The 2014 Update Global MegatrendsDr Stefan Hajkowicz | Principal Scientist
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Different Types of Futures
Source: Voros (2003) adapted this diagram from Hancock and Bezold (1994) in the Healthcare Forum Journal
Now Probable
Plausible
Possible
The Future
More Than ForecastingDifference Between Actual and Forecast Oil Prices (US Govt Dept of Energy)
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More from lessThe opportunities and risks stemming
from resource scarcity and supply-demand imbalances
Going, going, … gone? A window of opportunity to protect habitats, biodiversity and the global
climate
The silk highwayThe growth of emerging economies,
globalisation, urbanisation and human mobility
Forever youngAn ageing population, longer
lifespans, rising healthcare expenditure and retirement
pressures
Digital immersionLife deeper in the information era
with technology, connectivity, data volumes and digital natives
on the rise
Great expectationsThe all important and personalised experience-factor in a world with
limitless choice
Megatrends The 2014 Revision
Why a Venn Diagram?Each area of overlap tells a unique story about the future
Ice Cream
Car TripChildren
Use activity books and
games
Take normal care
Effective strategy not yet identified
by humankind
Use serviettes
Does the strategy perform in most/all areas of overlap?
Innovation, Productivity and ProsperityWe need new & bigger ideas to refuel the economy
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Data source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 5204.0 Australian System of National Accounts
Read “The Great Stagnation – How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better“ by Tyler Cowen
1. More From Less
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- Neil Armstrong
Data source: United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization
More From LessFood demand, supply and prices
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More From LessFood Prices, Food Security and Stability
IMAGE AND DATA SOURCE: Marco Lagi, Karla Z. Bertrand, Yaneer Bar-Yam (2011) The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East. Physics and Society.
Global energy demand one-third.
Fossil fuel share from 82% to 76%.
Low carbon sources (renewables, nuclear...) are 40% of growth
Over 50% of net-increase in electricity generation from renewables
Growth led by China this decade but shifts to India, Southeast Asia and Middle East post 2020.
Biofuel use triples from 1.3 million barrels/day to 4.1 million barrels/day
More From LessWorld Energy Demand, Headline Statistics Now to 2035
Data source: International Energy Agency, 2013
More From LessDeclining Energy Intensity in Australia, All Industries
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-122,300
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More money from less energy due to technology innovation & growth in services.
Data source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Energy Account
The service sector of the economy needs only one-tenth of the energy used by other sectors to make $1 million.
More From LessDeclining Gold Ore Grade – We’ve dug up all the good stuff
Data Source: United Nations Environment Program 2011, Metal Recycling Report
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More From LessMining above the ground
One tonne of ore body yields 1-5 grams of gold
One tonne of old computer circuits yields
250 grams of gold.
Data Source: CSIRO News, Anna Littleboy, March 28 2014. How to create wealth from waste. Images CSIRO.
More From LessExtent of Mineral Resources in Emerging Economies
Data Source: United States Geological Survey (2012)
More From LessTransition to knowledge exports – Pittsburgh’s story from selling ingots to selling ideas
Source: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society; Treado (2009)
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2. Going, Going … Gone?
The fate of biological diversity for the next 10 million years will almost certainly be determined during the next 50–100 years by the activities of a single species.
Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle, PNAS 2008.
Going, Going… Gone?
Going, Going … Gone?
Data Source: Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, Secretariat on the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2010
Going, Going … Gone?The Red List
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Data Source: Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, Secretariat on the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2010
Red List Extinction Risk Index
1 = No concern
0 = Extinct
Going, Going… Gone?Arctic Sea Ice
Data Source: Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, Secretariat on the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2010
Data source: Bureau of Meteorology
Going, Going, … Gone?Rising Temperatures
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Coral area is shrinking by 0.5% per year.
Only 50% of original coral area remains today.
Culprits are tropical cyclones (48%), crown of thorns starfish (42%), coral bleaching (10%) plus other factors.
Without these 3 things it would be growing by 2.85% per year.
Image Source: Microsoft Clipart, Data Source: De’ath, G, KE Fabricius, H Sweatman, and M Puotinen, 2012. The 27–year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Going, Going, … Gone?The Great Barrier Reef
Going, Going ... Gone? Staying Put
Data Source: Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, Secretariat on the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2010
3. The Silk Highway
The Silk HighwayA Shifting World Economy
Source: Quah, 2011; Global Policy
The Silk HighwayA Recent Phenomenon - The Population Explosion
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The vast bulk of new arrivals are in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Europe shrinks after 2050.
US Govtcensus.gov
Source: World Bank Indicators
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Income GrowthIt’s not just more people, it’s more people with greater buying power
The Silk HighwayMaking Cities in 20 Years What Took Europe 400 Years
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Statistic derived from analysis of the United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects, The 2007 Revision Population Database
Change in ChinaFrom the early 1990s to the late 2000s China changed it’s share of the world’s ...
