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"Around 3.7 million Australians have been unintentionally caught in an ocean
rip. For the unprepared it can be a harrowing experience – but for experienced
surfers, rips are a handy way to ride through the whitewash and out to the
break.
We’re not surfers, but we work at Australia’s national science agency in
“strategic foresight”, which you can think of as the study of the currents
taking the world into the future. These currents are a bit like ocean rips:
they present risks for those who don’t understand them, but opportunities for
societies, organisations and people who are prepared.
We call the biggest currents “megatrends”, and in a new report we examine the
megatrends that will shape the next 20 years.
From learning to live in a changing climate and shrinking our ecological
footprint to navigating geopolitical earthquakes and the rise of artificial
intelligence, these seven megatrends will transform many aspects of our lives
over the coming decades."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
