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We're a foresight company.

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.

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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. 

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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.

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Insights

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Jessica Buchleitner

TechnologyMarketsSocietyGovernance

Programming trust: Web3 could break programmatic ad tech's spell. Are we ready?

Certain priorities were etched into the Web 2.0 advertising ecosystem. Web3's more thoughtful programming, rewarding community cohesion and robustness, could change what we expect from technology and each other.

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Apr 21 2023

Johanna Costigan

MarketsTechnologySocietyCulture

Shanzhai knockoff culture might kill ‘innovation’. Long live invention!

Forgery nurtures invention. As it spreads globally, “shanzhai” culture may cure us of our preoccupation with innovation and authorship. We could well become creators again.

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Mar 30 2023

Nathalie Béchet

TechnologyMarketsForesight

Not just sci-fi: Aerographene

Aerographene is a two-dimensional carbon nanomaterial. It's is about 6 times lighter than air and can perch, without trouble, on a single flower petal. How far is it from leaving the realm of sci-fi?

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News

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Mar 13 2022

Financial Times

Is the NFT market about to collapse?

That might be premature, but the industry is certainly changing.

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Mar 9 2022

NonFungible

The 2021 NFT Market Report: Presented by NonFungible and L'Atelier BNP Paribas

After hitting $17.6 billion in sales last year, what's next for the NFT industry?

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Mar 9 2022

CNBC

Report: $17.6 billion in NFT trades during 2021

Moving forward, one type of asset holds particular promise.

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We are an interdisciplinary team of economists, journalists, scientists and researchers interested in the consequences of technological and societal change.

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