Linear Thinking
• Or: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
We think like this
Herman Kahn
• Futurist
• Co-wrote ”Towards 2018” in 1968
• Man-controlled tornados
• Mach 25 aircrafts
• No mention of USSR
• Exaggerated technology and played down social trends
(Self) Educated Responsible, Post-9/11.
The Digital Natives
More private than millennials, shares data, but in limited circles/circumstances
Quantified Self
Tolerant – grown up with genderneutral bathrooms and marriage equality. Post-race, post-gender.
Narcissism on the rise
Life-time prevalence tripled among 20-29 compared to 65+
Millennials will be 75% of the US workforce in 2025
Generation Z will have 40% of consumer shopping in 2020
“Me time on the job”
Millennials want flexible work schedules
Generations Z: Unique is the new cool – uses products to express unique sense of identity
Generation Z: Brand Loyalty
They form brand loyalty quicker (but also leaves a brand quicker due to bad experience) than other generations. Influence, not affluence
Voice will (might) drive interaction
Digital Twins
Long-term consequences of behavior
Virtual Assistants will augment human decision making
Economic inequality
Might rise when rich people have an AI to support their decisions, and poor people don’t
Apathy awaits?
We might become apathetic, due to decision delegation.
Globalization and technologies like automation disrupts and will continues to disrupt jobs.
77% in China
Strained
social contracts
Populism
Populist movements against automation and other threatening new technologies
Let’s live in Åtvidaberg!
Technologies like AR, VR, AI, Additive Manufacturing, IoT are enablers.
New Innovation Communities
They give rise to the rural innovation communities.
Smaller cities will become more popular.
Also driven by prices in hotbed areas that will fuel and be fueled by income inequalities
The return of the Old Cities. With excess capacity that might be used for new innovations.
Lite Detroit, below.
Information overload because of heavy urbanization and commercilization
Stimuli free zones
Stimuli free zones
Automation
means the rise of new identities
Reflexive lives
Emergence of new morphed identites
