Trends impacting Urban Planning
It is important to look broadly for disruption. This list includes 104 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.
- Smart City Initiatives
- Strengthening Municipal Cyber-Security Efforts
- The Anthropocene Epoch
- Unpredictable, Rising Sea Levels
- Extreme Weather Events
- Human Migration Patterns Shift
- Fuel-Free Space Propulsion Systems
- Mercury Rain
- Galactic Gas Stations
- Space Forces
- China’s Space Ambitions
- Ultra-Long Space Missions
- 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
- Rings and Bracelets
- Hearables / Earables
- Smart Gloves
- Forced Bundling and Planned Obsolescence
- Smart Cameras
- The End of Remote Control
- Smart Appliance Screens
- Cloud-Based Wireless Body Area Networks
- Commercial Full-Body Exoskeletons
- Wearable Air Conditioners
- Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs)
- Smartwatches
- Off-Planet Terraforming
- 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
- Near-Real-Time Application Environments
- Hyper-Local Data Centers for Edge Computing
- Quantum Supremacy
- Drones
- Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Drone Operation Centers
- Clandestine, Disappearing Drones
- Persistent Tracking and Scoring
- Scoring Agencies Are On the Rise
- Intentionally Opaque Methodologies
- Faceprints
- Voiceprints
- Artificial Intelligence