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Are you ready for anything? The Schumacher Institute – a think & do tank
- 1. Are you ready for anything?
- 3. The Schumacher Institute – a think & do tank
- 5. So far:
- 6. To come:
- 7. The Monitoring Unit • Indicators • Business Resilience Circles • Scenario games • Alternate reality games Workshops Prepare for Change service Resilience Action Group • Look Out • Special reports • Workshop reports • News • Network • Community engagement
- 21. 1950 2000 2050 2100 Niger Pop(millions) 3 11 53 99 GDP($bncurrent2013) 2 74 2,958 GDPpercapita 187 1,394 30,000 Japan Pop(millions) 84 127 110 90 GDP($bncurrent2013) 4,731 4,500 3,500 GDPpercapita 37,252 41,021 38,976 World Population to 2300 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- 22. Courtesy: Stockholm Resilience Centre
- 26. Dominant worldviews Health and well-being Food and agriculture Markets and trade Energy and raw materials Climate change impact Planetary limits Water dependency Habitat and infrastructure Wealth and power Governance and law Community systems
- 28. A selection of early / weak signals Land loss in southeast Asia from subsidence of peatlands Response of financial markets to unburnable carbon Retail Banking – changes (fewer employees) Mesh of braids to extract uranium from the seas High-density, light-weight batteries Brain-to-brain interfaces have arrived 3D printers for drugs on demand Launch of Circular Economy 100 Soya beans CO2 emissions Greece and diseases Energy Bill Cyber attack - Middle East Preppers Fracking The ‘cloud’ and data security Wheat rust and world farming Robotic surgery What is the future of biofuel? Social Unrest – OECD project on Future Global Shocks Resource Futures Report – Chatham House Solar storms OnLine Electric Vehicles (OLEV) 3D printing and remote manufacturing Self-healing materials Energy efficient water purification Carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion and use Remote sensing Drug delivery through nanoscale engineering Organic electronics and photovoltaics Fourth-generation reactors and nuclear-waste recycling Solar Cooling: The Next Frontier for Distributed Generation?
- 29. West of England
- 30. Are you ready for anything?
- 31. Think about the next few decades What concerns you most? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future? Do you consider that you are well prepared for the future?
- 32. Discussion
Editor's Notes
- Aiming for a workshop every two months plus specials – e.g. voluntary sector. Workshop I, What does ‘Prepare for Change’ mean Workshop II, Measurement and evaluation Workshop III, Sept – Global Food Systems Workshop IV, Dec – Technology changes for a green world Workshop V, Mar – Automation and Employment Workshop VI, May – Climate Change Workshop VII, July – Social Order Workshop VIII, Oct – Global Energy Workshop IX, Dec – Supply Chains & Consumption