Future Foundation trends for 2017
"There are precarious times ahead", warned Dominic Harrison. The content director at the Future Foundation was speaking as he introduced the trends consultancy’s Trending 2017 event in London in November 2016. "An uncertain zeitgeist hangs in the air as we look forward to 2017".
A precarious future
Today, "contentious facts" and "claims of questionable truth go unchallenged", Harrison said; consequently, we "live in a post-fact, post-truth world". So evident is this new reality that Google has recently launched a fact checking servicewhich aims to "shine a light on its...