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未来大趋势

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2000年,全球陷入对“千年虫”电脑故障的恐慌之中,人们普遍预期它将导致全球经济危机。然而,没有在一夜之间陷入混乱的人类,反而逐渐陷入之后二十年的经济波动、生态焦虑和部落主义中,这些变化均是在新全球化和数字化文明的背景下发生的。

在这场变革中,高级趋势观察家玛丽安·萨尔兹曼的预测逐渐变为现实。她揭露了人类从千禧年转折点到大流行时代的生命轨迹:混乱和分离成为新常态、公平和正义问题越来越受到关注、能源的可持续性发展和环境保护问题成为全球焦点、呼吸空间变成了地球生物最大的奢侈品、生活和工作方式的数字化愈发显著、人类社会向多元化、开放和包容发展的同时也面临着新的矛盾和挑战。

在《未来十大趋势》中,萨尔兹曼继续她的预测:未来的工作模式将是一个人管理一堆机器人,科学家将研发出可吞噬塑料的“超级酶”,全球科技公司和医疗卫生部门将合力构建传染疾病预警系统,新一代的3D打印机将能生产出复杂的实物产品,未来木头可以取代钢铁、混凝土、塑料甚至电子产品……

萨尔兹曼游走于不同的技术和时间之间,将商业、生活、消费、家庭及娱乐等元素相互连接,为我们解读十五年之后的新世界提供了前瞻性的洞察。

289 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2024

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Marian Salzman

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Marian Salzman has worked at the leading edge of advertising, public relations, and technology for more than three decades. Since co-founding the world’s first online market research company, she has served as a communications executive at companies in the United States and Europe. Her annual forecasting report on the coming year’s trends, released each November, garners global media attention. A graduate of Brown University and the recipient of numerous awards, Marian Salzman lives in Connecticut and Switzerland.

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137 reviews9 followers
May 18, 2022
Enjoyed this. Got a bit ahead of her skis perhaps politically to alienate a good chunk of her reader base, but generally I found her prognostications to be grounded in well supported facts.
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4 reviews1 follower
May 24, 2022
Given that most future insight and prediction media is based on unrealistic utopian technological advances, it is a nice reset diving into a future of all practical advances, not just technical. However, as we evolve at a rapid pace, the author understands that technology in 15-18 years from now will introduce more ideals, reduce waste and explore a slower imagination of life. The author also points out historical facts to which drives our inevitable futuristic boundaries. I wouldn’t say the author is a conspiracy theorist with their parallels of Y2K and the pandemic, however, it was an eye opening description of how our past, while not understood then, was shaping every aspect of our current day. If only we knew then, maybe we wouldn’t be in our current situation, or even if so, could we have done something to improve on it? The trends of the next decade seem plausible, if not downright spoiler, and that isn’t something to be a shame of. Too often we see and hear about ultra futuristic trends, the author gave a realistic and positive approach to where we can eventually see ourselves. Very good insight, very good read/listen.
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331 reviews
January 9, 2023
Ριψοκίνδυνες προβλέψεις μέσα σε ένα πολύ ρευστό παγκόσμιο σκηνικό, αλλά ωραία στατιστικά στοιχεία. Και, ναι, το μέλλον δεν είναι πια αισιόδοξο.
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494 reviews423 followers
April 14, 2023
i'm not sure what i expected getting into this, but it just wasn't for me. absolutely no shade to the author, who obviously had to spend a while at the top qualifying themselves so people trust them, but i found that even when i got through that i didn't enjoy reading it. DNF
Profile Image for Pavel Annenkov.
443 reviews141 followers
December 30, 2022
Прокатиться на росте мощного тренда - это мечта каждого предпринимателя. Как говорится, «прибой поднимает все лодки». И иногда для успеха компании нужно, просто открыв свой бизнес, попасть в начало большого тренда. Эта книга о том, как находить такие тренды.

О ЧЕМ КНИГА:
Совсем свежая книга, вышедшая в мае 2022. Автор называет свою книгу "гидом путешественника во времени". Сальзман занимается анализом трендов уже несколько десятилетий, работала и делала проекты в Европе и США и поэтому к её мнению можно прислушаться. Хорошо, что в своей работе она делает не очень далекие прогнозы, а всего лишь до 2038 года)

ГЛАВНАЯ МЫСЛЬ КНИГИ:
Каждый тренд может быть одновременно, как добром, так и злом для вашего бизнеса и вас лично. Важно понимать их суть, чтобы поставить себе на службу.

ЗАЧЕМ ЧИТАТЬ ЭТУ КНИГУ?
Чтобы увидеть возможности для развития своего бизнеса на волне мощных трендов, лучше понять, что происходит в мире сейчас и подготовиться к изменениям в большинстве областей своей жизни.

МЫСЛИ И ВЫВОДЫ ИЗ КНИГИ:
- У каждого сильного тренда есть такой же мощный контртренд. Например, люди всё больше отделяются друг от друга(удаленная работа, "информационный пузырь" у каждого свой), но при этом хотят больше общаться друг с другом и поэтому есть сильный тренд на создание сообществ.

- Сейчас мы наблюдаем важное последствие коронавируса. Может быть впервые за свою жизнь, сидя в изоляции, большинство людей задали себе вопросы - "Устраивает ли меня моя жизнь?", "У меня такие отношения, которые я хотел?" и другие большие вопросы. Сейчас эти люди продолжают меняться и искать ответы на эти вопросы.

- В мире фейковых новостей и фактов от нас требуется еще больше разбираться во всём самим, чтобы составить свое собственное мнение. Запрос на качественное знание и общение будет расти. Это происходит у людей даже неосознанно.

- Каждый живет в своем личном "информационном пузыре" и у многих думающих людей есть желание из него вырваться.

