Trends Identified
Computational Biomedicine
“You hear we’re looking for a cure to cancer, but there will never be a single medicine to cure cancer,” Pande says. “But we already have many drugs for cancer. The problem is people get them too late. You don’t wait until your house is half burned down before you call the fire department.” The answer is technologies that can detect cancer much earlier than ever–at high accuracy and low cost–in a reproducible way. “My vision for cancer is it becomes very boring and routine, like going to the dentist,” Pande says.
2018
The Most Important Tech Trends Of 2018, According To Top VCs
Fast Company
Computerized shoes & clothing
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Google/Alphabet (US), Samsung (Korea), Hexoskin (Canada) Owlet (US), Komodo Tech (Canada), Shiftwear (US), Lechal (India), OM Signal (Canada).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Computers embedded in clothing or other wearable items
2006
Global Technology Revolution 2020
RAND Corporation
Computers have eyes
As well as comprehending our words, computers now understand images without any help from us. This brings huge opportunities for next generation digital services.
2018
Fjord trends 2018
Fjord
Computing fore-cast: Into the clouds
Long foreshadowed under names like “grid computing” and “network computing,” cloud computing is finally gaining momentum. Rather than simply replacing one computing paradigm with another, the era of the cloud looks to create a somewhat chaotic proliferation of options, with many paradigms coexisting. Any layer of the technology stack—from computing power to storage to services—can be sourced from the “cloud” and, because IT needs are diverse, every cloud layer should be able to find a market. Organizations will be free to evolve individual IT models, based strictly on business needs rather than on technology constraints; hybrid, “partly cloudy” models will be the norm. This new, adaptable IT frame - work may make it much easier to manage 4 issues of cost, scale and agility. But decision makers must also be prepared to navigate a new set of tradeoffs: the price of agility may be the loss of some visibility—or some control. Most enterprises will want to take their bearings carefully before heading off into the cloud.
2010
Accenture technology vision
Accenture
Concentrated Solar power
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Solarreserve (US), Abengoa (Spain), North China Power Engineering (China), Shanghai Electric (China), Zhejiang Supcon Solar (China), NWEPDI (China).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Concentration of Wealth
As global wealth inequities grow, the divide between the rich and the poor gets greater, coupled with stagnating middle class incomes and the rise of the luxury consumer.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Confidence disrupted
The year 2012 unfolds with wide disparities in potential outcomes in many economies, and little prospect of a coordinated turnaround. Just 15% of CEOs believe that the global economy will improve this year (see Figure 2). Incremental improvements in business optimism seen in the PwC 15th Annual Global CEO Survey over the past two years are reversing. In a sign of converging economic fortunes, confidence declined in parallel among CEOs across all regions, except for the Middle East and Africa.
2012
15th Annual global CEO Survey
PWC
Conflict Risk at Highest Level since Cold War
The Ukraine crisis shows that economic interests can be sacrificed for political ambitions. Major state-on state conflict is no longer unthinkable. Virtually any part of post-Soviet space and Asia-Pacific could become areas of serious big-power competition.
2016
Global risks 2035- the search for a new normal
Atlantic Council
Conflict: prolonged, simmering, and increasingly urban.
The first point to make about future trends in conflict is that it is likely that many of today’s simmering conflicts will continue to do so in the coming decades. Most conflict in the future is likely to be protracted, to be fought by armed groups for personal gain, and to be to be fought in cities. The lines are becoming more blurred between gangs, warlords, insurgents, child soldiers, paramilitary forces, and drug traffickers, all of whom will increasingly operate in urban environments. Finally, there is terrorism. As high-tech weapons become smaller, cheaper, and more widely available, they will be used by an even wider variety of groups than they are now.
2011
Megatrends and the future of humanitarian action
International Review of the Red Cross