Our recent blog looked at the emerging concept of “polycrisis” – how in a polynodal world, different problems collided, often with the effect of amplifying each other. The replacement of…
Category: Foresight
Polycrisis – The View From Davos
The New World Order Changes…. The World Economic Forum has reconvened in Davos this week, after the Covid-19 pandemic led to its postponement in 2021, and a shorter meeting in…
Opportunities and risks for 2023
Last December we reported on our thoughts about the coming year. As we review those, and think forward another twelve months, we note that futures thinking is not forecasting. Generally…
Drivers of Change – Social Attitudes
The sixth and last of SAMI’s Drivers of Change is “Social attitudes”, in particular how they are changing with different generations.Arguably this is one of the most fundamental drivers, as…
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 Revolution Driver we considered last time – notably the…