Futurism

Selected recent 2050-related headlines:

Please see below a wide range of 2018 forecasts, curated by Halcyon.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

The 2010 Ten-Year Forecast Map of the Decade benchmarked the big forces that will shape the decade: The Carbon Economy; The Water Ecology; Adaptive Power; Cities in Transition and Molecular Identity.

WHAT ARE WE SEEING?

In 20 Forecasts for 2011-2025, World Future Society identified breakthroughs most likely to affect work, investments, and family life over the next 15 years.

The World in 2030 is a comprehensive survey of the trends that are going to shape life over the coming two decades.

By 2030, 4 billion people (almost half of the world's population) are forecast to be living in areas with high water stress.

Please see below the most compelling new megatrend headlines over the past month. This edition covers demographic, economic, societal, sustainability, technology and urban trends.

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Dominic Kelleher 

Global demand for energy will increase by 36% between now and 2035, according to forecasts.  Emerging economies will account for almost all of this increase.  

During October 2013, we listened to and would recommend the following podcasts:

Two centuries of western hegemony may be coming to a close rather earlier than many had imagined: in 2011 the economies of the rising states are likely to grow by 8% more, while debt-burdened advanced nations will mostly struggle to expand by more than 2%. The pattern is well-established.  The global divide is now between slow- and fast-growing nations as much as between the rich and the rising.