What's Changing? - Travel
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October 2021
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What's Changing? - Space
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14 October 2021
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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight up - Fred Hoyle
October 2021
What's Changing? - Transport
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September 2021
What's New? - Travel
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On what may change - 21 for 21
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25 March 2021
Please see below a range of 2021 outlooks and forecasts, grouped across the following 21 topics.
- Business, Climate, Conflict, Demographics, Economics, Energy, Food, Freedom, Health, Innovation, Nature, Politics, Purpose, Risk, Space, Sustainability, Technology, Travel, Trust, Values and Work.
There is also a bonus list of additional 2021 forecasts in appendix.
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On Virtual Experience
Imagine anyone being able to travel virtually anywhere...such as along the Trans Siberian Railway. No substitute for the original, certainly, but perhaps a relatively green way nonetheless of democratising curiosity.
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Being cut loose from the habitual is the essential gift of travel, as uncomfortable as it may be psychogically fruitful. Christianity once took our feelings of dislocation and placed them at the heart of a thesis as to the spiritual benefit of pilgrimages. Without accepting the church's analysis, we may nevertheless be inspired by its approach to the value of feeling like a lonely outsider. As much as any destination, it is isolated periods in untried hotel rooms, in paleozoic canyons, in disintegrating palaces and empty service station restaurants that facilitate an underlying psychological or spiritual point of our journeys - Alain de Botton http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2010/06/alain-de-…
On Detours
"The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour." - Anon
Halcyon Highlights no.1
Halcyon Highlights is a bi-weekly round-up of some of the most compelling trends that we have spotted over the past fortnight. + , - or = indicate whether we consider each trend/development to prove mainly positive, negative or neutral/too early to judge...
Impact of actively trying to make a difference
Leading economist and activist Jeffrey Sachs believes that there are many practical things individuals can do to make a positive difference in the world.