious metals and minerals required to produce such products has also grown significantly. Smartphones each contain approximately 40 different minerals including tantalum, tungsten, tin, and gold – referred to as the 3TG. Hyper-sensitive markets: As the world becomes increasingly intertwined, significant political and economic structural changes in one region have huge impacts on major financial markets leading to increased volatility. The 2008 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States sent the entire globe into catastrophe as markets were shorted and a Great Recession emerged. Global regimes: From the Roman Empire to the British Empire to Attila the Hun, the story of global regimes is not new. However, today the rise of and reach of global forces is catapulted forward by the ubiquity of social media and ICT technologies which create the possibility of connecting beyond physical borders on ideological platforms.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Hyperloop
The Hyperloop is designed to be an alternative technology to air travel, creating super high – speed on -ground travel connections, powered by electricity, across major industrial or population centers. Here too, estimates are missing, but high capital lock – in and long construction phases suggest limited penetration by 2040, even under an optimistic scenario, although hyperloops may come to play a more prominent role in the long - term.
2018
The bigger picture- The impact of automation, AI, shared economy on oil demand
The 2° Investing Initiative