Spiritualism
Robotics
Virtual worlds
Anti-incumbent elections
GPS
Wireless
Constant partial attention
S t r eam of unco n sci ous n e ss
Mobile devices
Place shifting
Single global currency CHIME liquidity
Too much information Time Shifting Aggregation
Fear
Monolines
Data visualisation
Private currencies
Fragmented families
Digital money Death of cash Industrial provenance
Deregulation P2P lending Urbanisation
Corporate power
Blended families
Celebrity politicians Nostalgia NGO power
Extended financial families
Voter antipathy
Downshifting
Single person households
Decline of nuclear family
Boomerang kids
Declining fertility
Same sex couples (with kids)
Pessimism
Personalisation
Middle class unrest
Online video
Rhythm & balance
Web 2.0
Virtual protest
LEGEND
Making things
3
Global voting
Enterprise 2.0
Physiological neoteny
Simplicity Artificial body parts
Networked risk
Globalisation
Social networks
Power shift eastwards
Ageing ‘Free’
Shortage of talent
Debt
End of low-cost inputs
Polarisation of markets
Device convergence
Digitalisation
Economic recession
Prediction markets
Anxiety
Public-private partnerships
Happiness
4
Food inflation
Industry convergence Climate change
Individualism
Transparency
Labour migration
The Environment
Litigation
Open innovation
Chinese liquidity
Immigration
Risk aversion
RFID
Private equity
Xenophobia
Celebrity worship
Embedded intelligence
2
Tribalism
Search for meaning
Biotech
The attention economy
Russian nationalism
Collectivism
Nanotech
Ocean of liquidity
Re-localisation
Riv er of consciousness
Trend Blend 2008+
Karma capitalism
5
Ubiquitous connectivity
Mountains of debt
Geospatial web
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Speeding-up
VOIP
Techophobia
Humans 2.0 Reality mining Artificial intelligence 3-D printers
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Female chauvinism
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