The Futures Company: New Thinking

New thinking

In this section you will find our original thinking on important issues and their implications for business. These pieces – from our MONITOR Minute snapshots to our in-depth Future Perspectives – reflect our data-driven viewpoints and focus on the future.

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Beyond the eurozone crisis

Andrew Curry and Matthew Lynn write: As the Greek financial crisis plays out on the streets and in the council chambers of Europe, it’s hard to look beyond the day-to-day drama to the longer term. But that’s what we’ve tried to do in our new Future Perspectives report, which we have published this week. And [...]

Library futures

Andrew Curry and Victoria Ward write: Last week Francine Houben of Mecanoo Architecten talked about their design of Birmingham’s future library as a “living room for the city”. More than just storage, a dynamic space for movement, openness and exchange. In a blog she calls libraries “the cathedrals of our millennia”, which seemed a useful precursor to Saturday’s National Libraries Day [...]

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