Future

We believe people don't have to fear the innovation age as being victims of it. They can actually embrace it by saying 'okay, I've got to have some additional skill sets I can go back to'.

Mayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor

The workplace of the future is hard to predict specifically, but one thing we can predict is that we will increasingly rely on human intelligence and creativity as opposed to human capacity to perform repetitive tasks.

Co-Founder of Slack, Former CEO & Creator of Flickr

We are facing a global catastrophe, one which should be a bigger motivator for us to come-together around a common cause than even World War II. Climate scientists tell us we're facing an existential crisis, and unless we get emissions under control in the next decade, that climate change will be irreversible.

Environmental activist & former Executive Director of Greenpeace International

The distinction between offline and online retail will vanish, as consumers will not be able to tell where one started and the other finished. This is what we call at Farfetch 'Augmented Retail'.

Founder and CEO of Farfetch, luxury fashion e-commerce platform

Sustainability isn't a trend in our kitchen - it's a responsibility. We have to think about the future of our planet with every dish we create.

First female chef in France to receive three Michelin stars

We're heading to a world where we can eliminate disease, increase our intelligence, and access all the food, healthcare, energy and education we could desire.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

As humans, we've evolved in a world where the pace of change was slow. Our minds are not structured for the pace of rapid change that we're seeing and, increasingly, will experience. One way that we deal with the accelerating rate of change is by sort of riding on top of that tsunami of change rather than being crushed by it.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

This is a really exciting time for human space exploration, we have a lot to be hopeful about – and we have a whole bunch of private companies who have very credible strategies and vehicles. Like in so many other industries, the government has played a key role in kickstarting things – but to realise the full potential of this industry (space) we'll need private industry to get involved seriously; and we're just at the beginning of that journey.

Astronaut and educator who conducted spacewalks on the Hubble Space Telescope

From a global point of view, we are currently in the middle of a technical revolution similar to what our grandparents experienced when everybody switched their horse carts for cars. The same is happening now and it is a phase of transition for many businesses.

Former Formula 1 World Champion, won 2016 title with Mercedes

What's the business hip hop of this post pandemic world? Who's going to be the Rapper's Delight of the post pandemic world?

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

Ultimately, we want to make it unnecessary to be a B Corp – we want it to be just the norm of how all businesses are run, but that means we have to change the rules of the game and the role of business in society.

Co-Founder of Bridgewater Associates & Pioneer in Radical Transparency

I remain a technical optimist… the problem is not artificial intelligence, it's natural stupidity.

Thanks to monetary policy, business cycles are far less volatile today than they were in the 19th century, when we had huge swings. But if cryptocurrency takes over the way its proponents would like, we could return to the ups and downs of the pre-monetary policy era.

Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics; Mechanism Design Theory Pioneer

We have to leave behind the myth that our economies are actually fit for the present that we understand, and the vision of the future we want to create. We need to redesign economics for our times.

Creator of the Doughnut Economics framework for sustainable development

We are, in the early days of the 21st century, talking about the death of the living world as an environmental externality. That alone should be an alarm-bell that our framework doesn't serve our time.

Creator of the Doughnut Economics framework for sustainable development

In the future people will spend the majority of their time online, with their online identity and digital assets. The majority of their interactions with friends, family, relatives and colleagues will be online.

Founder of TRON blockchain platform & cryptocurrency entrepreneur