These are the questions The Future Is Wild Set out to answer, by involving the world’s leading scientists in creating a fully animated vision of what we might find, if only we could travel in time. See it all began with Science.

From the beginning we wanted The Future is Wild to be about more than simply guesswork, so we recruited 16 scientists from top institutions around the world to provide the scientific basis for the project.

They’re experts in fields such as geology, climatology and biology, and together they painstakingly projected where evolution and planetary events might take the Earth 5 million, 100 million and 200 million years from now.

By blending good science with real imagination our team has created three very different worlds along the timeline; exotic places you can explore through animatronics, films, theme parks, books and even Manga comic books.

Whether you’re 8 or 80, we’ve an exciting adventure to share with you – so welcome!

Source: BBC – The Future is Wild

1. The age of instant communications.
2. A world without economic borders.
3. Four steps to a one-world economy.
4. Internet commerce and learning.
5. The new service society.
6. The marriage of big and small.
7. The new age of leisure.
8. The changing shape of work.
9. Women in leadership.
10. Your amazing brain rediscovered.
11. Cultural nationalism.
12. The growing underclass.
13. The active aging of the population.
14. The new do-it-yourself boom.
15. Cooperative enterprise.
16. The triumph of the individual.
All 16 trends are fully developed in chapter one of  “The Learning Revolution” by Gordon Dryden and Dr. Jeannette Vos.

What about Web Trends

We’re well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more. Currently the Web is still mostly accessed via a PC, but we’re starting to see more Web excitement from mobile devices (e.g. iPhone) and television sets (e.g. XBox Live 360).

What then can we expect from the next 10 or so years on the Web?
Here we have 10 Web trends to look out for the next decade.

1. Semantic Web
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Virtual Worlds
4. Mobile
5. Attention Economy
6. Web Sites as Web Services
7. Online Video / Internet TV
8. Rich Internet Apps
9. International Web
10. Personalization

Our society is about to go through major transformation. It’s not just about new trends in technology, relationships, economy and lifestyle. We will think differently and perceive things very differently in a short while. Those who understand upcoming changes have a better chance to succeed in the future.

What do you thik is going to change in your environment, in your industry, in your life?

Richard Friend’s supermolecules will give us paper-thin display screens–and much more.

The Secrets of Scent

Linda Buck maps the brain using her nose.

Steely Dan

Daniel Branagan and his heroic metal.

Mister Natural

Masatsugu Taniguchi tries to create the first nonpolluting economy in the world–and a profit.

Plastic Man

Bob Langer may help you grow a new heart.

Millions Served

Florence Wambugu feeds her country with food others have the luxury to avoid.

The Titan of the Teensy

Charles Lieber sees lots of cheap, tiny devices in your future.

Mr. Burns’ Dilemma

Larry Burns has a new engine.

Science Beyond Belief

Steve Quake wants to speed up drug discovery by setting off a million reactions at once–all in a one-inch-square slab of rubber.

A New Kind of Entitlement

Hernando de Soto’s radical plan to end world poverty.

A Dirty Business

Chaitan Khosla makes drugs from soil.

Safe at any Speed

Steven Wallman tries to make the market more efficient for individual investors.

The Matchmaker

Vanessa Kirsch reinvents charity.

The Biggest Damn Opportunity

Charles Simonyi’s smarter software.

Brave New World

Will Wright’s videogames simulate life–or at least the life we might live in the future.