... long-term forecasting is not market-oriented but rather draws on the global financial system’s structure, i.e. basic elements of the global financial architecture that will define the direction and quantitative parameters of financial flows’ future dynamics. Scenario-based forecasting in this area resembles a prediction of architectural styles – pompous or minimalist, functionally unified or adapted to particular conditions and needs – that are determined by the clients’ ...
Journalists, experts, and publishers have for a long time expressed genuine concern over the future for print media, which many say is increasingly bleak due to pressure from electronic editions and television. Many experts today consider any discussion of print or newspaper journalism a waste of time, since the days of the paper as a mass medium ...
... ‘post-industrial’ age, etc.
A variety of the world’s regions have also claimed a leadership role in this century. For example, a lot has been written and said about the determinant role of the Asia-Pacific region in mankind’s progress in foreseeable future. More ‘localised’ versions have also been voiced. There have been persistent attempts to make the BRICS countries the world’s economic driver.
However, the early 2000s witnessed an increasingly potent point of view that the Arctic ...
... intrinsic property of microbes varying from one microbe type to another.
The standard approach to this issue today is to develop new vaccines attacking the mutated strain the way it is done for the flu virus. However, accumulation of knowledge will, in future, provide opportunities to develop
universal vaccines
– either to attack the unchangeable parts of the microbe or to induce an immune response of a very broad range of action.
The ageing developed world
Over the last hundred years, life expectancy ...
The future of the global financial system
In recent years, shock, anxiety, a sense of uncertainty, and growing instability in business and politics have become decisive in the life of the world, countries and individuals. The hopes of Russians that after ...
... drive to increase their global competitiveness.
These trends are likely to materialize within the coming two or three decades. A longer-term forecast should inevitably require inclusion of political and social aspects of the TNC activities, with the future scenarios to be determined by high variability of these factors. So, who is going to inhabit the transnational business jungle in the 22nd century?
Scenario #1. Strangling Ficuses
Photo: babowenphotography
Strangler fig tree engulfed cypress tree
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... and the transition of a growing number of countries to a post-industrial stage of development.
Photo: Robotic assembly plant
Over the past decade, significant potential was accumulated in industrial automation. Some analysts believe that in the near future, the use of robots will become widespread; they anticipate that
robots will change the world
as radically as the world was changed by production mechanization at some point. In trade, the future impact of robotics is seen as follows. The universal ...
... completely changed modern cinematography. It is not only about technological innovations but, rather, about dramatic change of the cinema language. The insight into the first century of cinema will, perhaps, help answer the question what it is in for in the future.
A retrospective study
It’s taken for granted that in the 20th century cinematography survived two revolutions after the introduction of first sound and later color.
On September 17, 1922 in Berlin the demonstration of the first talkie “Der ...
... becomes new again. When we come across the statements on the incompatibility of “outdated” sovereignty and humanitarian principles of contemporary world order, discussions on the “untimeliness” of sovereignty and absence of its prospect in the future, unintentionally, one remembers the opinion of one of the founding fathers of the international relations theory E.H.Carr expressed more than half a century ago. He believed that the irrelevance of state sovereignty is the ideology of dominating ...
The political future of Latin America
Due to the political and economic transformations taking place today in Latin America, the logical question is: Will the current integration process lead to a redrawing of the future political map of this continent? What trends ...
