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We're a foresight company.

We identify future market opportunities and challenges in digital and virtual domains through research, analysis, and exploratory fiction.

We make sense of tomorrow, today.


Our work considers the challenges and opportunities that will emerge when new technology transforms society. We explore the space where the real and virtual environments converge.

Opportunity

The Virtual Economy - An exploratory deepdive

The Virtual Economy is a system of sophisticated platforms, fledgling marketplaces, skilled nixers, volatile assets, and ambitious pioneers that exist uniquely in virtual environments.

Opportunity

The Virtual Economy Technology Radar - An interactive map

This interactive visualisation features 54 key emerging technologies underpinning the Virtual Economy - their current capabilities, level of activity, likely trajectory, and research ecosystem. 

Challenge

Social Mobility in the Digital Age - How technology changes the dynamics of social mobility

This project explores the ways in which technology is constraining, facilitating and exacerbating issues with social mobility in developed capitalist democracies.

Our team

We are an interdisciplinary team of economists, journalists, scientists and researchers interested in the consequences of technological and societal change.

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