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The Neo-Urbanites: The Urban Recalibrator
Meet the Urban Recalibrator, a Neo-Urbanite for whom green space, community initiatives and knowledge-sharing make dense city living restorative.
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Global Drivers 2027+: Globalisation Reordered
The rules and institutions that governed global trade, security and cooperation are fracturing as power is dispersed across more actors, but the architecture to manage it has not arrived. The world is being reordered without agreement on what replaces it.
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Tech’s Next Data Layer: Reading Emotion
A new generation of technology is learning to sense, interpret and influence human emotional states, turning stress, mood and wellbeing into a layer of data.
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Retail
The Supermarket as Fashion Label
Supermarkets and grocery retailers are manufacturing cultural cachet from within their existing low-price identity.
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