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We identify future market opportunities and challenges in digital and virtual domains through research, analysis, and exploratory fiction.
We make sense of tomorrow, today.
Our work considers the challenges and opportunities that will emerge when new technology transforms society. We explore the space where the real and virtual environments converge.
Opportunity
The Virtual Economy - An exploratory deepdive
The Virtual Economy is a system of sophisticated platforms, fledgling marketplaces, skilled nixers, volatile assets, and ambitious pioneers that exist uniquely in virtual environments.
Opportunity
The Virtual Economy Technology Radar - An interactive map
This interactive visualisation features 54 key emerging technologies underpinning the Virtual Economy - their current capabilities, level of activity, likely trajectory, and research ecosystem.
Challenge
Social Mobility in the Digital Age - How technology changes the dynamics of social mobility
This project explores the ways in which technology is constraining, facilitating and exacerbating issues with social mobility in developed capitalist democracies.
Insights
See the latestApr 4 2024
Lewis Packwood
CultureGamingTechnologyThe future of game engines
The game engines Unity and Unreal may be responsible for the creation of over half of video games released today, not to mention a disproportionate number of top titles. What does their future—and that of gaming overall—look like as moods change, and AI weaves into the industry?
Read moreMar 21 2024
Aurore Geraud
ForesightTechnologyMarketsTech vs. Tech: Microgravity reactors vs. 3D bioprinting ... in space!
As space exploration advances, biotechnology is a promising frontier, notably for matters of life support, but also for more efficiently leveraging resources in space environments.
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