2011 Trends

What’s Next: Top Trends blog offers these trends for 2011:

They’re more fulsome after the links.

1. Uncertainty

2. Volatility

3. Discontent

4. Formality

5. Resurgent Religion

And of particular note, we can see this awesome attempt at humility:

Timeline of Failed Predictions

I have to say I like how this mind works. I see these emotional underpinnings to so much social, economic, technological, academic, and political discourse nowadays.

I’d add that number six is ‘fear’, a staple since 911 and the 2008 crash and the foundation of so many conversations today from North Korea to Wikileaks to Afghanistan to Madoff. I can’t find any thinking person who’s not conflicted.

As the Monkees song goes – ‘Only shades of gray’.

Stephen