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What's Changing? - Megatrends

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Please see below recent megatrends-related change.

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Q4 2018

  • If current trends hold, the world will include 48 cities with populations over 10 million people by 2035, up from 33 today. Of the 15 contenders for mega-city status, 10 are in Asia, two are in the Middle East, two are in Africa, and one is in Europe. None are in the Americas, noted GZEROMedia.

 

Q3 2018

  • EY released its latest report on megatrends shaping 2018 and beyond “What’s after What’s next – the upside of disruption”. The report looks at disruption through a framework that highlights four distinct kinds of change: primary forces, megatrends, future working worlds and weak signals. These elements occur at different times, and with different levels of uncertainty and scales of impact. Most meaningfully for corporate decision-makers, they demand different kinds of responses.

 

Q2 2018

  • Still highly relevant is the 2017 FutureProofing podcast, which asked: does the accelerating pace of technology change the way we think about the future? It's said that science fiction writers now spend more time telling stories about today than about tomorrow, because the potential of existing technology to change our world is so rich that there is no need to imagine the future - it's already here. Does this mean the future is dead? Or that we are experiencing a profound shift in our understanding of what the future means to us, how it arrives, and what forces will shape it?
  • People tend to believe that others will come around to their point of view over time, according to findings from a series of studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings show that this “belief in a favorable future” holds across various contexts and cultures, shedding light on some of the causes and consequences of the political polarisation evident today.
  • Click on the following widget to see top global futurists in 2018 - Futurist Influence Rankings from Ross Dawson.
  • As robots get better at light industrial tasks like apparel manufacturing, whole swaths of the developing world are about to get stretched tight. Bangladesh alone needs to create roughly 2 million new jobs every year to keep pace with an expanding population. But job growth in the country's most important industry, textiles, is getting clobbered by automation, according to Eurasia Group.
  • Some 92 percent of Brazilians are worried about the inability to discern fake news from real news online, according to a poll done late last year. That is the highest percentage of any country surveyed. Germany, as it happens, is the only country where a majority of citizens are not worried about this problem, said Signal Media,
  • Oxford University released a study that confirmed the worst-kept secret of the last 18 months: social media has been harnessed to spread politically polarising content. But there are also more optimistic signals, as people use technology to heal these divisions, too. VR has found a use case in helping consumers encounter challenging situations (from migraines to sexual harassment), and in the process build empathy and understanding, according to TrendWatching.
  • As actual conflict rages in the Middle East, noted Eurasia Group, a more nebulous battle is playing out in cyberspace where – by comparison with conventional war – there are still relatively few rules of the game. Beyond gamely broaching the subject, there’s little desire among the major cyber powers to cooperate in limiting this new form of conflict.

 

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