2016/2017 Trends

@nikolasfuturist

2016

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“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”

Marshall McLuhan

2007

2008

More people on earth have access to cell phones than toilets.

Out of the world's estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones.

Source: United Nations, 2015

“Our growing dependence on computers and electronic media has

made us easy target, if unwilling subjects, in one of the most bizarre social experiments of the twentieth

century.”

Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia (1994)

THUMB TRIBES

SMOMBIES

Where’s the L.O.V.E?

kakistocracy

noun Government by the least

qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

TODAY

The Neo-Conservatives are back in charge.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

$353.94bn$372.15bn

$562.19bn$62.5bn

=$2.5tn$32bn

$621.77bn

$492.45bn

“We are all in Trump World now. Trump World either is Door #1: a new

and wonderful reality show that includes all of us as willing or unwilling participants, or else it is Door #2: just a remarkable fantasy show, or Door

#3: something in between.” Yardeni Research

100 years

“The Internet has always been, and always will

be, a magic box.”

Marc Andreessen

…and it’s all gonna start getting weird.

FUTURE

Psychedelic Cultural Reality

Social Confused & Divided

Paranoid Non-linear

…with multiple realities to choose from.

2017 to 2025 will be a golden era for consumer

technologies that fundamentally change

society.

…and keep us desperately stupid, or

supremely empowered.

“I DID IT 4 TEH LULZ!”