Emerging & Critical Trends
The best way to see exactly what The Future Hunters do is to dive right in and read our work. Below is a sample of what you will find in Future Bites – The 9 Emerging & Critical Trends for Today and Beyond. These summaries are full of observations, predictions and educational insights that you can apply to your everyday business development. Consider them a little gift from us to keep you on track and looking forward.
The Covid-19 Trend Accelerator
How the world will look after the pandemic is not completely unknowable. In many cases, the pandemic accelerated many already-developing trends at an exponential pace.
Platform Consciousness V1.0
Observers ponder the philosophical question of whether the internet is conscious—or, more specifically, whether it is evolving to become conscious.
The “Roaring Twenties Redux”
Almost exactly a century ago, the U.S. and Europe experienced the exuberance of the “Roaring Twenties”. The parallels today, almost exactly a century later, and on the heels of a terrible global pandemic, are remarkable if not eerily similar.
The Human Stock Exchange (HSE)
An economy built around capturing and maintaining consumer attention has long been building. Attention has been assigned monetary value, as has time. But what is beginning to shift is the way in which we assign financial value to people, and more specifically, to consumers.
Silver Linings: Short-Termism Exposed & The Emerging Long Game
Many changes brought on by the pandemic will be long-lasting. In some cases, the pandemic will strengthen forces that were already acting on the world economy, accelerating changes in trade, technology, finance and economic policy.
Fanatics
We are now seeing the evolution of a new type of social movement—one that is driven by the mainstreaming of fan culture. Fanantics are represented by growing armies of fandoms, many of whom are unleashing a range of antics aimed at cultural and political disruption.
Rise of the CEEO
The composition of the C-suite is evolving. Just as we saw the rise of CIOs, CTOs and CXOs in the last few decades, a similar shift is now occurring—toward chief ethics officers. This is the rise of what we call the CEEO: Chief Ethical Executive Officer.
Waitonomics
Our collective sense of time has been warped by an almost perpetual sense of waiting. Waiting for COVID testing. Waiting for a vaccine. But alongside these tiresome acts of waiting, the economic value proposition around waiting is being leveraged and monetized in new ways.
Truth Illusions
The world right now is confusing and disorienting. Competing—and fleeting—versions of reality spar in a constant battle to see which gains our momentary attention. That reality might be based on truths; it might be based on illusions. It might be based in both.
