For thousands of years, ownership was an essential aspiration for humankind, but there are signs that this is changing. This research is studying the disruptive tech-driven businesses which change our attitude toward ownership. The Horizon Scanning is to identify the weak signals which indicate the disruption in how and what people possess. Analysis of collected articles alluded to the growth of subscription/sharing economy, virtual economy, and tokenization, being recognized as the weak signals which shape the future of ownership. According to these signals, Futures Wheel sessions were conducted to explore the consequences of signals in real life. The final scenario developed in the form of a short story, and it coalesces the hypergrowth of the mentioned signals.
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Future Economies: People Are Paying Millions For Land in the Metaverse
|Future of Ownership|Our report predicted that the global population will increase spending on virtual worlds and that is an important observation for the virtual economy as it shows the growing importance of the virtual economy. In 2021, Facebook changed its name to Meta. Many pundits today believe that virtual economies will boom in the near future. There […]
Service Lords: a Scenario for the Future of Ownership
|Future of Ownership|Governments, big companies, and few wealthy families own the whole world, and people can have access to their services. The general cost is low, but most people own nothing; they spend all of their income on service subscriptions.
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The Collaborative Encyclopedia of the Future