202112290117 - A Trend
The manifestation of sustained change within an industry, the public sector, or society, or in the way that we behave toward one another.
- A starting point that helps us simultaneously meet the demands of the present while planning for the future. In a sense, trends are the analogy our minds need to help us think about and understand change.
Sources of change
- Everyone within an organizations should be aware of trends
- Trends are subjected to and shaped by external forces (not a vacuum). Just as its useful to organize our thinking along a chronological path through time zones, it's important to categorize the various dimensions of our everyday life, with technology as the primary interconnector
- Wealth distribution: Even as tech becomes more accessible, a ubiquitous, persistent digital divide will impact our future wealth distributions.
- Education: Tech does not just affect students - teachers and administrators must now use electronic record keeping systems for tests and grading.
- Government: There isn't a facet of our modern-day government that does not intersect with science and tech trends.
- Politics: Citizen activists area banding together and using online petitions and social media to make sure their voices are heard.
- Public Health: Cognitive computing platforms are helping public health researchers predict and map the health of our neighborhoods and communities
- Demography: Understand how our population is shifting—our birth and death rates, income, population, migration, incidence of disease an other dynamics—is core to managing everything from big business to city government.
- Economy: Science and tech trends intersect with all of the major economic indicators, whether that's durable goods retail trade, or residential construction.
- Environment: Tech is both harming and improving our planet.
- Journalism: How do we learn about the world around us? News gathering, publishing, and broadcasting are inextricably tied to the internet, our computers, mobile devices, algorithms, and the cloud.
- Media: Our individual and collective use of social networks, chat services, digital video channels, photo sharing services, and so on have forever changed how we interact with each other.