Demos 2050
The Future of Everything
Demos has undertaken futures work with a wide range of organisations – helping groups from trade unions to international security bodies plan ahead.
- Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project is the third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next decade and a half to influence world events. Mindful that there are many possible "futures," our report offers a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss. 30th June 2006 | NIC website
- Centre for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition he RAND Pardee Center pursues ambitious objectives: to improve our ability to think about the longer-range future--from 35 to as far as 200 years ahead--and to develop new methods of analyzing potential long-range, global effects of today's policy options in order to design sound policies that are sensitive to those effects. 30th June 2006 | Rand website
- WorldChanging WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together. 30th June 2006 | WorldChanging website
- Shell Global Scenarios Shell's global scenarios to 2025. 30th June 2006 | pdf of exec summary
- Shaping Tomorrow Shaping Tomorrow helps people and organisations better anticipate and respond to world trends. 30th June 2006 | Shaping Tomorrow website
- In Pursuit of the Future A three-year research project under the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Professorial Fellowship Scheme. 30th June 2006 | ESRC project page
- Global Business Network As a worldwide membership organization and scenario and strategy consultancy, GBN engages in a collaborative exploration of the future, discovering the frontiers of knowledge and creating innovative tools for strategic action and adaptive advantage. GBN chairman Peter Schwartz is the guru of scenario planning. 30th June 2006 | GBN Website
- Future Services Network - 'putting consumers at the heart of public service reform'... The Journey to the Interface project The Future Services Network is a coalition of the CBI, ACEVO and the NCC, based on the following 6 principles: 1. The public needs a voice in public services 2. We need flexible public services that respond to people’s needs 3. Many services could be delivered in new ways, such as by voluntary organisations or private companies 4. People need more of a choice in public services 5. Public services need to focus on customer satisfaction 6. Motivated staff make for better public services 26th June 2006