If you want help in pondering the future and how trends may play out, there are few people with the experience, knowledge and broad view possessed by Rob Watson, CEO of ECOTech, International, and well known as the driving force behind the creation and success of LEED.
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The ones who understand future trends have always been the ones to prosper most.
They complain, for instance, that history is too much neglected in the consideration of future trends.
Rarely addressed in the context of climate change, future population trends could make the difference between success and failure in the long-term balance of human activities, atmosphere, and climate.
As a broadcaster peering into the future, the BBC recognizes two very separate trends.
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Therefore most of Wall Street predicts the future based upon past trends.
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These conferences bring together industry innovators, entrepreneurs and financing sources to exchange ideas, forge new relationships and discuss the current and future industry trends.
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Professor Lobell said the study only referred to past relationships, as extrapolating the findings to predict future trends would require a number of assumptions to be made.
However, nowhere is the tendency to extend trends in a straight line into the future without expectations of reversals more prevalent than in the world of investing.
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That is, the the model assumes the future is dominated by a continuation of the strongest current trends.
In particular, behavioural economists have argued that human beings tend to be too confident of their own abilities and tend to extrapolate recent trends into the future, a combination that may contribute to bubbles.
Governments are certainly not immune to the fallacy of extending current trends as a means of forecasting the future, while ignoring the history.
Amazon reported margin pressures and capital investments, but it did not connect the dots on how these current trends would translate into growth in the future.
The company said it expects iron ore prices to remain strong in the long time and reverse current trends at some point in the near future.
Some sessions will focus specifically on silver and the platinum group metals, including future trends in off-road engine demand for platinum and pressures faced by producers.
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Richard Nicholls is media, technology and telecoms account director with the Future Foundation, which identifies and forecasts social and consumer trends and determines the extent of their impacts on markets, services, brands and products.
Yet the two concerns remained cautious about future sales trends, citing weak economic growth and consumer uncertainty.
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There is no implied guarantee these trends will continue into the future, or follow a path based on election results.
What do these trends tell us about the future of high-wage employment?
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One of the primary entertainment trends of recent years -- and one with legs into the future -- can also be traced back 50 years.
For although the future path of technology can, to some extent, be extrapolated from existing trends, the social forces that help or hamper its adoption are far less predictable.
As human behavior and weather cycles have not changed much for hundreds of years, the odds of a continuation of past trends are a good, but not perfect, guide to the future.
In short, the future looks bright for the company as it looks to be taking right steps to improve its subscriber trends.
These are the trends that Frishberg thinks will dominate the future.
And in May, a Pew Research Center poll showed that half of U.S. adults believe the current trends point toward their children's future being worse than their own present.
Taking account of the rapid pace of technological change in the area of media and communications, the expert group meeting tried to look to the future in an attempt to anticipate new challenges and trends.
The main purpose of the seminar was to give an general idea of current state of ground water in Uzbekistan, scientific-educational activities and the area of usage of underground water and determination of future trends relating to improvement of research methods and educational approaches with development of practical recommendations.
"Robots that are currently 'luxury' according to price will be commoditized in the future and drop in price, very similar to the PC model, " predicts Dan Kara , president of Robotics Trends .
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