Trends Identified
Climate Change
As climate change continues, natural disasters and abnormal weather patterns will increasingly have effects on our socioeconomics, demographics, crop production, food security, migration, and political landscape in unprecedented ways.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Cleantech becomes a competitive advantage
Governments and organizations are announcing plans to shrink their carbon footprints. The move to cleantech may represent a second industrial revolution that will have effects as great as the first.
2011
Tracking global trends - How six key developments are shaping the business world
EY
Clean tech
Clean tech, which primarily consists of renewable energy sources such as sun and wind energy, supported by devices for energy storage.
2019
Tech for good
McKinsey
Clean power
Known technical solution areas which require innovation to realise their potential and enable scale of deployment: Cheap renewables generation, advanced energy storage, Clean fossil fuels, Next-generation grid management, Carbon capture, sequestration and use, Energy efficiency, Renewable heat, Next-generation nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion.
2017
Innovation for the Earth - Harnessing technological breakthroughs for people and the planet
PWC
Clean Coal Technology
Coal is classified as high-rank coals (anthracite, flame coal) or low-rank coals (sub-bituminous coal, lignite). Use of low-rank coals is limited due to high levels of moisture content and spontaneous ignition. The technology uses low-rank coals to produce low-carbon clean energy.
2009
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2009
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
City Limits
The world’s political geography is being transformed by surging migration from rural to urban areas, straining the web of connections between the two. Divergences are widening on numerous dimensions, such as values, age, education, power and prosperity. What if a tipping point is reached at which the urban-rural divide becomes so sharp that the unity of states begins to erode? Domestically, divergent values between urban and rural areas are already fuelling polarization and electoral volatility in many countries. Greater bitterness and rivalry could lead to localized nativism and even violent clashes. Separatist movements might break through in wealthy city-regions that resent diverting revenues to poorer rural areas with which they feel diminishing affinity. Leading cities might look to bypass national structures and play an international role directly. Economically, accelerating urban migration could lead to rural depopulation and the decline of local economies, with potential food security implications in some countries. Better long-term planning—for both expanding cities and rural areas at risk of decline—might help to mitigate these dangers. Stronger transport and communications links could help to soften the urban-rural divide. Resources will be needed, which might require more fiscal creativity, such as finding ways to decentralize revenue-raising powers or more widely redistribute the productivity gains that urbanization generates.
2019
The Global Risks Report 2019 14th Edition
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Citizen AI - Raising AI to Benefit Business and Society
As artificial intelligence grows in its capabilities—and its impact on people’s lives—businesses must move to “raise” their AIs to act as responsible, productive members of society.
2018
Accenture Technology vision 2018
Accenture
Cities of Flows and the Spectre of the Sustainable City
It is vitally important to recognise that planetary urbanisation is one of the main drivers of the ecological predicament the world is in. Indeed, the ‘sustainability’ of contemporary urban life – understood as the expanded reproduction of its socio-physical form and functioning – accounts for 80% of the world’s resource use, of global ecological degradation, and of the world’s waste. What I wish to foreground in this contribution is that these urban roots that structure global socio- ecological flows and the feeble techno-managerial attempts to produce more ‘sustainable’ forms of urban living actually are customarily ignored by both researchers and policy-makers, while it is precisely these socio-metabolic flows that continue to sharpen the combined and uneven socio-ecological patterning that marks contemporary urbanisation dynamics.
2016
Shaping the future
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
Cities and Regions of Tomorrow: Drivers of a Better Future?
Cities are catalysts for policy change and the 21st century will be shaped by metropolitan values: diversity, creativity, industriousness, entrepreneurialism.
2016
Shaping the future
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
CIOs as Revolutionaries
CIOs shift from stewards of, to catalysts for, business revolution For years, technology advocates have called for CIOs to take a seat at the executive table. But the subtext has typically been as a steward of the business. This played well in the paradigm of IT as a support function and cost center, working downstream from the business strategy. This model also made sense for technology investments focused on automating core business processes. CIOs helped usher in waves of technology advancements, using ERP, client-server and the internet to drive efficiencies. It was about automating what the business needed to do – doing what the business had normally done, but doing it better, faster and cheaper.
2011
Tech Trends 2011 The natural convergence of business and IT
Deloitte