Future Trends

Sports News Headlines for 4 September 2039: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended Just ahead of the first African Olympic Games in 2040, the latest Olympic sport of Jet Pack Drone Racing has been dealt a blow as two more deaths results in the suspension of the...

More of a hope than a prediction, this episode of ThrowForward Thursday has a rant warning attached, as we imagine a future where companies have stopped outsourcing their supplier management to procurement services that make it incredibly difficult to sign contracts,...

Breaking news in 2037: the thawing of Arctic ice releases a 40,000-year-old virus that doctors have never seen before. Another unintended consequence of global warming, and a reminder that our world is changing dramatically right now. How would your business respond...

'Bionic' means Humans and Technology not just working with each other but augmenting and even integrating to supercharge our outputs. There are three obvious ways this could happen: Robotic exoskeletons and human/robot hybrids Software and applications augmenting...

Imagine a world where a government bans energy drinks if they are proven to be bad for public health, and people are abusing their impact and causing damage to themselves and others. This is not a prediction, just a scenario. The question for you and your company is...

This is the start of Season 5 of ThrowForward Thursday. Welcome to 2029, where a weekly 15 second recording of your voice is used to diagnose a whole range of diseases and give early warnings of health problems in your body. This idea is based on the reality of recent...

The Tomorrow Today Podcast - a new podcast launched by the TomorrowToday team, focusing on mapping the future of business. The podcast builds on years of research about the future of work, providing insights on themes like leadership, organisational design, strategic...

As we look to the future, the role of data in shaping our world is undeniable. For businesses, embracing this data-driven revolution is not just an option; it’s a necessity to thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Why is data so crucial? Because it informs...

Come with me to the future, where we realise that Artificial General Intelligence is not just an improvement on Generative AI but something different, developed on a different path. GenAI / LLMs are brilliant. They're amazing tools, taking the sum of human knowledge...

Imagine a world where the boring parts of learning - the dumping data into our brains - is all done easily using neural transfers, augmentation and technology assistants. What's left is for the human brain to do what it does best: creative thinking, problem-solving,...

Ageing musicians still touring, and ageing fans still wanting to go to their concerts, might prefer an afternoon start time rather than waiting until 9pm or later for the main event. It's not just Festivals that should schedule afternoon concerts - maybe every band...

All plants extract minerals and nutrients from the soil they're growing in, but some appear to be able to extract metals as well, or at least metal ions that we can in turn extract from the plants. If we can do this at scale, we can use phytomining to get the metals...

As we watch elections in 2024 spanning nearly 70 countries and 4.2 billion people, one thing is clear: the current systems are not working. Voters are not happy and have little enthusiasm for the politicians they can choose between (if they have any real choices at...

ChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok, and all the other Generative AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with our technology using natural language. Now we need to get our devices to understand the heuristics of requests and actions we ask them...

Water scarcity is becoming a critical issue globally. As the world gets more and more water stressed, those who control water supplies in rivers, lakes, and dams, will exercise more power and restrict access to water to those downstream. This could lead to conflict -...

In our lifetimes we must find a way to end the use of plastic as we use it now so that we stop adding more toxins and pollution to our planet. From innovative cleanup projects to eco-friendly solutions, there are lots of ways that we can make a difference....

Imagine a world in which Rogue Waves made the oceans too dangerous for ships to sail, and we had to stop cruise liners and container ships from sailing. It would change our world as we know it. It is an extreme and alarmist scenario, with one of the worst cases for...

Spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings? It looks like something from a sci-fi horror movie, but actually this is the future of the $40 billion window cleaning industry. Robotic window washers. They can do more than clean, though - they do...

A company is suing its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. I wish I could make up a headline from the future that was better than this - it's actually a real story from February 2024 involving Air Canada. The practical lesson is that we...

Would you trust an AI-driven algorithm to help choose your life partner? If people were honest about the data they entered into these systems, and genuine in their desire to find a true life-partner match, this would definitely be an improvement on the basically...