1 | GLOBAL 2 FUTURE INNOVATION SCENARIOS COLLECTION
PROCESS 1 INSPIRATION + CREATING CONTEXT
4 PRODUCING FUTURE SCENARIOS
For the first two weeks of the FutureLab, students were exposed to speakers across different verticals such as Healthcare, Living Environments, Future of Work, Retail and more opening their minds and expanding their horizons before starting the Future Scenarios process. During that time students worked in teams and discovered global innovations across industries and communities. The result can be seen in the first report of the FutureLab – 1|Global Innovation Collection: https://bit.ly/futurelabinnovationcollection
The work student teams did thus far created a rich context from which to develop future scenarios. Students were encouraged to create relevance within their scenarios that will help to carry plausibility balancing a link to what we know today while creating a narrative that is pushing the story far into the future through innovative thinking and new ideas.
5 CREATING SUPER SCENARIOS The work of the teams was aggregated to reflect the strongest driving forces and to create four “super scenarios”. As the student teams continue to dive into more concrete solutions envisioning the way we will live and work post-COVID, the “super scenarios” will serve as vehicle to test their ideas against these four alternate futures.
2 EXPLORATION OF DRIVERS + TRENDS
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People's need to communicate with others around the world, regardless of distance or other obstacles in between. Everything has to be connected online and through the internet. More Information available
Driving forces, sometimes called macro/mega-trend with a long life, a strong current resulting from many forces (society, technology, environment, economic, political) that cannot be influenced or manipulated. Drivers illustrate an underlying push that causes changes impacting people Driver Extremes and resulting in modified and observable behavior triggering a trend to appear. Fast-Living lifestyle
Cultures and Diversity
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The need of reducing cost, increase efficiency and do more for less
Fast-Living lifestyle
Students explored different trends and drivers producing meaningful insights that could inform a future direction through a deep understanding of “why” did xyz emerge and what is causing certain developments? The teams utilized visualization methodologies to illustrate their research.
Global Climate Change
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People's need to communicate with others around the world, regardless of distance or other obstacles in between. Everything has to be connected online and through the internet. More Information available
Entertainment
People can no longer separate their personal and professional lives
People have a distinct online separation between work and personal lives allowing them to have 2 online lives
Social media becomes a driving force in people's life decisions
Social media becomes a new way to express peoples lives and business/ news rather than a personal use
Places which have no access to internet become inaccessible to news and knowledge
The world becomes connected in a unseen way and allows for fast communication and knowledge sharing worldwide
Internet becomes more available to areas that previously had no access
People have a need to constantly be updated with current technologies causing many to go obselete even faster than before
The need for the latest stuff contribute to problem of polution
People live so fast that families sizes start to diminish due to the time needed to raise children
More time can be focused on each chiild in smaller families
People prioritize what is important to them in life due to the fast pace not allowing for distractions
There is no room for people to make mistakes or try different paths/careers
3 DETERMINING KEY DRIVING FORCES
Superpowers are shifting with rise of the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China)
People are being more unsocial and depressed without physical interaction
People are able to connect with anyone no matter the time due to the interent
Based on their research, each student team determined their top two driving forces, stress tested driver’s Impact on how we liveeach and work in 2030polar opposite to articulate extremes and used a 2x2 matrix to develop snippets that reflect the influence of these drivers in Countries Comes Online, Government the context of uncertainty and how they impact an Track Their Citizens the way we will live and work in the future. The teams created newspaper headlines and snippets to start the process of creating strong narratives Scenario Collages and storylines. People's need to communicate with others around the world, regardless of distance or other obstacles in between. Everything has to be connected online and through the internet. More Information available
Internet becomes more available to areas that previously had no access and allows online freedom to everyone
As more countries come online governments can enhance their ability to control/track their citizens
People are being more unsocial and depressed without physical interaction
People are able to connect with anyone no matter the time due to the interent
Fast-Living lifestyle
People live so fast that families sizes start to diminish due to the time needed to raise children
People have a need to constantly be updated with current technologies causing many to go obsolete but not everyone can afford the most updated
Polar Opposites Global Climate Change
People's need to communicate with others around the world, regardless of distance or other obstacles in between. Everything has to be connected online and through the internet. More Information available
Fast-Living lifestyle
Climate of the planet could be changed permanently to be hotter
Climate of the planet could be stabilized to an acceptable standard
Internet becomes more available to areas that previously had no access and allows online freedom to everyone
As more countries come online governments can enhance their ability to control/track their citizens
Planet could become inhospitable to human/animal life
Planet could flourish as species adapt to the new climate
People are being more unsocial and depressed without physical interaction
People are able to connect with anyone no matter the time due to the interent
How people live across the world is largely altered
How people live across the world is saved through global cooperation
People live so fast that families sizes start to diminish due to the time needed to raise children
People have a need to constantly be updated with current technologies causing many to go obsolete but not everyone can afford the most updated
Children's development is faster than before
Not all countries can afford to replace energies with green alternatives and reject them for economic reasons
Greener energy sources become mandatory over fossil fuels/people who use fossil fuels are shunned in society
Everyone the most updated technology constantly regardless of the situation due to the tech cycle requiring unified device usage
Collaberative efforts by all people on reinventing coastal areas, buildings and practices
The wealthy and privileged are able to afford the ability to adapt their current situation as others are forced to leave
Sustainability
Technology Ocean rise permanently affects coast lines
Coast lines become expansive and reclaim lost land
Fossil fuels completely stall all green energy innovations such as through lobbying
Greener energy sources become mandatory over fossil fuels
More care is payed to how our actions affect animals on the planet
More species go extinct every single year as people continue on their present course and stop caring
Technology is available to all groups and communities at all scales
� Private led sustainability initiatives by businesses and citizens
Technology sparsely available and only to the resource rich and wealthy
Children's development is faster than before
Not all countries can afford to replace energies with green alternatives and reject them for economic reasons
Greener energy sources become mandatory over fossil fuels/people who use fossil fuels are shunned in society
Everyone the most updated technology constantly regardless of the situation due to the tech cycle requiring unified device usage
Collaberative efforts by all people on reinventing coastal areas, buildings and practices
The wealthy and privileged are able to afford the ability to adapt their current situation as others are forced to leave
� Public led sustainability initiatives led by governments and IGOs
Technology is available to all groups and communities at all scales
Scenario 1 Global Climate Change
Global Climate Change
Scenario 2
Private led sustainability initiatives by businesses and citizens
Public led sustainability initiatives led by governments and IGOs
Scenario 3
Scenario 4
Technology sparsely available and only to the resource rich and wealthy
Impact of private led sustainability by businesses and citizens on communities and group
5 10 FUTURELAB FUTURELAB||Post-COVID-19: Post-COVID-19: How How will will We We Live Live and and Work Work in in the the Future? Future?
Allan is glad that his country, one of the poorest in South America has finally insti tuted a nationwide internet connection. He can talk to all of his relatives and old fr iends he has lost contact with due to ongoing military struggles between political groups. However some of his friends from another town are reporting that their r elatives were being arrested for discussing the current government in an online c hat. He thought that the internet was supposed to allow for free speech not catal ouge it for prosecution. The government can monitor the activity of their citizens t hrough the internet and can know their political view towards their country. It has raised the question of people privacy and security and people believe that gover nment can take advantage of their personal data.
