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Social Futurist Predicts Change for 2012

Added 14 December 2011 View full list    Print version    
De-Gadgetisation, New Frugalism, Mass Collaboration, Cultures of Innovation, Privacy and Lifestyle Logging, and Technology Refuseniks.

These are among 12 social shifts in technology and culture for 2012 predicted by Social Futurist, Mal Fletcher.

Widely broadcast and published, Mal Fletcher has researched social trends for two decades. He is the founder/director of Next Wave International and leads the London-based Think Tank, 2020Plus.

He says: “My interest in the future is not merely in its technological, economic or political dimensions. I’m interested in what they might mean for people – in families, communities, companies and groups of all kinds.”

The editorial was made available to major press and media figures in the UK and in other parts of the world. If you represent a publication that may want to reproduce all or part of this editorial, please email: media@2020plus.net.


(For the full editorial on this site, click here.)

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