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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
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Nov 23 2023
Aurore Geraud
TechnologyForesightMarketsTech vs. Tech: Bioleaching vs. phytomining
The EU is expected to intensify its own mining activity in the next few years, but traditional methods have serious social and environmental repercussions. Could bioleaching or phytomining mitigate these effects?
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Nov 9 2023
Giorgio Tarraf
TechnologyMarketsForesightSelf-powered sensors: Realising the dream of untethered power
Self-powered sensors’ ability to generate power eliminates the need for batteries, offering broadly applicable sustainable solutions for energy. Let’s explore the variations of this tech, current and future applications, and the role Europe plays in this field.
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