Dubai Future Foundation

The Global 50

50 opportunities for future growth, prosperity and well-being, using 10 megatrends, five categories and four scenarios.

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Our view of the future
  3. Navigating the Global 50 report
  4. The 50 opportunities

Megatrends

  1. Materials revolution.
  2. Boundless multidimensional data.
  3. Technological vulnerabilities.
  4. Energy boundaries.
  5. Evolving ecosystems.
  6. Borderless world – fluid economies.
  7. Digital realities.
  8. Life with autonomous robots and automation.
  9. Future humanity.
  10. Advanced health and nutrition.

Categories

  1. Health reimagined.
  2. Nature restored.
  3. Societies empowered.
  4. Systems optimised.
  5. Transformational.

Scenario axes

  1. Technology: multiplier versus master.
  2. Nature: renewal versus degradation.

Scenarios

  1. A new era.
  2. On the edge.
  3. A balancing act.
  4. Decline.
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