What’s after what’s next?

The three discuss how the intersection of long-term trends in technology, globalization, and demography are creating the megatrends of the future, such as augmented humanity, super consumers, behavioural design and adaptive regulation.

Learning outcomes

• The megatrends of the future will emerge at the intersection of long-term trends in technology, demography and globalization.
• The dominant technological trend characterizing our current era is human augmentation; the dominant trend relating to globalization is populism.
• Superfluid markets will remove the friction in how consumers purchase goods by using sophisticated and seamlessly integrated technology.
• As populism continues to gain momentum, a new social contract will be required, to respond to shifting workforce dynamics as technology takes over some tasks and to address the growing inequality in the system.
• Business leaders have a greater responsibility to help shape the future of society.
• CEOs and boards should consider using the Megatrends framework to evaluate which megatrends will most impact their business in coming years, and begin preparing now.
  

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