"Zehn Thesen ergeben, die sich teilweise bereits mit Studien belegen lassen, teilweise aber nur auf jüngsten Entwicklungen basieren. Sie alle unterstützen die Hauptthese: "the network is the medium""
Megatrend 1
Oil Production will peak within ten to thirty years, requiring a shift to complete new energy methods.
Megatrend 2
The limits to traditional representative democracy are appearing because of the increasingly complexity of society, the overwhelming amount of information of real time media, and need for big money to be reelected.
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Megatrend 3
The increasing symptoms of global warming are becoming obvious in many different ways.
Megatrend 4
Unknown viruses and resistant bacteria are emerging that are untouched by existing medicines.
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Conflict between the trends of aging in the developed world and the increasing numbers of youth in the developing world creates an economic and social time bomb.
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There is an ongoing severe reduction in biodiversity throughout the world.
Megatrend 7
We are approaching a moment of "technological singularity"when runaway advances outstrip human comprehension and all our knowledge and experience becomes useless as a guidepost to the future.
Megatrend 8
The future vitality and sustainability of the economy and society will be dependent on the ability of leadership to develop cognitive complexity and continuous innovation in the capacities of the citizens.
Megatrend 9
There will be an increasing clash of civilizations and rise of terrorism.
Megatrend 10
There are three economies in churn at the same time:
a) Last stages of the Industrial Economy
b) Twenty year transition stage called the Creative Knowledge Economy.
c) The early stages of a Web/Networked Economy
Megatrend 11
National borders increasingly will be seamless.
Megatrend 12
Artificial intelligence is emerging which, when combined with biotechnology and nanotechnology, may very well transform the concept of what it means to be human.
We tend to think of libraries as collections. But the libraries of the future will be more about connections, said Harvard professor Jeffrey Schnapp on