Champagne imports from 0.1% to 0.3%
Gross Domestic Product from 3.5% to 11.4%
Steel production from 12.4% to 38.8%
Poor people living on less than US$1.25 per day from 37.6% to 15.1%
Trademarks (held by residents) from 5.9% to 31.7%
Source: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
The Silk HighwayAn Economy in Transition
Source: The Reserve Bank of Australia
The Silk HighwayExpenditure on Research and Development in China
Source: OECD
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The Silk HighwayWill India pick up the slack?
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The Silk HighwayRegional Activity - Global Jet Travel
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Data Source: Boeing Current Market Outlook
The silk HighwayThe Offshoring Trend
Data Source: BCG, OECD, NASSCOM
The silk HighwayThe Offshoring Trend
In Australia they cost $10,000 to $20,000 per month
Data source: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation
The Silk HighwayEmerging Food Markets, can’t sell garlic to China but can sell fish, tropical fruit ...
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4. Forever YoungAs you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Forever YoungThe Ageing Population – Australia
Data Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Today we’re some 14% over 65 yrs old
It will be 25% by 2050
Forever YoungThe Ageing Population in Japan
By 2050 Japan’s population will be 40% over 70 years old
Forever YoungRetirement Savings Gap – Tapered Retirement
Source: Rice Warner
Forever YoungThe Rise of Chronic Illness
In 2002 59% of deaths worldwide were from non-communicable illness.
It will be 69% in 2030.
Source: Mathers and Loncar, 2006.
Source: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Forever YoungDiabetes and Overweight Projections
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Data Source: World Masters Association
Forever YoungWanting to Stay Active and Engaged
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Aalborg, Aarhus & Herning Denmark
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Forever YoungRising Healthcare Expenditure
Source: CSIRO DPAS Flagship
Today we spend 20 percent of all
government taxes in Australia on
healthcare.
By the year 2043 it will be 40 percent.
Forever YoungRising Healthcare Expenditure
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Source: ACE–Prevention: Deakin University and University of Queensland.
Forever YoungLonger LifespansAverage today is currently 79.9 years for a boy and 84.3 years for a girl. Will exceed 100 years later this century at current linear trend.
Regenerative MedicineGenetic DiagnosticsOrgan Printing
Diabetes Type II
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
5. Digital Immersion
The number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit, at the same
cost, doubles every 1.5 years.
Data source: Moore’s Law, Moore (1965) Electronica, Vol 38Image source: Microsoft clipart
Digital ImmersionMoore’s Law
Digital ImmersionThe falling cost of sequencing a human genome
2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013$0
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Data Source: National Human Genome Research Institute, Sequencing Costs
Digital ImmersionRay Kurzweil and The Second Half of the Chessboard
Creative Commons Photo by Michael Lutch. - Photo by Michael Lutch. Courtesy of Kurzweil Technologies, Incorporated.
Digital ImmersionArtificial Intelligence & Machine Learning The Story of IBM’s Computer Watson on Jeopardy
Source: D.A. Ferrucci - IBM Journal of Research and Development
Clue (category explorers): On hearing of the discovery of George Mallory’s body, he told reporters he still thinks he was first.
Answer: Who is “Sir Edmund Hillary”
Digital ImmersionWatson on Jeopardy
Source: D.A. Ferrucci - IBM Journal of Research and Development
Ken Jennings: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords”
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Automation Outside the Factory
Image Source: Wikipedia Commons
500,000 kms accident freeLaws in Nevada, Florida, California, and Michigan
Digital ImmersionEmergent Properties of Networks
Source: Wikipedia Commons (Opte Project) and Evans, D., The Internet of Things: How the Next Evolution of the Internet is Changing Everything, 2011, CISCO.
The number of devices connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on Earth in 2010.
By 2020, this ratio is predicted to increase to almost 7:1.
From 6 to 3 Degrees of SeparationThe New World of Connectivity
Image source: Microsoft Clipart
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Every day 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created; 90% of the data available today was created in the last two years (IBM).
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Mobile Phones in Kerala, India between 1997 - 2001Robert Jensen, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Reduction in price dispersion Elimination of waste Consumer and producer welfare improved
The Changing Job MarketInsights from the United States of America
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6. Great ExpectationsNow, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.
- Charles Dickens
Great ExpectationsMaslow’s Hierarchy
Esteem – confidence, achievement, respect of others, respect by others
Love and belonging – Friendships, family, partnering
Safety – Shelter, personal security, productive employment, health, property
Physiological Needs – Eating, Sleeping, Breathing, Drinking
Self
Actualization -
Morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem
solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts
Great ExpectationsUtility - A non-linear relationship
Beers (schooners)
Happiness (utility)
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More likely
Great Expectations The rise (and continued rise) of the experience economy
Source: Pine, BJ and Gilmore, JH (1998) Welcome to the experience economy. Harvard Business Review
Basic Expectations
24% < US$1.25/day (47% in 1990)
33% of people in urban slums
15.5 percent of the world’s population (1 billion) hungry
United Nations, 2012
Thank youDr Stefan Hajkowicz
Principal Scientist
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