7. Thinking About The Future(s)
• Open
• Makeable
• Multiple
•
•
•
•
•
•
S.T.E.E.P.
Social
Technological
Economic
Ecological
Political
7
8. Check for “Paradigm Blindness”
"Any useful statement about the futures should appear
to be ridiculous.”
- Jim Dator
9. “What, sir? You would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire
under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte upon hearing of Robert Fulton’s plans for a steam-powered
engine.
10. “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of
messenger boys.”
Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.
11. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.
(DEC), maker of mainframe computers in 1977.
13. A Futures Sampler
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Silver Tsunami (Asia gets old)
Extreme Longevity
Global Middle Class
Enoughness in the Advanced Economies
Automation (robots and algorithms)
Collaborative Consumption
Do It Ourselves
Prosumers
Rateocracy and Radical Transparency
Strategic materials and InGREEDients
Water Scarcity (especially in China)
Storied vs. Unstoried Products
17. China: Getting Old Before It Gets Rich
“In 2012 for the First Time We
Saw a Drop in the Population of
People of Working Age”
- Ma Jiantang, Nbs Director
18.
19.
20. Big Changes on the Horizon
“Studies estimate that robots could replace as
much as 25% to 50% of the current, low-end labor
force in the agricultural, industrial and service
sectors of the U.S. economy.”
- James H . Irvine
and Sandra Schwarzbach,
US Naval Air Warfare Center
http://www.wfs.org/reports/UrgentWarningsReport2ndEd.pdf
21. …and a different society.
http://www.wfs.org/reports/UrgentWarningsReport2ndEd.pdf
22. The 10 Ds of 21st Century Disruption
(The things that are likely to kill off your company.)
25. Future Trends
Socially Driven Scenarios
Technology Driven Scenarios
Economically Drive Scenarios
The Incredible Shrinking Survey
Geo-Timed Feedback
Dispersive Convergence
Do Not Disturb
Rapid In-Market Experimentation
Lilliput
Back to the Future
Iterative Insight Streaming
E-Agency
What was privacy?
Portal Power
Global Depth
Power to the People
Let’s Play a Game
Need for Speed
From Value to Values
Limbic
Space Invaders
Tribal Rituals
Nano-Targeting
Anticipation
Epidemiology
When it comes to greying demographics, every nation is playing follow the leader.And the leader in a greying society is Japan.In 2012 it was the only country with more than 30% over the age of 60.But, by 2050 64 countries will have passed this milestone.Some will pass this milestone with planning and resources. Others will not.
Because the entire world is aging.Some continents are aging more than others – Europe is the extreme case. We see this now.But look at Asia and Latin America. Both are set to age at approximately the same rate between now and 2050. By the time we reach 2050, Asia will more than double its population over 60.But, many nations within Asia will age more rapidly.