FUTURE TRENDS FORUM

Megatrends 2022

Which innovation trends will have impact on society in the medium term?

The Future Trends Forum analyzes the present to draw an accurate picture of the future, detecting the innovation trends that will change our technology, business models and society. What innovation trends will have impact on society in the medium term, in the next two, four or six years?

Their answer has been these Megatrends, which aim to anticipate the answers to the main questions about the future and help us steer our actions and strategies.

The 10 Megatrends of 2022 are below, a global list of topics that our experts will be analyzing in greater depth over the course of 2022.

As a foretaste the global analysis, there is one single headline that threads together all the subjects analyzed: “The future has arrived, and the only constant is change”.

Which innovation trends will have impact on society in the medium term?

1.- TECHNOLOGY

Human connections in an increasingly virtual world

Technology is disrupting human relations at a faster pace in recent years, but it is only the spearhead of a hyperconnected world, in which we can enrich our relationships, bring out the best in ourselves and fight against inequality. How will it develop? What will be the next frontier of digitization?

2.- TECHNOLOGY

Advanced Artificial Intelligence and its consequences for people

The advance of Artificial Intelligence is unstoppable. Understanding the advantages of its application in our daily lives, understanding its disadvantages and unearthing our preset prejudices is complicated but necessary in order to move forward. Furthermore, once the technological barriers have been overcome, we must assess how to use them in a way that will have positive impact on society.

Metaverse, blockchain and cybersecurity

The Metaverse is a new iteration of the Internet that opens up an endless world of possibilities, but at the same time raises many questions about cybersecurity, digital identity, regulation, business relations, ways of working, privacy, etc. In just a few years, the answers to these questions will become clearer.

4.- MOBILITY

Where is the automation of public and private transportation headed?

Technology is already prepared for self-driving cars and cities are beginning to prepare their streets to use autonomous vehicles as public transport.

5.- SCIENCE

Shaping the human microbiome, a gateway to curing disease

The scientific community is focusing on the intestinal microbiome, which is hailed as a second DNA with the ability to changing based on external factors. There are scientists who claim that it carries much more weight than our genetics in the development of all kinds of diseases and, therefore, in the fight against them. Will knowledge of the microbiome change medicine as we know it now?

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6.- WORK

The potential of technology

Technology, flexibility and more trained and connected professionals are causing changes in the way we work.

7.- EDUCATION

New paradigm in education

65% of the jobs that today’s children will have in the future do not yet exist. Therefore, educational models are increasingly tending to be more liquid, flexible and skill-enhancing. Where is the new paradigm of education headed?

8.- SUSTAINABILITY

Green transition and business transformation

There are critical times in the energy transition and the fight against climate change. Social mobilization is leading to more aware and green companies. A necessary commitment to achieve the desired goal of a zero-emissions world.

9.- AGING

Aging in the short-term: life expectancy vs. quality of life

The number of elderly people is increasing at a faster rate than the number of new births. The development of technology and health sciences is allowing us to achieve greater longevity in better health conditions. What are the opportunities of longevity coupled to better quality of life?

10.- SOCIAL NETWORKS

Ethics in social networks and their power to influence and divide communities

Social platforms are coming of age, refining ethics-related matters that had not been considered until now. And in turn, users will have to take responsibility for the use we make of them, to promote their positive and responsible use as tools for change on a global scale.

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