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Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: January

Welcome to the Futures 100 Innovators, our annual longlist of global innovators and disruptors creating the future across 10 sectors.

Big Ideas

Web Summit Lisbon 2023: The Future of the Creator Economy, Podcasts and Gaming

Influencers, strategists and businesses gathered at the world’s largest tech conference in search of solutions to cut through the noise in a satura...

Technology : Influencer Marketing : Gaming

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Food

The post-Covid rush to be out, meet people and eat out has faded, dampened by rising living costs and global financial turmoil, which is set to con...

Food : Sustainability : Technology

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Retail

Retail is settling into a post-Covid landscape in which consumers frequently welcome brands into their homes, exploring products, consuming content...

Retail : Luxury : Fashion

Viewpoints

Elevating Travel Narratives

AboundStudio’s founder James Huntly discusses design’s role in creating meaningful brand narratives that reflect travellers’ changing values and de...

Travel : Design : Hospitality

Micro Trends

Crypto Dining Clubs

Web3 communities are using technologies such as blockchain and DAOs to encourage people to break bread together – both online and offline.

Food : Drink : Technology

Micro Trends

Game-Fi Rising

Brands are using game-based finance to create new retail opportunities, rewarding game play loops and building a greater sense of in-game status.

Gaming : Finance : Technology

Viewpoints

Scents and Scent-ability

Scent is set to change the nature of health, wellbeing and self-care, according to Firmenich’s chief consumer and innovation officer, Matteo Magnani.

Beauty : Sustainability : Health And Wellness

Viewpoints

How Medicine can Learn from Gaming

Clinical learning experiences through simulation have gained momentum and virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a new, powerful training tool for sur...

Health & Wellness : Technology : Gaming

Markets

Gastro Gaming Market

Joining forces with video game publishers, food and drink brands are turning to gaming to offer tastes, skins and experiences that are transcending...

Food & Drink : Gaming : Food

Big Ideas

Envisioning Tomorrows: Dubai Future Forum 2023

Described as the world’s largest gathering of futurists, Dubai Future Forum envisaged an array of futures, all focused on compassion, care and coll...

Dubai Futures Forum : Event : Tomorrow's Leadership

Design Directions

Synth-aesthetic Evolution

From dystopia to delight, an AI-aesthetic Revolution is transforming how we perceive and embrace artificial intelligence.

Design : AI : Artificial Intelligence

Micro Trends

Digital Fragrances

Our sense of smell, once impossible to translate via the internet, is now aligning with our digital habits, thanks to a new wave of phygital perfum...

Fragrance : Beauty : Technology

Micro Trends

Crypto-and-Mortar

With more consumers investing in virtual assets, bricks-and-mortar retailers are exploring ways to market and sell NFTs in physical shopping spaces.

Retail : Media : NFTs

Podcasts

Podcast: Firmenich's Matteo Magnani on the Future of Fragrance

In this episode of our Back to the F**kture podcast, The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond talks to Firmenich’s chief consumer and innova...

Podcast : Society : Back To The F**kture

Viewpoints

Seller-generated content will upend luxury retail

When celebrities clear out their closets, they sell through Basic.Space, a social commerce platform founded by Jesse Lee that’s augmenting online s...

Retail : Luxury : Community Commerce

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: Shortlist

We present the shortlist for our Futures 100 Innovators Awards, featuring the 10 leading innovators, disruptors and change-makers across 10 industr...

Futures100 Innovators

Micro Trends

Content Commerce

Consumers are watching and scrolling their way through a blended media landscape where streaming services, social media and gaming carry more seaml...

Retail : Pop-culture & Media : Technology

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Technology

Rapid advances in technology are creating a new pool of consumers who are happy to leave the social, economic and political crises of the real worl...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Society

Big Ideas

Six Luxury Brands Building Loyalty with NFTs

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are catching their second wind, as fashion and luxury brands start to harness digital tokens as tools to build brand loy...

Luxury : Fashion : NFTs

Communities

Women Who Play

As gaming continues its advance as a key tool for consumer engagement, women gamers are now demanding their share of the spotlight.

Future Of Gaming : Avatar Customisation : Women Empowerment

Markets

Gen Zalpha India Market

Amid India’s pandemic recovery, Gen Zalpha are navigating their journey to adolescence by building their own models of progress.

Youth : Education : Sustainability

Markets

Gen Z Hangout Market

Young people are breaking free from their lockdown cocoons, countering a year of isolation and under-stimulation with immersive, real-life social e...

Youth : Gen Z : Generation Z

Markets

Browsing The Future of Bookshops

While the book economy continues to grow, bookshops must re-invent themselves to remain relevant – but they’re not going anywhere.

Retail : Retail Experience : Online Retail

Viewpoints

Yassified Marketing

Appropriated by all corners of the internet, African American Vernacular English could simultaneously sell authenticity and empower Black women.

Advertising & Branding : Media And Entertainment : Society

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