Aftershocks and Opportunities 2: Navigating the Next Horizon

Aftershocks and Opportunities 2: Navigating the Next Horizon bursts with provocative ideas, disruptive shifts, hope, dystopian visions, and inspirational possibilities. It explores what opportunities arise from the pandemic, and what might drive the post-pandemic future of society, business, education, health, insurance, and travel.

An agenda setting, thought provoking, challenging, and inspiring book – Aftershocks and Opportunities 2: Navigating the Next Horizon – launches on Tuesday 28 September. The book features 37 world-class futurists, analysts, subject matter experts, and strategists from 16 countries on five continents who explore the shifts, issues, risks, and opportunities that could shape our post-pandemic world, including:

· The crypto economy and a single global currency

· Geopolitical shifts and China-US relations

· Post-pandemic retirement, health, and education

· Regenerating Africa and the Caribbean

· Technological advances and zero waste solutions for food sovereignty

· Global opportunities and risks

· Deep dives on agenda setting and disruptive technologies

· The new normal for national security, lifestyles, and societal cohesion.

Throughout 40 chapters of outlooks, scenarios, and fiction future by authors from as far and wide as the UK, USA, Argentina, Australia, Egypt, Greenland, Kenya, and the UAE, the book explores critical ‘future defining’ themes. The goal is to give individuals, leaders, decision makers, and organisations a broad scan of the horizon and scenarios for key future factors shaping our world over the next five to ten years and beyond

In the book, the 37 future thinkers share their expertise and insights on key topics including exponential advances in science and technology, societal change, medical breakthroughs, economic volatility, and shifts in geopolitical power. Each chapter challenges the reader to think about how these developments might these play out, and the impact they could have on our lives, our communities, our organisations, and our nations.

Many contributors highlight the pandemic as a once in a generation opportunity for positive change; outlining the potential to reset our values, tap into the possibilities created by exponentially advancing technologies and address the deep economic, social, and political impacts of the pandemic. They highlight practical ways in which these possibilities can be harnessed to find a fairer, more progressive, transparent, and sustainable society.

Contributors:
Adam Hawkey (UK),
Alejandro Repetto (Argentina),
Alexandra Whittington (USA),
Alisha Bhagat (USA),
Arthur Weiss (UK),
Boyd Cohen (Spain),
Brett Peppler (Australia),
Caroline Figueres (Netherlands),
Cathy Hackl (USA),
Claire Nelson (USA),
David Smith (UK),
Doaa Alghalban (United Arab Emirates ),
Epaminondas Christophilopoulos (Greece),
Frederic Balmont (France),
Gina Clifford (USA),
Greg Wasowski (UK),
Hans Stavleu (Netherlands),
Hjörtur Smárason (Greenland),
Jason Siko (USA),
Joana Lenkova (UK),
Jose Cordeiro (Spain),
Kapil Gupta (UK),
Karolina Dolatowska (Poland),
Kevin Jae (Canada),
Leland Shupp (USA),
Leopold Mureithi (Kenya),
Marian Salzman (Switzerland),
Max Stucki (Finland),
Michael Nuschke (Canada and Mexico),
Nisreen Lahham (Egypt),
Patrick van der Duin (Netherlands),
Reza Jafari (USA),
Richard Freeman (UK),
Roger Camrass (UK),
Rohit Talwar (UK),
Steve Wells (UK),
and Tony Hunter (Australia)