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AN ALPHABET OF TOMORROW (Quicklist)The Future A-Z provides a rapid introduction to a range of challenges, technologies and trends that we may all need to have an understanding of to promote future gazing as future shaping. Listed below is as a "Quicklist" of the complete Future A-Z. For a more detailed coverage, please click on an individual entry or select from the menu boxes below. You can also click on Future Maps to see how Future A-Z entries can be linked as a practical input to your scenario planning. And if you don't fancy reading, why not watch the Future A-Z Video! A to G H to M N to T U to Z Quicklist Future Maps Video |
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Artificial Intelligence - computers, the web and robots getting smart.
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Biocomputers - organic computers emerge as wetware replaces silicon.
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Climate Change - global warming and its political and cultural implications.
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Dematerialization - the shift from physical exchange to digital exchange.
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Eugenics - the making of social choices to proactively direct human evolution.
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Flu Pandemic - the overdue and inevitable global mass killer.
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Genetic engineering - the science of screening and remodelling life.
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Helium-3 - the fuel for clean nuclear power plants. To be mined on the Moon!
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Internet Development - Web 2.0, Web 3.0, and computing in clouds.
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Joint Ventures - organizations teaming-up for survival and control.
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Knowledge Economy - trading in creativity and raw thought.
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Life Extension - the art and science of maximising your period of being alive.
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Mashups - the results of cutting-and-pasting data, applications, and even genes!
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Nanotechnology - conducting manufacturing and medicine at the atomic scale.
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Oil Shortage - towards a brave new world after the internal combustion engine.
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Population Ageing - the stark implications of most adults being old.
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Quantum Computing - potentially the ultimate calculating machines.
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Resource Depletion - recognising the closed system of Planet Earth.
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Space Travel - exploring, inhabiting, and profiting from the final frontier.
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Teleworking - working remotely using information technology.
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Ubiquitous Computing - building computers into the world where people live.
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Virtual Reality - building and inhabiting new worlds within computers.
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Women in Authority - a female-focused future with more holistic decision making.
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Xenotransplantation - swapping genes, tissues and organs between species.
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Youth Culture - selling to and capitalising from the first online generation.
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Zaibatsus - highly influential organizations more powerful than governments. .
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