Policy Horizons’ Director General, Kristel Van der Elst, explores significant areas of change, and how the potential outcomes of those changes may alter our strategic landscape and systems.
This video tackles the future of social connection along with three changes and their policy implications: The automation of social connections, our real connections in virtual worlds, and the deepening of social surveillance.
Our manager of foresight, Marcus Ballinger, examines how emerging technologies are shifting value in the next digital economy by breaking four scarcities associated with specific kinds of human activities.
In this video, we discuss how the convergence of digital technologies and biological systems is becoming a part of our future, and how it may impact our lives. The information provided in this video is ...
How are our sense-making processes evolving? Here are four changes that affect the way in which we think, make decisions and behave.
April 23, 2021. Armine Yalnizyan explores the impact of digital technologies on the economy.
March 3, 2021. Prateeksha Singh shared her thoughts on the importance of plurality and equity in foresight.
February 24, 2021. Kristel Van der Elst presents an overview of Policy Horizons’ COVID-19 foresight work—introducing some forces driving change and disruption, and highlighting medium-term shifts that challenge our policy assumptions and tools.
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