Turbulent Transitions
If you are keeping up with your futures’ reading then you’ll know about the plethora of trends and drivers that are shaping, or could shape, our future — continuing globalization, population growth or...
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The Atlas of Economic Complexity
An analysis of economic complexity by Hausmann et al. from MIT presents a different perspective on economic potential than that provided by the World Economic Forum. The main contention from Hausmann...
View Article12 Trends post-Christmas (Part 1)
Here’s (part 1 of) my seasonal selection of some trends to keep an eye on, not just in the New Year but over the longer term. In 2012 I’ll spend more time on exploring implications of such trends...
View ArticleA looming global cyber security crisis?
Is our cyber future going to be the playground of spies and hoods? Is it already a mash-up of Big Brother and the Sopranos? And how much does it matter? The recent national and international...
View ArticlePredicting disruptive technologies
There’s a lot of intellectual as well as commercial interest in predicting what the next big technological developments will be. Last month McKinsey Global Institute published its list of 12...
View ArticleGreening China?
After posting yesterday’s energy forecasting blog two pertinent articles on China popped up in my e-mail. The first noted that China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection appears to be taking a...
View ArticleMINTies media moments
This week Radio NZ National has been running a BBC series on the MINT economies – Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. Jim O’Neill, the economist who coined the term BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India...
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