In recent years, the world has seen significant economic and social changes due to digitalization—and these changes could grow and accelerate in the coming years.
This report explores change drivers and how biodigital convergence could transform five economic sectors and areas of life.
Our manager of foresight, Marcus Ballinger, examines how emerging technologies are shifting value in the next digital economy by breaking four scarcities associated with specific kinds of human activities.
In this video, we discuss how the convergence of digital technologies and biological systems is becoming a part of our future, and how it may impact our lives. The information provided in this video is ...
Reliable data is essential to economic forecasting. Digital technologies are challenging the certainty previously found in official statistics and macroeconomic models.
Digital technology has weakened the interpretative power of the main macroeconomic indicators—gross domestic product (GDP), the unemployment rate, and the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Digital technologies will motivate change in financial market behaviours across many channels and spark a range of activities that can affect market volatility.
The way businesses and consumers share the value created from ownership of technology and data determines whether there is demand destruction or demand creation.
The latest advances in digital technologies could impact trade flows and gross domestic product (GDP) by enabling a rise in both local and global production.
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