Trends impacting Diplomacy
It is important to look broadly for disruption. This list includes 161 trends we're following that may shape the future for this industry. You can also click here to search for trends by industry and technology.
- Self-Sovereign Identity
- Web 3.0
- Tokenizing Value
- Tokens For Smart Royalties and Freelancers
- Immutable Content
- Content Provenance and Permanent Archiving
- Distributed Computing For a Cause
- Tech Companies Acting Like Banks
- Financial Inclusion
- The Rise of Quant Funds
- Regulating Open Banking
- Social Payments
- Countries Creating Digital Decentralized Currencies
- Antitrust Probes and Lawsuits
- Policy Uncertainty
- Regulating Data Ownership
- Digital Dividends to Fund Universal Basic Income Plans
- Multilateral Science and Technology Acts
- Overhauling Government Tech Infrastructure
- China’s Quest for Global Cybersovereignty
- U.S. and Global Election Security
- Interoperability Initiatives
- Corporate Foreign Policy
- Blockchain
- Digital Citizenship
- Demands for Accountability and Trust
- The Proliferation of Splinternets
- Optimizing for New Types of Search
- Investigating the Algorithms
- Journalism as a Service
- One-To-Few Publishing
- The First Amendment in a Digital Age
- Content Moderation in the Name of National Security
- Digitally Retouching History
- 5G Triggers a Surge of New Businesses
- Capturing IIoT Metadata
- Robots as a Service (RaaS)
- Collaborative Robots
- Self-Assembling Robots
- Commercial Quadrupedal Robots
- Decentralized Content Platforms
- Platform Switching and Demographic Shifts Threaten Established Social Networks
- Censorship in the Digital Age
- Sports Tech
- Connected Toys
- IRL Geography Reshapes the Virtual World
- Digital Frailty
- Trigger Warnings
- Continued Media Consolidation
- The Subscription Economy Matures
- Fuel-Free Space Propulsion Systems
- Mercury Rain
- Galactic Gas Stations
- Space Forces
- China’s Space Ambitions
- Ultra-Long Space Missions
- Crypto Trading Bots
- Bounty Programs
- Magnetic Tape Supply Shortages
- Biometric Malware
- State-Sponsored Security Breaches
- Critical Infrastructure Targets
- Offensive Government Hacking
- Space
- Imaging Space
- Lots (and Lots) of Satellite Launches
- Crowded Skies
- Internet from Space
- Space-Based Quantum Internet
- Space Junk
- Bigger, Bolder Telescopes
- Asteroid Mining for Resources
- The New Space Economy
- Made in Space
- Space Tourism
- Galactic Ride Sharing
- Seeking a New Life in the Off-World Colonies
- Security
- Zero-Day Exploits on the Rise
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs Go Commercial
- Gaining Access to Backdoors
- Remote Kill Switches
- Insecure Supply Chains
- Data Manipulation Becomes The Greater Threat
- Consumer Device Targeting
- Cyber Risk Insurance
- A.I.-Powered Automated Hacking Systems
- DDoS Attacks on the Rise
- Third-Party Verified Identities
- Ransomware-as-a-Service
- Decentralized Hacktivists
- Targeted Attacks on Voice Interfaces
- Open Source App Vulnerabilities
- Global Cybersecurity Pacts
- Proliferation of Darknets
- Hijacking Internet Traffic
- Weird Glitches
- The End of Biological Privacy
- Public Entities Selling Private Data
- Connected Device Security Loopholes
- Tech Workers Fighting for Privacy
- Encrypted Messaging Networks
- Vanishing Messages
- Digital Eavesdropping Rights
- Data Ownership
- Digital Self-Incrimination
- Differential Privacy
- Promoting Anonymity
- Verification
- Revenge Porn
- Drone Surveillance
- Influencing Future Privacy Laws
- Defining Online Harassment
- Safeguarding and Verifying Leaked Data
- Trolls
- Data Retention Policies
- Compliance Challenges and Unrealistic Budgets
- Privacy
- Geoengineering
- Storing Captured Carbon with Algae and Bacteria
- Converting Carbon Dioxide into Building Materials
- Stratospheric Aerosol Scattering with Sulfur Dioxide
- Reducing Corporate Reliance on Plastics
- Neuroenhancers
- Synth-Pop Makes a Comeback
- Simulating Human Experiences
- Synthetic Voice Fraud
- Synthetic Sex Tapes
- Synthetic Property Rights and Legal Protections
- Using Synthetic Media to Get Around Copyright Laws
- Synthetic Media Marketplaces
- Truth Decay in an Era of Synthetic Media
- Speech Synthesis
- Modulating Custom Voices
- Deep Behaviors and Predictive Machine Vision
- Generative Algorithms for Voice, Sound and Video
- Mapped Synthetic Environments
- Scaling Cannabis Infusion Techniques
- Specialized Cannabis CRM Platforms
- Scoring
- Persistent Tracking and Scoring
- Scoring Agencies Are On the Rise
- Intentionally Opaque Methodologies
- Recognition
- Faceprints
- Voiceprints
- The New Mil-Tech Industrial Complex
- National A.I. Strategies
- The Race to Establish A.I. Rules
- Algorithmic Warfare
- Making A.I. Explain Itself
- Using A.I. in Critical Systems
- China’s A.I. Rules
- Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- Personal Digital Twins
- The Rise of Undocumented A.I. Accidents
- Global Rush to Fund A.I.
- Algorithm Marketplaces
- Fragmentation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Proliferation of Franken-Algorithms