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Oct 12, 20226 min read

Drivers of Change 2022 – Biotechnology

The latest instalment in our series on Drivers of Change is biotechnology. Although there are some overlaps with the 4th Industrial...

Oct 7, 20226 min read

Drivers of Change 2022 - the 4th Industrial Revolution

We identified the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” – the application of digital technologies and related advances – as our fourth Driver...

Sep 28, 20223 min read

Digitalisation and resilience

Digitalisation is in the news. Recent topics include whether Google’s LaMDA system shows sentience, and on the legal and other issues...

Sep 21, 20226 min read

Drivers of Change 2022: The climate crisis

The third of SAMI’s Drivers of Change is the climate crisis. Over the years since we first put this on our lists, we have seen the issues...

Aug 31, 20225 min read

Drivers of Change 2022 – Geopolitics

Our second global driver of change has, for a long time, been Geo-politics. In our definition this includes a move towards a “polymodal...

Jul 27, 20225 min read

Drivers of Change 2022 – Population Dynamics

SAMI continually monitors emerging events and tracks them against our standard set of 6 major drivers of change. Many events simply...

Jul 20, 20224 min read

Forecasts and their failings

Imagine you are driving a car. I tell you that if you continue driving the car in the same direction for a long time, at some stage you...

Jul 13, 20225 min read

Nature Conservation - some foresight considerations

The natural world is afflicted by a wide range of pressures, mostly man-made, from climate change to poaching. Encroachment on wild...

Jul 8, 20225 min read

Ensuring the food security of the UK

In June, our Director and Fellow Jonathan Blanchard Smith gave evidence to the UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Business...

Jun 24, 20226 min read

Climate change mitigation

The IPCC Working Group 3 report, published in June 2022, is a definitive base case analysis of the position on climate change. It makes a...

Jun 17, 20226 min read

What does the future hold for Europe?

This blog looks at the issues Europe faces in a changing world. Primarily the focus is on the European Union, whose 27 member states...

Jun 9, 20223 min read

Always Look on the Bright Side

With all the daily news of problems and issues, it’s easy to lose sight of the longer, more progressive trends that continue to drive...

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