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TOMORROW'S SKILLS

Which skills will be most important for living in the future and how should we mitigate for the growing skills gap?

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CLIMATE PROSPECTION

How do we address climate change now?

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TRANSPORTATION OUTLOOK

How will we transport ourselves and goods in the future and at what risk?

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ENERGY FUTURES

Is energy transition moving fast enough to avert disaster?

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FUTURE OF REALITY TECHNOLOGIES

How will reality technologies change human behavior?

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What's next (from 711,063 total forecasts):

Strong adoption of 5G in the coming years will take worldwide connections to 3.6bn in 2025.
IBM's achievement still comes amid a disastrous global semiconductor shortage that may not fully recover until 2023.
Later this decade, Honda will introduce its e: Architecture electric car platform, which will be used first for cars coming to the US market and later for other world markets.
Saudi Arabia is diversifying its economy and will become significantly less dependent on oil exports in the coming years.
The outcomes in the coming years could reshape how the global internet works and how new technologies are used, with people having access to different content, digital services or online freedoms based on where they are.
Fashion may not have decades to come around: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental body of the United Nations, has stated that to avoid climate catastrophe, global emissions must be halved by 2030.
The Threat Assessment begins to address the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that are bedeviling the decentralized United States but proving easier to surmount for the autocratically centralized China amid its push to replace the United States as the dominant power on earth by 2050.
As vaccines begin to roll out across the world, South Africa, too, has begun to plan for post-pandemic normalcy, with an ambitious aim of inoculating the majority of its citizens by the end of 2021.
The changing nature of the U.S.-China relationship is just as essential as the changing global context to understanding the risks of bilateral competition and conflict in the coming years.
With no concrete plans for new long-term storage facilities in the UK and declining UK Continental Shelf, it could point to a greater LNG dependency in the coming years.
Decarbonising heat will be critical to global emissions reduction efforts in the coming years.
Decarbonising heat will be essential for global emissions reduction efforts in the coming years.
Significant resources will need to be mobilised in the coming years to reverse the worldwide effects of COVID-19, and Latin America cannot be left out.
At the end of the day, dividends of lockdown-driven repatriation will inevitably diminish as Chinese luxury-good consumers begin to travel again in 2022 or 2023.
The European Union's approach to China will change dramatically in the coming years if European decision-makers can start to tell the difference between corporate interests and national interests.
Though vaccinations began in late 2020, they will have a bigger impact in 2021 and will push medical manufacturing and the world toward a new normal.
Regulators will be focused on supervisory stress testing and banks' own internal stress testing in late 2020 and 2021 as a means of testing the asset quality of banks and understanding capital vulnerabilities.
One of the largest ten threats to the world in the coming years was identified to be that of cyberattacks and data fraud due to a sustained shift in working patterns.
General Mills, which announced that by the end of 2022, 75 to 80% of the eggs it purchases everywhere in the world will come from cage-free chickens.
The world will still need oil in 2021 and 2022, and for years to come, but it will need less and less of it.
Working with Siemens and utilising its global expertise in Digital Twin and simulation technologies will play a pivotal role in Britishvolt achieving its tight deadlines to begin producing batteries, at scale, by the end of 2023.
Working with Siemens and using its global expertise in Digital Twin and simulation technologies will play a pivotal role in Britishvolt achieving its tight deadlines to begin producing world-class batteries, at scale, by the end of 2023.
The coming years will show the worrying ripple effects of interruptions to cancer care during the global pandemic.
The forecast for 2021 and 2022 EIA forecasts that some mandatory and voluntary travel restrictions will still be in place in the first half of 2021 amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases as of late-2020, although the level of restrictions and their duration is highly uncertain.
The world will rebalance during the coming years, and fake money and fake assets will suffer.

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