Monthly Archives: December 2007

2008 Trends

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I’m just putting the finishing touches to my trend report for 2008. I keep changing my mind about the list, most recently dropping ‘Intimacy’ for ‘Something for nothing’ (i.e. ‘Free’). I’m also not 100% convinced about ‘Eco-Exhaustion’ but we’ll see. Anyway, here’s the current list.

1. Karma Capitalism
2. Rhythm & Balance
3. Making things
4. Something for nothing
5. Industrial provenance
6. Robotics
7. Data visualisation
8. Reality mining
9. Eco-exhaustion
10. Fantasy & escape

Seeing that 2007 is almost gone I thought I’d share a soft copy of my 2007 trend report with anyone that wants it. In other words it’s free – which brings us nicely back to the 2008 trend report and something for nothing don’t you think?

If you want it it’s here…

http://www.nowandnext.com/PDF/2007_complete_lores.pdf (3 mb)

Future Files (One Last time)

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This is the last post for my book “Future Files” for 2007 because it’s now grown up and gone out into the big wide world by itself. We now have publishing deals in the UK (April ’08 launch most probably), the US (a bit later in ’08), Canada, India, China and a bunch of other places too.

One thing I have done for the new versions is add a list of the 5 most important trends for the next 50 years upfront and I’ve also added a list of 5 things that won’t change at all over the next 50 years.

Remember you can still download the whole of chapter one for free from futuretrendsbook.com although I am in the process of slightly tweaking chapter one too.