IN SPOTLIGHT
Four scenarios on the future of AI in the workplace
AI’s rapid rise in the workplace is opening up new possibilities—some optimistic, others unsettling. We explore how AI could alter job roles, workplace dynamics, and society at large through four different scenarios.
Futures Platform has joined G-Cloud 13 Digital Marketplace as a service supplier
Futures Platform, an all-in-one collaborative digital solution for strategic foresight work, is thrilled to announce that the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has accepted us as a service supplier on their G-Cloud 13 Digital Marketplace.
The Future of Tax in the Metaverse
Through a series of workshops with three national tax authorities, we explored the key opportunities and risks the metaverse presents to the future of taxation.
Counterfeiting: A Growing Threat to the Future of Global Trade
With the steep rise in volumes of counterfeit consumer goods entering the global marketplace, brands, retailers, and governments are facing new challenges.
Public Trust in Government: One More Covid-19 Casualty
Poor institutional performance, slow response to the global agenda, and increasing economic inequalities are among the main drivers causing a global decline in trust in public authorities and political leaders.
Why Foresight Is Needed in the Public Leadership Space
In public Organisations or any business, it is so easy to get caught up in the hamster wheel of busyness. The practice of Strategic Foresight is a way of stepping out of the hamster wheel and re-igniting your capacity to shape the future.
Will We Accept Social Ranking Systems?
China is planning to launch a Social Credit Score (SCS) system that ranks its 1.3 billion residents according their trustworthiness by 2020. It has been called as a futuristic version of Big Brother as it uses large variety of data to monitor and evaluate its citizens’ behaviour. How would you feel if your trustworthiness was publicly measured with a single algorithm-based score?