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Supercircular design

Restaurants are getting a circular redesign.

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Flexivores

Consumers are reconsidering their culinary habits, saving meat and extravagant cuisines for travel and special occasions.

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Affirmational beauty

Beauty is merging with identity exploration and play, elevating makeup into an act of self-affirmation.

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Krista Kim and Peter Martin, co-creators of the 0RB System

"We used to be passive consumers, but now we have become conscious co-creators."

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A woman in a lab coat wearing glasses holds a device over another woman's head in a black-and-white photo.

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Brain health

Gen Z has found a new way to improve their mental and emotional health: intentional brain development.

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A digitally rendered living space with two brown sofas and a light wooden circle coffee table in the forefront, additional brown chairs and white stools by a counter in the background.

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Digital nesting

Mass retailers are helping avatars design their virtual homes.

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An eye with long lashes is centered and takes up the image. A faint image of the earth is reflected in the eye's iris.

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Next gen AI

AI is rebranding, leveraging its ability to improve safety, creativity, and equity for consumers and users.

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Four people stand at a podium. Left to right: a man with light skin, dark hair and a dark beard with glasses, a woman with light skin and black hair, a woman with light skin and brown hair holding a microphone, and a man with tan skin facing away.

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New wave careers

Young professionals are reevaluating careers of the future.

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A tree-lined city skyline across a river with several tall buildings and a tall, pointed, spiraling building in the center of the screen.

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The five-star office

In a sustained bid to draw employees back to the office, businesses are adopting ideas from the hospitality sector.

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A woman with light skin and long dark hair walks towards the viewer through a magenta, lit-up tunnel, and looks up and to the viewer's right.

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The joyconomy

Joy and play are setting the tone for 2023.

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A woman with long hair stands in a magenta room with neon striped walls, her arm stretched out in front of her.

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The Future 100: 2023 vocabulary

A glossary of terms that will define 2023.

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The Future 100: 2023

Our annual forecast of 100 trends to watch in the coming year.

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Mapping reality

Why is navigation tech a linchpin of Web3 futures?

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Three hospital beds with yellow sheets are lined up next to each other in a white medical hall.

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Decentralizing Healthcare

Healthcare DAOs are poised to disrupt the industry.

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A sunset beach scene. To the left, an electric car charger. To the right, a gray electric car.

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Electric futures

A new infrastructure is emerging for the future of electric travel.

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CES 2023: Key trends

Intuition, access, and accountability were major themes across the showrooms at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

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