Bibliography

Entreprises, travail - Recherche, sciences, techniques

The Signals are Talking : Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream

The Signals are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream
Amy Webb, a US futurologist who founded the Future Today Institute, wrote The Signals are Talking to offer a guided 6-step process to evaluate the pronouncements made by researchers or business people and be able to understand how much impact they could have on the mid to long term. The objective is to provide the reader with a systematic way of evaluating new ideas being developed on the fringe. Using concrete examples, she helps the reader become more precise in ...

Public Affairs, 2016, 336 pages

Note de veille

Société, modes de vie

Lifestyles based on Localness and Slowness ?

Lifestyles based on Localness and Slowness?

80% of people in France, Germany, Spain and America view their pace of life as too fast!

Analyse prospective

Économie, emploi - Géopolitique

The Slowing of the Chinese Economy : the Issues

The Slowing of the Chinese Economy: the Issues

China’s resistance to the 2008 crisis was impressive and its slowdown since 2013 has been surprising. Is this deliberate or involuntary? Will it be short-lived?

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Shaping Futures

Shaping Futures n° 3

Shaping Futures n° 3

This quarterly bulletin is produced by Futuribles International in partnership with Michelin Challenge Bibendum Open Lab.  Its aim is to alert the members of Futuribles International and Michelin Challenge Bibendum Open Lab to developments that are likely to have an effect, directly or indirectly, on mobility issues.
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Bibliography

Économie, emploi

PostCapitalism : A Guide to our Future

PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future

Allen Lane, 2015, 368 pages

Why are we at the end of the capitalist system? This is what Paul Mason attempts to explain in this book. To drive home the point, he devotes several chapters to the following questions: how has capitalism constantly reinvented itself and what is currently preventing it from doing so?

Bibliography

Économie, emploi - Géopolitique

The Keys to Power

The Keys to Power

Seuil, 2015, 168 pages

How does a (former) CEO of one of the last French multinationals in the CAC40 index see the world and the different forces at work in it? The aim of this book by Jean-Louis Beffa (former CEO of Saint-Gobain) is to tell us just that.

Note de veille

Urban Utopias and Construction

Urban Utopias and Construction. The Eiffage Group's Phosphore Programme

The ‘Phosphore’ project, rolled out by the construction conglomerate Eiffage, provides a good example of the principle of broadening the range of actors involved in urban innovation. Without claiming to offer a blueprint for society, Phosphore nonetheless goes far beyond the ordinary industrial or urban project. It verges on a utopian approach both in its incorporation of the main themes of contemporary utopias—the limit on resources, personal fulfilment, sharing and mobility—and its methods of horizontal management.

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