We address ‘real-life’ challenges, anticipate and project people’s demands and seek to try out new ideas. We focus on outcome-oriented processes, including the planning of plausible outcomes (scenarios), and ultimately build a strategy to achieve the desired future.
Taking into consideration short-, medium- and long-term time horizons (the years 2025, 2035 and 2050), we survey — quantitatively as well as qualitatively — emergent trends, identify relevant commonalities and connections between them and map their trajectories over time.
To avoid oversimplification and unproductive reduction when discussing the performance of human activities, we have developed a model where selected key activities are embedded in three life domains — infrastructure, intelligence and culture.