Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide. Ten-Year Forecast. For nearly four decades, the Ten-Year Forecast program has been a leading source of foresight for a vanguard of business, government, and nonprofit organizations. It is a platform for sensing today’s latent signals, tracking their intersections to understand the ecosystem of choices, and then designing platforms for future resilience. 2014 Research Agenda The 2014 Ten-Year Forecast finds the world in an era of rapid evolution at the scale of entire ecosystems. We now know that species can evolve in a matter of generations, often "pretesting" apparently dysfunctional adaptations–only to discover that future conditions demand just this adaptation. This is what complexity theorist Stuart Kaufman calls the "inventive search for new hypotheses.
" Every project we undertake is a hypothesis about the future. Our 2014 program will target such landmark hypotheses. Deliverables Overview Ten Projects, Ten Hypotheses 2014 Map of the Decade 10YF Annual Retreat Membership. BBC - Homepage. BBC News. Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs | TED: Ideas worth spreading.