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By: Alireza Hejazi
From the very beginning of Futures Studies there
has been a great deal of opinions concerning the main future trends.
This has become a tradition for many futurist think tanks to publish
a predictive report at the beginning of each year describing main
future trends in a top 10 format.
For instance, Mr. Richard Watson published his top 10 trends http://www.nowandnext.com/ in January 2009. He had mentioned 10 top future trends as: Fear & Loathing, De-Leveraging, Back to Basics, Digital Diets, Enoughism, IMBY’s, Seriousness, The Human Brain, Eco-Wars, and Fear of the Unknown. Again, World Future Society published its own top 10 future trends in the form of 10 forecasts for 2009 and beyond at: http://www.wfs.org/foresight/index3.htm This situation can be even seen in the State of the Future published annually by UN foresight team. Some of other futurists had also their own speculations about top future trends. Although many of these trends or forecasts were similar, I still wonder which "top 10 list" can be regarded as the mother of all of lists. If we take a look at STEEP approach in defining 10 top trends, we may find similarities in regional trends and differences in global ones, as well. As a member of Global Foresight Network what would be your suggestion in establishing a comprehensive and credible benchmark in defining global top 10 trends? What is your preferred 10 Top Future Trends list? | |||
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