Institute For The Future

The future is our chance to be new. This
year’s Ten-Year Forecast research delves into issues from a collapsing economy paving the way for new kinds of value to a new voice rising from the Global South plotting a new path for the next big economy, to extreme climate conditions wiping the landscape clean, to a new neuroscience presenting an extraordinary new picture of humans, and much much more.

This year’s map blends forecasts of innovation and disruption with a handful of Superstruct Ecologies—along with dozens of signals on the horizon—to create the 2009 Map of the Decade that features five big shifts:

1) Extreme-Scale Collaboration,

2) Alternative Wealth,

3) Superstruct Ecologies,

4) Mega-Structures, and

5) A Governance Renaissance.