Future Trends

Welcome to the fast future …

Insight Into the CPA of the Future 2015 Study

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By Dr. James Canton and the Institute for Global Futures

We live in a time characterized by unprecedented, massive, and highly accelerated change that will affect our work, lifestyle, and society in radical ways—ways for which most companies are not fully prepared. There are new rules that defy the business logic of the past. New business models, globalized markets, new asset classes, and new risk factors make this a fast future of both great challenge, but even greater opportunity. We all need to get ready for a future where innovation and disruptions from every aspect of society will affect business.

Most new products and services that will dominate the marketplace by 2025 have not yet been invented. Companies driving disruptive change such as Google, Netflix, and Uber as well as innovations such as Bitcoin, cheap DNA sequencing, crowdfunding, and 3D printing are creating massive change that is coming faster then many people realize. The workforce is also changing drastically, as is the diversity of the US marketplace. Also consider that we are rapidly approaching a connected planet where the mobile Internet links billions of people. Smart Machines and artificial intelligence will compete with human labor for knowledge work. Talent, even more so then innovation, may well determine competitive advantage.

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The Top Trends That Will Shape the 21st Century Enterprise Dr. James Canton, CEO Institute for Global Futures

Welcome to the New Future. How are you going to cope with the most challenging business changes you have ever faced? What are the top trends you must know about today? How can you better plan for the future? The Institute for Global Futures provides an analysis of the top trends, scenarios and strategies that will shape the future of your enterprise. Whether that future is one minute or one year from today you need to be prepared to face the future challenges and risks.

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Terrorists steal quantum devices and high-jack time travel. No one of course believed this could happen–it defied science as we knew it. That was the problem. Hacking into the Grid Computing portal, cyberjacjkers from a bored breakaway former Russian republic, stumbled upon a quantum uplink that had a AI brain that was looking for payback.

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Complex and real-time changes will become the norm for business in the 21st century. At the same time we forecast going back to the future. Business leaders need to develop a capacity to envision future opportunities as well as challenges. The short term focus that grips many organizations misses rich opportunities for future success.

Customers Are Shaping The Future

Customers are driving change and setting the trends that will shape the future. Are you listening? If your organization or government wants to be in alignment with the future, listen to customers needs, wants and concerns-not just what they want today but what they will want in the future. Listening for this future value is the key to your future product and service development.

Linking everyone to everything around the world and beyond

Telecom will be forever reshaped in the future by the Internet. The cost-effectiveness and the flexible nature of the Net will drive telecom innovations. Multimedia wireless 4G and 5G systems will provide access to global markets, Internet-ready, rich multimedia. Event streaming will fully engage the user of nextgen telecom.

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Video interactive multimedia will become embedded in everyday objects from paper to clothes to cars all tied to a new communications Internet everywhere architecture. We will be living in the near future in a Blended Reality – part electronic and part physical in the so called “real world”.

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The Mapping of the Human Genome is just the beginning. Genomics, bioinformatics, Systems-Biology and Proteomics will transform biotech into a evolutionary design science affecting everything from health care to agriculture. Human performance enhancement will be the largest market in the 21st century.

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The manipulation of matter at the atomic level is what nanotech is about. This revolution, at first in the materials sciences will lead to innovations in energy, health care, food production and small cost-effective devices with enormous power.

Biochips, MEM’s, Microfluidics, Optics, Lab-on-a-Chip Systems, Microrobotics, and Beyond

Imagine combining the capabilites of a TV, computer and phone with a car, or perhaps an engine to drive your car that is organic? The brave new world of microdevices from pacemakers today to neural biochips embedded into the brain, for giving memories back is tomorrow.

Is a robot in your future?

Robots are already omni-present in industry, and are now appearing in law enforcement, medical facilities, the military . . . at the nexus coordinate of artificial intelligence, complex micro-mechanical systems, and eventually, nanotechnology, the next generation of autonomous robots is emerging.

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The climate is changing due to natural causes and mankind’s industrialization ethos. Global warming is a reality that will threaten health, life and security that must be dealt with now.

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Energy is a metaphor for the future economic mobility of the world. Deep changes are coming. Energy is mission-essential to the growth, social stability and security of all nations. Oil overdependence and petro-fuel decline offer the world an incentive towards the discovery of renewable energy.