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Fashion

India’s Me-First Generation

From everyday kindness to India’s little-treat economy, Indian Gen Z are navigating more cultural tensions than ever, Shruti Thacker, editorial director of youth culture platform The Established, tells LS:N Global.

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Diverging Demographics

Foresight Friday: Olivia Houghton, insights and engagement director

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, insights and engagement director Olivia Houghton discusses saving the UK economy, psychedelics research and artificially-enhanced humans.

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Fashion

Emerging Youth: The Maghreb

After years of political instability and social unrest, the Maghreb’s youth are still standing up for their beliefs and making themselves heard through creativity.

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Technology

Stat: Investors are having second thoughts about generative AI

Investment in generative AI start-ups is slowing, as investors realise that the majority of applications are still too unreliable for widespread use.

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Sustainability

Towards Ecology-first Economics

Dutch professor Kees Klomp on society’s economic delusion and how we can reconfigure the system to create a better future.

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Fragmenting Societies

Stat: The issue of inequality transcends the political spectrum

Throughout history, economists of different political persuasions have been known to disagree on all kinds of fiscal policies – but this is no longer the case.

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Climate Adaptation and Resource Scarcity

Stat: Australia’s youth feel the fallout from Covid-19

Research into the economic impact of Covid-19 in Australia shows that Generation Z are bearing the economic brunt of the crisis.

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Marketing & Branding

Post-purpose Brands

Pushing back against purpose-washing and jumping on the bandwagon, brands will embrace imperfection and focus on betterment. With more intuitive technologies, new products and services will constantly evolve to meet our needs.

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Technology

Behavioural science will boost your business

Rupinder Mann, founder of UnNamed Ventures, on the role of neuroscience, psychology, behavioural economics and creativity on the future of work.