futuremastery blog

“If you want a picture of the future,” George Orwell wrote in 1984, “imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Nearly 80 years after the publication of 1984, is the world so different from the one imagined by the writer, haunted by the threat of totalitarianism?

Admittedly, the comparison ...

Will the world go bust or recover in 2023?

As the adage says, futurists exist to help astrologers look serious…

At each year’s eve, analysts and institutions compete to share their predictions for the coming times. Quite a perilous exercise that often results in mixed outcomes, as we highlighted i...

A deep economic crisis, a worldwide pandemic, and the start of a new world war in Ukraine: The last few years have seen dramatic events unfold.

And while many investment firms anticipate a decade of stagflation in the West — or even a looming financial 'hurricane' — even darker times may lie ahead...