I think my mega trend for 2018 is just the word “same”. Generally speaking for most people in the world, technology has changed remarkably little in 2017, 2016, 2015 and every year since about 2011.  The trends decks I wrote in 2013 pretty much still predict the same future that you see a way off today.  It’s taking a long time for tech change to materialize. Perhaps it never will. Perhaps shows like Black Mirror that show a world similar today with mere incisions of the new are most accurate.  Societal and behavioral change caused by software or business models built on top of tech from 2005-2010 are the things that have really shifted.  Yet we don’t tend to talk about that.  I’m working on a huge deck that explores this. …see more