Horizon Scanner
Notice what is changing.
Find seeds of change, emerging behaviours and new issues that will reshape your operating environment.
Change what you already know.
Fizz up your assumptions. Warp your perspectives. Act with new insight.
The Fizz
Explore what it means.
Turn these signs of change into vivid possible worlds that make it easier for you to stretch your imagination.
Work with us
Change what is possible.
Bring people together to challenge existing assumptions, build shared understanding and decide what to do differently.
01 / Horizon Scanner
See what is changing before it becomes obvious.
The Horizon Scanner searches across a growing body of evidence for unusual developments, emerging behaviours and seeds of change relevant to the questions you care about.
Explore Horizon Scanner →- Economic: Countries plug their payment and ID systems into each other directly, not through American middlemen. (example.classification)
- Social: Ordinary voters now care about who owns critical digital infrastructure. (example.classification)
- Political: Middle powers and smaller countries club together to run joint technology programs. (example.classification)
- Behaviour: LLM output becomes increasingly Joycean, and some human communities solely use this style of language to communicate. (example.classification)
02 / The Fizz
Make unfamiliar futures easier to think about.
The Fizz turns seeds of change into vivid possible worlds, suggesting future behaviours, institutions, objects, language and culture that make ideas of change more tangible.
Explore The Fizz →Future fractions
Symbols and rituals
A low windowless building in Port Said is the hub of cross-border settlements for Asian and African networks.
Sensory texture
The Middle Powers Procurement Pool has become a force in international trade, and the Civil Ledger authorises who can use it.
Culture
The ‘McGuffin’ in the new film Passportless is a revoked digital wallet credential.
03 / Work with us
What are you trying to understand?
Tell us what is changing, what feels stuck, or what you hope to make happen.
Talk to us →01
What is changing around us that we need to pay more attention to?
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What assumptions does our strategy quietly depend on?
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What might we need to do differently?
People have agency.
Futures work changes the way you think about the present, and strengthens your ability to act for the better.