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title: The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream author: Amy Webb type: #Book link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29502380-the-signals-are-talking?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=WWip2JB4o6&rank=1
Tags: #lit #moc
Notes
Trendspotting
- ¶ Trend (foresight)
- Future trends emerge when a fundamental human need is met by a new enabling technology.
- Inflection points reveal themselves first at the edges
- ¶ The genie problem
Barriers to spotting trends
- Change is disorienting because it is constant
- ¶ Paradox of the present
- Market research
- Protect dissent - To overcome our “belief bias,” we must engage in deliberate disagreement
- We understimate the importance of things not directly relevant to us
Methods and frameworks
- Amy Webb’s method for finding the future
- CIPHER method for trendspotting
- Think about the future across multiple planes and timezones
- Market research is a poor tool for trendspotting
Communicating about the future
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