Megatrends 2018

1. Future Watch - Megatrends
Re-organizing trust (Blockhain): movement toward cashless
societies, a peer-to-peer (P2P) economic
infrastructure, new asset classes and trust mechanisms,
Platform economy, sharing economy, emerging data
economy – programmable economy, Human economy,
basic income models
Global inequality, increasing wealth gaps, Future without work
Political shifts: trend towards nationalism and isolationism
(Trump, Brexit), new generation to politics, New Geopolitics and Asia
Climate Change
Data economy
Real-time Translation Software, Cyber
threats, Internet of hacked things, privacy concerns
mainstreaming, Virtual reality,
Augmented reality, from machine learning
to deep learning, Combating Misinformation
Digitalization, Mobilisation
Cognitive intelligence:
Supremacy of AI, Virtual personal assistants, Chatbots,
Algorithms anticipating human actions,
Quantum computing Arms race,
New Mobility: autonomous vehicles, Internet
of everything, Industrial IOT
Aging population
Urbanization
Connected homes and living, megacities, service
robotics, 60+ emerging senior market
Socio-Cultural Change
Sharing as work and culture, C-to-C, value of
free time, Ethics of AI, transhumanism:
relation to augmented human capabilities,
Rise of Enterprise Behavioral Science
Knowledge revolution
Circular economy, sustainable manufacturing,
smart grids, Cyborg plants, renewables, energy storage,
Global Natural Disaster Strategies
Predictive and preventive
healthcare, Microbiomics, nutrigenomics,
transhumanism (augmented human body), precision care,
Algoritmic biology
Globalization
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