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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
Will - A tale about the price of privacy
Our privacy is determined by the choices we make every day. We have created Will, a fictional virtual assistant set 10 years in the future, to explore the future privacy implications of our current decisions.
Insights
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Jun 17 2021
Angela Natividad
Digital AnthropologyMeet Anthony Kelly, Digital Anthropology Director
L’Atelier BNP Paribas is among few companies with in-house digital anthropologists. In this QA, Anthony Kelly explains digital anthropology from his perspective, why it matters, what purpose it serves in companies and for communities … and whose work he most envies.
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Jun 17 2021
Angela Natividad
Digital AnthropologyMeet Nathalie Béchet, Digital Anthropology Researcher
In this QA, L'Atelier digi-anth researcher Nathalie Béchet describes what she considers digital anthropology to be, why it matters, what purpose it serves in companies and for communities … and what most excites her about the future.
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Jun 11 2021
Johanna Costigan
GovernanceTechnologyCultureContemporary China Negotiates with Economies Real and Imagined
It is unclear exactly how much economic or innovative leeway tech companies and individuals operating in China really have. Is participating in a Taobao village considered innovative? What about the farmer peddling her wares via livestream? Is it possible to perceive, and thus safely navigate, government-accepted boundaries of invention and profit?
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