The Future 01–10 Tech+Innovation Contents
The Future 01–10 Tech+Innovation Contents 4–24 Culture 105–123 Beauty 25–44 Tech & Innovation 124–143 Retail 45–65 Travel & Hospitality 144–161 Luxury 66–84 Brands & Marketing 162–181 Health 85–104 Food & Drink 182–199 Lifestyle THE FUTURE 100 3 Introduction Another year—and further breathless change. Welcome to their representation, 360-degree ethics and complete the Future 100 2018, our snapshot of the year ahead and the transparency. most compelling trends, themes and phenomena to keep on your radar. As ever, the pace of technological change Finally, and rather excitingly (for me, certainly), we are and the global nature of digital networks are causing moving further into a post-hipster world—or at least, much faster trend evolution. Food, beauty and ingredient into that world’s grown-up iteration. In 2017 we charted developments—not to mention new challenger companies the Xennials, the 30-45-year-old microgeneration caught and retail models —are scaling more quickly than ever. between the core millennial and generation X groups. Travel, food, drink, beauty and tech brands need to come to 2018 looks set to be the year in which 5G and augmented grips with this group’s expectations, as its net worth is set to reality (AR) drive massive change in our interactions more than double over the next 10 years. with the internet—we’ll be able to shop from our cars and visualize furniture in our home before deciding to buy it. This year's report covers all these topics—and more. Enjoy! And, rather than being described as “the future” at tech conferences, this will happen en masse.
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