Signals from the future

Discover cutting-edge thinking and deep insights to understand the forces shaping the future of business and society.

17 Feb 2022

Microchips save the American Dream

Remember the global shortage of silicon chips six years ago, and how that threatened to derail a resurgent economy? The...

Microchips save the American Dream

Remember the global shortage of silicon chips six years ago, and how that threatened to derail a resurgent economy? The...

Big tech wants to give you NFTs

At heart, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are just tokens, and can be collected, traded, or exchanged for services or other tokens,...

Colliding Worlds: An introduction

Futureworld Guru Anton Musgrave introduces us to “Colliding Worlds.”

No one wants our gas!

It’s amazing how fast things can change, and power can shift, in this exponentially accelerating world. Just eight short years ago, Russia’s Gazprom had Europe over a barrel, dictating prices and using their ability to restrict supply to support their president’s political posturing. Russia was accused of deliberately withholding gas...

We face an eXponential wave of change

Futureworld Guru Neil Jacobsohn shares insights on the exponential wave of change facing financial services companies in the future.

Getting to grips with air taxis

With all the books, articles, and essays that have been written about flying cars, and why we don’t have them,...

Everybody’s looking for a new sensation

Virtual reality has come a long way, and the ability to participate in video games and wander around virtual worlds...

The World in 2029 in 3 minutes

Futureworld Guru Anton Musgrave takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world in 2029

Microchips save the American Dream

Remember the global shortage of silicon chips six years ago, and how that threatened to derail a resurgent economy? The...

Big tech wants to give you NFTs

At heart, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are just tokens, and can be collected, traded, or exchanged for services or other tokens,...

Colliding Worlds: An introduction

Futureworld Guru Anton Musgrave introduces us to “Colliding Worlds.”

No one wants our gas!

It’s amazing how fast things can change, and power can shift, in this exponentially accelerating world. Just eight short years...

We face an eXponential wave of change

Futureworld Guru Neil Jacobsohn shares insights on the exponential wave of change facing financial services companies in the future.

Getting to grips with air taxis

With all the books, articles, and essays that have been written about flying cars, and why we don’t have them,...

Everybody’s looking for a new sensation

Virtual reality has come a long way, and the ability to participate in video games and wander around virtual worlds...

The World in 2029 in 3 minutes

Futureworld Guru Anton Musgrave takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world in 2029

Researchers develop new method embedding atoms one-by-one to build quantum chip

A team of researchers has developed a new silicon construction technique that could potentially improve the affordability and reliability of...

Welcome to dysturbia

The evolution of society from villages, towns and cities to cities, suburbs and slums was well underway when two powerful forces shaping the future clashed head-on – rampant tech innovation and the impending climate crisis. Only a spark was needed to ignite the revolution.

A new pandemic looms

Over the past few decades, we’ve battled a number of global infectious diseases; and most of them are caused by...

Death of the financial centre

London, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore; the names of cities that are famous hubs for global finance are easy...

Provocative Scenarios 2021

We can’t predict the future, but it helps to look at disruptive forces and get some clues as to what might happen in the next several years.

Happy New Decade

As we say goodbye to the Roaring Twenties, what fantastic new developments, technological wonders, and global catastrophes await us? January...

All I want for Christmas is my freedom back

You would think, now that Covid has been defeated – more or less – that things would open up. That...

Repair your genes at home

For some years now, scientists and researchers have been able to ‘reprogram’ our skin cells into stem cells that morph...

Antarctica gives up the gas

Natural gas has long been touted as the obvious successor to coal and oil in the global energy mix. It’s...

Say goodbye to Black Friday

The last five years have seen a steady decline in those annual super sales like Singles Day, Black Friday and...

Nothing is lighter than air

First discovered by Chinese scientists in 2013, graphene aerogel was considered the lightest material in existence, less dense than air...

New hope for fusion energy

After almost a century of research and experimentation, we are on the cusp of finally harnessing the power of nuclear...