Trends to watch out for
Part of my work for SICTAS is supporting an online event on future technologies (more here) where we hope to engage people in interesting, provocative discussion on what emerging technologies may yield for us in education. As I started to think about this I realised I can't just look at this area in isolation. A while ago I started to read a book entitled 'The extreme future: the top trends that will reshape the world in the next 20 years' by James Canton PhD. While the book seems to be primarily targeted at an American audience, it nevertheless offers some interesting insights for the rest of us too. Canton lists the following top ten trends and dedicates a chapter to each of them in his book:
- the energy crisis
- innovation
- workforce changes
- medicine/longevity
- 'weird' science
- security
- globalisation
- climate change
- the future of the individual
- the future of America and China
