by Graeme Codrington | Nov 5, 2008 | Future Trends
At our company, TomorrowToday, we track trends and try and make informed predictions about the future of work. Recently, my colleague, Keith Coats, was traveling through the USA and was asked what “the world” thought about the elections. His...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Dec 21, 2007 | Archive, Future Trends
The explosion and evolution of social networks on the internet is something I have been watching and participating with a keen interest especially Youtube, Facebook and SecondLife. What is great about these social networks is that around the time of the dotcom crash...
by Graeme Codrington | Dec 18, 2007 | Archive, Future Trends
One of our colleagues, Raymond de Villiers, is doing formal post grad work in Future Studies. He is particularly interested in future backward scenarios and alternative histories as methodologies of future planning (Google these terms if you’re interested, or...
by Graeme Codrington | Nov 28, 2007 | Future Trends
A report from The Economist, titled: Within spitting distance, from Nov 20th 2007 edition. Read the full story here (I think a subscription might be required), or see extracts below. MEDICINE has long been a mysterious art. Some people are more susceptible to disease...
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by Graeme Codrington | Nov 14, 2007 | Future Trends
One of the issues we are tracking closely at TomorrowToday is the ageing Boomer generation, and the impact they are likely to have on the workplace, on retirement (we prefer to call it retyrement) and society as a whole. Here is a great piece I saw recently in an...
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 28, 2007 | Archive, Future Trends
This past week, ICBC, the world’s most valuable bank (valued at $319 bn) took a 20% stake in Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets. The deal is worth $ 5.5bn. This is the largest foreign investment by a Chinese bank anywhere in the world. And it...
