supplementary materials

1. Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking
in the 21st Century Culture
Megatrends Currently
Observed Globally

2. A Megatrend is a long-term change
that affects governments, societies
and economies permanently over a
long period of time. Megatrends drive
other trends in financial markets in
terms of sales, growth and
innovation.

3. SHIFTS IN HUMAN DENSITY
AND MOVEMENTS
DEVELOPMENT IN
SOCIOCULTURAL
LANDSCAPE
CHANGES IN
ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Megatrends Currently
Observed Globally
CHANGES IN POLITICAL
STRUCTURES AND THE RISE
OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
CHANGES IN THE
EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT
ADVANCEMENTS IN
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY

4. This refers to changes in population
size, migration, ethnic and racial
compositions of socities, birth rates,
mortality, and morbidity rates even
geographic distribution of groups.
Shifts in human density and
movements

5. This reflects changes in the manner of
exchanging goods, services, and capital
outflow between developing and
developed countries.
Changes in economic
system

6. This refers to the shifts in the power
arrangements among nations and religions.
examples are changes in the forms of
government and new strategies of
revolutionary movements such as openness
to option for negotiated peace settlements
instead of waging prolonged guerilla wars.
Changes in Political Structures
and the Rise of Social Movements

7. It involves research and development in
various fields of natural and physical
sciences, as well as new inventions. It
heralds a new future that is more reliant to
these advances.
Advancements in science and
technology

8. This are changes in the value system or
the emergence of new values and social
practices leading towards reorientation of
the present moral compass.
Development in sociocultural
landscape

9. This covers the environmental pressure
cause by development, including fuel
emissions, loss of forest and the increasing
impact of climate change manifested by
the warning of increased temperatures of
oceans and atmosphere and the rising sea
level.
changes in the earth's
environment

10. Megatrend and its
Sub-Trend

11. are the characteristics of people that
change over time.
Population Growth
Increase demands and effects on land and
government resources
Rising healthcare expenditures
Its Megatrend:
1.
2. Aging Population
Its Trend:
1.
2.
Demographic Shifts

12. are the characteristics of people that
change over time.
Population Growth
Increase demands and effects on land and
government resources
Rising healthcare expenditures
Its Megatrend:
1.
2. Aging Population
Its Trend:
1.
2.
Demographic Shifts