Artificial intelligence—power and peril: AI and Generative AI are transforming work but also presenting ethical, regulatory, and social challenges.

The dual challenge of decarbonization and energy provision: Despite progress on decarbonization, economic growth and the energy required to fuel it will threaten current climate targets, putting greater emphasis on physical and financial resilience.

Post-globalization: The emergence of a new global order will engender more domestic and international tensions, including potential cyber and space conflicts and regulatory and trade battles.

Capital rationalization: A variety of factors will lead to a structurally more inflationary environment and higher real interest rates in many markets.

Re-humanizing work: Employees will seek more customized and meaningful experiences at work to match an increasingly diverse set of motivations they bring to their jobs.

Waving goodbye to the invisible hand: Businesses will face increasing and often competing demands from more activist governments and stakeholders.

Twin focus on bytes and bricks: Technology promises increasing abundance but rests on a physical foundation that is under increasing strain.

Seeking community among fragmented experiences: Already-fragmented consumers are diverging further as technology advances; the inherent desire for community remains strong but will be met more locally than globally.