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Energy Vault and SOM designed four innovative gravity-based energy storage systems, US
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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Climate Adaptation and Resource Scarcity

More frequent extreme weather and the lived reality of climate change are creating new risks for states, businesses and people, while positive tipping points are being met with fragmented, uneven approaches to systems change itself.

Riksbyggen and BBDO Nordics's Swedish micro homes, Sweden
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Fragmenting Societies

Riksbyggen creates Sweden’s smallest apartments to highlight housing crisis

Developer Riksbyggen and creative agency BBDO Nordics have created three tiny flats based on what a 25-year-old can afford to buy today, with the smallest measuring just 1.9 square metres.

Helping Britain Invest Through It All by Wonderhood Studios for Hargreaves Lansdown, UK
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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Fragmenting Societies

The shared ground that democratic societies depend on is giving way – eroded not by accident, but by design – with political actors, platforms and economic structures active beneficiaries of the breakdown.

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Breakfast Briefing : Global Drivers 2027+

Join The Future Laboratory team as we unpack insights from our latest methodology series, Global Drivers 2027+.

What do I wear by Zalando. Creative by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, Global
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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Diverging Demographics

Demographic reality is diverging from the systems built to manage it, according to The Future Laboratory’s analysts, as populations continue to age, boom, fragment and re-organise how they live and connect.

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Travel & Hospitality

Foresight Friday: Alice Crossley, principal strategic foresight analyst

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, principal strategic foresight analyst Alice Crossley unpacks how the climate crisis is turning up the heat on the travel industry.

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Fragmenting Societies

Foresight Friday: Fiona Harkin, director of foresight

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, director of foresight Fiona Harkin looks beyond our ‘time of monsters’.

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Diverging Demographics

Foresight Friday: Fiona Harkin, director of foresight

Every Friday, the Future Laboratory team offers an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and viral moments we’re all talking about. Here, director of foresight Fiona Harkin tries to make it all make sense.

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Technology

The Future Laboratory unveils Global Drivers 2030

The Future Laboratory has released a 2024 refresh of its global drivers, a core part of its methodology.