- Сильный вопрос - "Технологии это больше зло или добро?" Здесь зависит от того, насколько хорошо вы в них разобрались и смогли ли поставить себе на службу. Инь и янь.

- «This divide has tremendous implications for not only access to information but also the ability to influence. Those with full access to these digital tools can outcommunicate those without.»

- Понравился глагол "outcommunicate". Создавая больше контента можно просто "переговорить" конкурентов)

- Климатическая повестка очень мощная. И это не шутки. Изменения климата будут влиять вдолгую в том числе и на бизнес. Всё взаимосвязано. Будут появляться новые бизнес-модели и приходить в упадок старые. Результат мы увидим не скоро, но уже к 2038 году появятся огромные компании, которых мы даже еще не видим сейчас.

- Одна из главных причин, почему люди будут проводить больше времени в метавселенных, в том, что у вас там больше чувства контроля над миром.

- «In an era when a great deal of wealth has been generated, luxury has moved away from things and toward experiences.»

- «Old and outdated idea of luxury was defined by how rich you were, where you lived, what car you drove and what fashion brands you wore,” the new luxury is “the freedom of time.»

- «Like all luxuries, however, time is not something everyone can afford, as we will explore next. You can’t afford to buy time if you are struggling to make ends meet.»

- «Wealth is measured by the security and freedom it affords: the security of knowing you can handle (financially, at least) whatever life throws at you and the freedom to do things you find fulfilling. As far as I’m concerned, Henry David Thoreau got it right when he defined wealth as “the ability to fully experience life.»

- В нашем мире самая большая роскошь - это свободное время.

- Мы можем достаточно четко определить, что такое бедность, но измерить богатство очень сложно.

- Teddy Roosevelt wisely noted, “Comparison is the thief of joy."

- "Многие люди очень бедны, ведь деньги - это всё что у них есть."

ЧТО Я БУДУ ПРИМЕНЯТЬ:
- Для каждого тренда буду всегда искать и анализировать контртренд. Всё в мире инь и янь.

ЕЩЕ НА ЭТУ ТЕМУ:
Кевин Келли "Неизбежно: 12 технологических трендов, которые определяют наше будущее"

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725 reviews15 followers
March 23, 2023
Don't be fooled by the low rating for this book. Many of the negative reviews are from butthurt right-wing conservatives.

This book is divided into 4 parts: The Big Picture, How We Live, Who We Are and What's Next?.

The first 3 parts actually look at current trends from the turn of the millennium to the present while only the final part looks towards the future with 2038 being the endpoint. The present-day trends are peppered with 2038 predictions called "On The Radar".

Marian takes an interesting approach by associating current trends with the biggest disruption of our generation, the Covid-19 pandemic. She believes that technology, climate and the pandemic will shape the future.

She suggests the following 10 Megatrends:
1. Climate Change
2. Increasing chaos and instability
3. Lack of leadership from dominant nation-states like the US/China
4. Growing need for escape strategies
5. Creation of new boundaries as traditional absolutes break down
6. Emphasis on going small to deal with chaos and change
7. Breathing space becoming a luxury
8. A drive to achieve equity to combat inequality
9. Identity no longer immutable
10. Self and personalization becoming the new center
1,785 reviews9 followers
September 2, 2023
Marian Salzman had a huge success with her book Megatrends. More than 20 years later, he writes this second book, which I really recommend reading.

The book is divided into three parts: what happened in the last 20 years, what is happening now, and what he estimates could happen between now and 2038 (the reasons why he chooses that date are interesting).

I think there are trends that we may not like but that are happening: a greater number of sexual “identities”, the change in the family model, our greater coexistence with machines, the change in the ways of working and others.

The three things that will affect the new trends will be climate change, technology and post-COVID changes in the way of working.

What awaits us? Living with robots instead of humans? Single-person houses? The extension not because of a catastrophic event but because we stopped reproducing? A powerful Africa?….

To read.
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161 reviews25 followers
September 27, 2023
While I believe that we can see the future in the present, the book stayed in the current issues a bit too long. When I got to the actual prediction of the future megatrends, I was surprised how it was only the very end of the book. Interesting read but not the new insights and information I was looking for.
Profile Image for Daniel.
103 reviews3 followers
August 31, 2022
Interesting read. Thought provoking and insightful.
Profile Image for Carol.
546 reviews7 followers
October 28, 2022
Felt more like a description of the present than our possible futures.
335 reviews
November 5, 2023
Good presentation for dypsonian attitude towards the future. Would prefer more balanced view. Solid book for academic classroom.
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699 reviews105 followers
November 4, 2022
There are many many trends, and they are mostly bad. The author hedged her bets in some areas. In the year 2038:

1. There will be 2 superpowers, US and China. But neither is going to lead
2. Climate change will have made lots of low lying areas uninhabitable. Poor countries will be much more affected even though they contributed far less to it.
3. Most countries will be ageing except for Africa.
4. Wealth inequality will be even more extreme.
5. Universal basic income will be ubiquitous.
6. Robots will be doing lots of manual labor.
7. We will focus on the Self even more.
8. Brain implants and artificial limbs will help both the disabled and the healthy and wealthy. Brains will be uploaded to the internet.
9. More grassroots organisations will spring up, but we will be more alone at the same time.
10. Blockchain currency will either decrease the power of governments to collect taxes, or it will implode.
11. We will be much more accepting of gender fluidity and alternative family structures.

I must say I got slightly confused by the many predictions, and sometimes the hedging.
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August 20, 2022
I'm not sure how to rate this one. I found it absolutely fascinating. The future freaks me out.
Profile Image for Jess.
1,111 reviews
September 27, 2022
Everything is terrible. This has a liberal bias. I found it to be fairly reasonable in its predictions.
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