A few thoughts on trends as we enter 2016... Preparing for our next event for http://future-ready-now.io - providing visionary leaders with training and a an ecosystem to support them in performing with purpose.

1. THE FUTURE IS NOW. ARE YOU READY?
2016

2. TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
 “New” technologies becoming mainstream
(e.g. 3D printing from houses to molecules)
 Robotics entering consumer applications
 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
 Deep knowledge and Big Data
 Enabling technologies (e.g. DAOs, Blockchain)
 IoT/Wearables - Everything becomes intelligent

3. UNDERSTANDING THE
OVERVIEW EFFECT
 Direct experience of Planetary
wholeness
 Planetary effects of Climate
Change (drought, floods)
 Requires to go beyond
“sustainability”
 Closed System production

4. GLOBAL
CONVERGENCE
 Visibility of each other
 Loss of Geo Arbitrage
 Transparency of Supply Chains
 Solutions from unexpected places
(blank canvases in threshold
countries)
 ONE Market with local cultural
biases  segmentation spectrum
is now from individual to planetary

5.  New levels of Individual Self-Awareness
 Extreme Customization and Uniqueness
 Shift toward distributed/ local production
(energy, food, water, manufacturing) with
planetary collaboration (Open Source
everything)
 Artisanal Products and Quality expectations 
Hand Crafted as affordable luxury in a peer to
peer economy
TRANSPLANETARYPERSPECTIVE AWAKENS
TRANSPERSONALPERSPECTIVEAWAKENS
INTERPERSONALPERSPECTIVE

6. COLLABORATIVE
KNOWLEDGE
EXPLOSION
 Amount of collective human
knowledge doubles every 2
months
 Work skills and jobs become
obsolete (49% of jobs by
2025)
 Shift toward continuous
learning
 Access to information/
knowledge becomes
ubiquitous
 From physical to digital
 Trend toward
dematerialization

7. OVERALL SHIFT TOWARD
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE
PURPOSE
OPPORTUNITY TO IMPRINT
PLANETARY CULTURE
SAN FRANCISCO
JANUARY 27, 2016
future-ready-now.io
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