PREDICTING GLOBAL TRENDS - predicting the future to create advantage today
minimising future risk
creating sustainable advantage
creating opportunity
minimising future risk
creating sustainable advantage
creating opportunity
minimising future risk
creating sustainable advantage
creating opportunity
minimising future risk
creating sustainable advantage
creating opportunity
minimising future risk
creating sustainable advantage
creating opportunity
minimising future risk
creating sustainable advantage
creating opportunity
THE FUTURE BLOG
HAVE YOUR SAY: central@alt3.co.uk
THE WEST AS A TARGET: Has the west become a target for anyone with a psychopathic tendency?
CIVILISATION: civilisation is more than a society, more than a people, more than a culture. Civilisation is the measure by which we as individuals and we as a society interact, behave, progress. Inherent within this is how we treat others. This includes how we secure the future - and what we do to secure the future.
AFRICA: One of the great barely spoken secrets of this early part of the 21st century relates to the sustainability of current global fuel supplies - oil.
TERRORISM: There are some people in the world who use religion as a reason to murder, maim and destroy in the most horrific terms. People have been doing this for centuries. It was wrong then and it is wrong now. It is merely an excuse for psychopathic behavior that cannot be tolerated by any society.
SYRIA: Syria is in a key position. This key can unlock the door to significant and positive global change. Much now depends on whether or not the west can work co-operatively and allow Syria to play a pivotal role in world events.
IRAN: For many in the international community Iran is perceived as the greatest threat to global stability, as well as being the cause of much of the global anguish through the export of extremism and the funding of global terrorism. Is this perception correct?
FUTURE WARFARE: Does war have a future?
KNOWLEDGE: in the near future what will be one of the main distinguishing factors between organisations that are successful and those that are less successful.
SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: The pace of change is increasing throughout the world. The perspective of all you think you know is about to change. The future is unlikely to be as you suppose it to be. Those who close their eyes to the future will never survive in this future.
GLOBAL WARMING: This is one of those moments that have the ability to change the world. It all depends on what YOU do now. This is THE moment. Like every moment in time, once the moment is gone, it is gone and cannot be returned to once there is the advantage of hindsight. Do not ignore this moment. There will never be another one quite like it again.
WHY DO WE NEED A SPACE PROGRAM ANYWAY? Richard Godwin gives a very good insight into the need and continued support for a space program - why this is important and the relevance to the future of mankind.
THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS? The world is experiencing an increasing level of change. What will this mean for business over the next ten years? Business will be the key mechanism to deliver the predicted growth in the global economy. This growth will not be steady. It will remain fragile and exposed to rapid downturns. This growth will also not be uniform across the world. It is this latter probability that will arguably lead to the greatest destabilising effect.
THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY? Technology will advance rapidly. Within the next ten years there will be massive advances in technology, with resultant impacts on different areas of life. As with many things, this change will have both advantages and disadvantages.
CAR BOMBING: Car bombs, suicide bombs and the most atrocious acts of barbarism have now become common place throughout our world. They are also such a sad testament to the depths some people will plunge in order to seek revenge or to extol the virtues of their ideals. It’s easy to find people who will give reasons for mass murder and unspeakable suffering – but this doesn’t make it right.
LEBANON: Where in the world has suffered more from external interference than Lebanon? For most of human history the Lebanon region has been a major focal point for people, war and enterprise. From this rich combination and diversity there grew a country of wealth, a country who understood the differences in culture that so deluded many other areas of the world – and used this understanding to create more wealth. And then the extremists came ...
FRESH WATER SCARCITY: Less than 1% of the world’s water supply consists of readily available freshwater. Due to its scarcity and increased usage, there is an increased chance of low-level armed conflicts regarding freshwater resources.
ARE
WE LOSING CONTROL?: Is UK society facing meltdown or is the fear worse
than the reality? Have we forgotten what is right from wrong? Fuelled by
drugs, fuelled by disillusionment, fuelled by emerging tensions from high
levels of migration in an already dynamic social environment, city based
violent crime is rising. Gun crime is rising, knife crime is rising. The age
of the perpetrators and victims seems to be decreasing, involving more and
more school children, with almost a constant presence within the media of
smiling faces having their lives cut short by “children” with guns and
knives.
Have your say ... the future depends on it.
James Stuart: the thought leader in global development. This advisory service is designed to give relevant advice, insight and guidance. Would you like to know more?
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