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We identify future market opportunities and challenges in digital and virtual domains through research, analysis, and exploratory fiction.
We make sense of tomorrow, today.
Our work considers the challenges and opportunities that will emerge when new technology transforms society. We explore the space where the real and virtual environments converge.
Opportunity
The Virtual Economy - An exploratory deepdive
The Virtual Economy is a system of sophisticated platforms, fledgling marketplaces, skilled nixers, volatile assets, and ambitious pioneers that exist uniquely in virtual environments.
Opportunity
The Virtual Economy Technology Radar - An interactive map
This interactive visualisation features 54 key emerging technologies underpinning the Virtual Economy - their current capabilities, level of activity, likely trajectory, and research ecosystem.
Challenge
Social Mobility in the Digital Age - How technology changes the dynamics of social mobility
This project explores the ways in which technology is constraining, facilitating and exacerbating issues with social mobility in developed capitalist democracies.
Insights
See the latestSep 21 2023
Giorgio Tarraf
TechnologyForesightMarketsThe quantum conundrum: Challenges to getting quantum computing on deck
Despite significant progress, quantum computing remains in its infancy. This article sheds light on the challenges that currently prevent it from becoming part of daily life, and what innovations are pushing the technology forward.
Read moreSep 7 2023
Nathalie Béchet
TechnologyForesightThree emerging technologies for coping with an ultra 🔥 future
Climate change-fueled heat waves are breaking records worldwide. If their frequency and intensity keep increasing, these three emerging technologies—identified by L’Atelier’s technology intelligence tool—will get their big break sooner than we expect.
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