Supertrends : 50 things you need to know about the future / Lars Tvede.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Tvede, Lars, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Economic forecasting.
• Business forecasting.
• Technological innovations--Forecasting.

Physical Description:

xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd ; 2020.

Summary:

"Supertrends In Technology: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future is about how efficient futurists work, and how we can expect the world to evolve in terms of demographics, general economics, technologies, business models, resources, environment and lifestyles. This book addresses how to predict the future, what we can expect from it, and how companies and government should adapt to the accelerating change, and will also: Explain the core principles of efficient forecasting . List a number of underlying drivers and recurring social patterns which help explain and predict events. Shows how companies and governments can become more future-proof by adopting new and innovative management principles. Introduce new technologies and how they will be applied. The Supertrends project is a joint venture between Lars Tvede and Trifork. Trifork makes approx. 50 technology seminars annually, which are attended by an average of 1,500 delegates each. The Supertrends tools will be incorporated onto the seminars. The forthcoming www.supertrends.com site, app and community will initially have 10,000 selected expert members who will each contribute to the future consensus timeline, and will continue to be expanded. The author's Futures Institute will conduct workshops, speeches and seminars for leaders and investors. They will include books in these. Lars Tvede also speaks on the future at approx 50 events per annum - (average size approx. 150 people). Includes a session with 300 top managers of Novo, 30 from McKinsey, 500 at Danish Growth Fund Annual meeting, 150 at Danish parliament, etc. These events were for companies, think tanks, political parties and universities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Feeler, thinker, hedgehog, fox
• on predictions
• Demography and prosperity
• The biotechnological revolution
• life as computer technology
• Computers, software, and electronic networks
• The path to infinite energy
• The importance of innovation for resources and environment
• New networks and decentralised technologies
• The transport, houses, and cities of the future
• The new lifestyles
• experiences and self-realization
• Business management in a more dynamic world
• The political implications of tomorrow's technologies.
• Machine generated contents note: 1.Feeler, Thinker, Hedgehog, Fox
• On Predictions
• Are you a feeler or a thinker?
• Hedgehogs and foxes
• which are best at seeing the future?
• No! As in never!
• Our knowledge at double speed
• The creative design field
• The world's a much better place than people think
• 2.Demography and Prosperity
• The West versus the rest
• Population growth is actually decreasing rapidly
• Huge growth in prosperity continues
• A massive elderly boom
• Depopulation of rural areas
• Increased global equality and local inequality
• but will this continue?
• A more peaceful world
• The lost billion people
• the world's biggest problem?
• 3.The Biotechnological Revolution
• Life as Computer Technology
• Crispr
• the new genetic word processing
• New genetically engineered species
• Recreation of extinct species
• the real Jurassic Park
• Tomorrow's genetically modified humans
• A healthier, safer world
• Note continued: Revolutions in the fight against cancer
• New cells for old lives
• Wearables, self-diagnoses, biohacking, and lifestyle medicine
• The intelligent healthcare of the future
• 4.Computers/Software, and Electronic Networks
• From exceptional to magical
• Bell's Law of new computer classes
• Cloud computing and the as-a-service movement
• Al
• the career cul-de-sac that suddenly got hot
• IoT
• nerve fibres for the mechanical world
• Big data = big deal
• Smart robots
• the new ecosystem
• Smart remote control
• the magic wands of reality
• Quantum computers
• billions of times faster
• VR
• dream worlds for real
• AR
• Pokemon GO on steroids
• Ambient user experience
• the frictionless total experiences
• Cyberattack
• crime-as-a-service and lots more besides
• The new stalker economy
• 5.The Path to Infinite Energy
• Fossil fuels
• the culmination is approaching
• Vast, constantly growing reserves
• Note continued: Nuclear power
• a renaissance on the way?
• Nuclear fusion
• the ultimate energy solution
• 6.The Importance of Innovation for Resources and Environment
• Innovation, dear friends. Innovation!
• Ideas
• the ultimate resource
• Meat produced without animals
• Greater prosperity, better environment
• Global warming in perspective
• The world is actually getting greener
• The sixth mass extinction?
• 7.New Networks and Decentralised Technologies
• Geosocialisation. Who
• and where!
• you are
• The e-commerce revolution
• far from over
• Influencer marketing
• The wild decentralised autonomous organisations
• Blockchain
• the Internet of Value
• The rating economy
• good for markets and culture
• The global village and its new cyber rock stars
• Share, care, and save (sharing economy)
• hot, hot, hot
• Exponential organisations: big money!
• 8.The Transport, Houses, and Cities of the Future
• Note continued: The transport of the future
• faster and more flexible
• Innovation in the construction sector
• Tomorrow's jet-set nomads
• 9.The New Lifestyles
• Experiences and Self-realisation
• The experience economy
• all the world becomes a stage
• The changeable idea of prestige
• Self-realisation
• the service in which you are the product
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• self-realisation that gets cheaper
• Do-it-yourself and maker movements
• working for fun
• The human cloud
• total transformation of the labour market
• More backsourcing
• Bespoke media
• Multi-identities are more acceptable
• Intelligence amplification
• better, more flexible education
• 10.Business Management in a More Dynamic World
• Impulsive organisations
• Conformist organisations
• Achievement organisations
• Pluralist organisations
• Evolutionary organisations
• New technologies create new forms of management
• Note continued: The new information paradigm: seek-sense-share
• What should be kept permanent and what should be done flexibly?
• Delegation
• activate the staff
• Involvement
• make use of your meta-organisation
• Inclusion: mobilise the whole world for your project
• Algorithm-based management versus human management
• 11.The Political Implications of Tomorrow's Technologies
• Three social standard patterns that often undermine civilisations
• The future welfare society
• pyramid states or agile app stores?
• The battle for top-down management and decentralisation
• Openness or closedness?
• The information problem in public management
• Government as a platform: small government
• big services
• The growing attraction of basic income
• Value-based public management
• good or bad?
• 12.The Final Rule.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tvede, Lars, 1957- Supertrends

ISBN:

• 9781119646839
• 1119646839

OCLC:

1120784019