Supertrends

INDEX

• 3D computer chips 17–18
• 3D printing 151–2
  • artificial tissue 75–6
  • buildings 206–7
  • do-it-yourself (DIY) culture 221
  • replicators 194–5
• 5G 85–6

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• as-a-service movement 88, 191, 215
• absolute poverty 144
• achievement organisations 237–8, 239, 262, 265–6
• aircraft 201–3
  • invention of, scepticism about 9–11
• algorithm-based management 246–8
• Amara's Law 23
• Amazon 91–2, 180–1
• ambient user experiences 88, 113–14
• anonymisation 189
• aquaculture 153–4
• architectural design 205
• artificial intelligence (AI) 87, 89–95
  • controlling robots with 104
  • and economic growth 42–3
  • and security 118, 208
  • trinity with big data and IoT 100–1, 102–3
• augmented reality (AR) 88, 111–13, 114
  • construction sector 207
  • and e-shopping 181
  • and geosocialisation 179
• automated guided vehicles (AGVs) 104
• autonomous cars 149–50, 152–3, 200, 201

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• backsourcing 198, 228
• basic income 269–70
• battery performance 86
• Baumol's cost disease 257, 258–9, 260
• Beckerman, W., availability of metals 147–9
• Bellabeat, smart jewellery 77
• Bell's law, computer paradigm shifts 86–8
• Berlin, Isaiah, The Hedgehog and the Fox 7
• bespoke media 229–30
• big data 87, 99–103, 181
• BiModal Glideway, transport 204
• biohacking 69, 77–8
• biotechnology 53–79
• Bitcoin 186
• blockchain 184–8, 192, 262
• book writing in the future 81–3
• Booker, Christopher, Scared to Death 29
• Brand, Stewart, Whole Earth Discipline 61
• brands 189
• Bregman, Rutger, Utopia for Realists 270
• Bricker, Darrell, Empty Planet 40
• bright environmentalism 162, 175, 275
• Buckminster Fuller, R., ...