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 LONG TERM TRENDS SHAPING OUR WORLD

The world is since the 1950s experiencing accelerating change. Below you find a selection of online resources, speakers and YouTube clips, which aim to create an understanding of the forces in motion - such as mega trends, accelerating change, exponential growth, disruptive innovation and creative destruction.  


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TED TALK

Peter Diamandis shares how we are rapidly heading towards a human-scale transformation, the next evolutionary step into what he calls a “Meta-Intelligence,” a future in which we are all highly connected - sharing thoughts, knowledge and actions.

VIDEO

Mark Esposito talks about the forces of mega trends and how an understanding of mega trends can create new business opportunities. He shares the DRIVE framework that allows us to best determine how we can understand the future as it unfolds

 

TED TALK

What’s next? It’s the question we never stop asking, with new answers emerging every day trends and data reports. Alison Sander explains how you can spot growing trends and gives five tips on how you can use trends to your advantage.

 

TED TALK

How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know.

 

TEDx TALK

Alec Ross shares his foresight about the innovations that will shape our future, and the skills we and our children will need to be a part of it in order to provide lessons from tomorrow, today.

 

VIDEO

Planning for the future is never easy. This is especially true in today’s world, where the unpredictable and unexpected have become the norm. In this video you will learn about VUCA, an acronym that stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity.

 

VIDEO

Previous industrial revolutions made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is, however, fundamentally different.

 

VIDEO

Creative Destruction illustrates the economic cycles that occur within capitalism as technology evolves over time. While this process does not always benefit everyone, it is an essential part of economic growth and innovation. 

 

 

VIDEO

According to Visual Capitalist 7 of the world's 10 largest economies will be in emerging markets by 2030. China, India, United States, Indonesia and Turkey are the top five.

 

ARTICLE

Eddie Yoon (2020) distills three long-term effects of COVID-19 on companies. First, how many workers choose to permanently work from home? Second, do single-person households continue to grow? And third, does fear of density continue well past the epidemic?

 

ARTICLE

Andrew S. Winston (2019) paints a picture of what the big trends tell us about 2030 and some strong indications of where we could be with which impacts on our lives, careers, businesses, and the world.

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Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation and a fact tank. They produce free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics and promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.

 

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This is a tool to help you discover future trends relevant for your industry. Their team of futurists and foresight researchers continuously monitor all industries globally to detect which trends might have an impact on your future so you can stay up-to-date on emerging changes.

 

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The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.