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SuperShifts 50 · annual report

Nine forces are reshaping the decade.

We track them as SuperShifts — long-running changes in how people work, govern, build and belong. Every pattern we publish is placed against one.

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HORIZONS: signals shaping the future, from Steve Fisher and Ja-Naé Duane.

The framework

The nine SuperShifts

Decade-scale forces. Each one holds five of the patterns we track.

GDGenerational DriftIFIntelliFusionTCTechcelerationRRReality RemixPFPowerFlowEAEco-AwakeningSQSocialQuakeWMWorld MosaicBNBioNexus
Patterns

Three of the 45 patterns

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IF-01

Predictive Governance

Public agencies deploy AI foresight systems for policy modeling.

IFPF
EA-01

Climate Capital Rotation

Investment flows aggressively toward green infrastructure.

EAPF
BN-01

Longevity Breakthroughs

Age-extension therapies move mainstream.

BNGD
Illustrative scenario
Now / Next / Beyond

Where the energy constraint goes

Now
0–2 years

Deferral absorbs the surprise

Utilities keep plants that were scheduled to close. Transition timelines move once, then move again.

Next
2–6 years

Siting follows water

Cooling withdrawal becomes a binding permit condition in more jurisdictions than power availability is.

Beyond
6+ years

Load and location decouple

Where compute must be near demand and where it can be near supply becomes the industrial policy question.

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Designing the Future

A visual guide to building future-ready organizations

Steve Fisher and Ja-Naé Duane · Wiley · March 2027

Building on SuperShifts, the book moves from understanding change to designing what comes next. It introduces two systems: the Spectrum Foresight Framework, for sensing signals and mapping shifts, and the Futures Operating System, for embedding foresight in how organizations think, decide and act.

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