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What the future may hold
DECEMBER 192
Ray Hammond has been a futurologist for over 25
different countries
attend COP15:
years. He is the author of multiple books, all of which
Climate Change
have been bestsellers in the USA, UK and Europe.
conference in
There are some very clear trends happening which will
Copenhagen.
amplify over the next 10 years, and this is as a result of
the convergence of different forms of media.
2010
People are making more friends through technology,
which in effect, has enhanced the idea of social cohesion.
Younger people who rely constantly on their friends as
a source of support through technology are building a
historic, close-knit community within a modern frame-
work. Similarly, people’s concept of organising their
lifestyle has digitalised completely. The vast amount of
people will use the internet to organise actual external
world events.
Within ten years, I think all the social networks will
NOVEMBER Dubai operate as augmented realities, which will allow full,
defaults loans
physical interaction. Meaning you can step inside the
digital world and walk around.
MARCH? All parties
Globalisation will continue at pace. It hasn’t stopped or
are preparing for a
snap UK election,
gone away and when it is done ethically and sustainably
possibly in March it is the greatest force of good. For example, if a company
goes into a poor country and offers a young man a job,
training and a future, he is not likely to take up weapons
against you.
could no longer focus on deliv- communally to address the
ering our services, as the vast global needs of humanity. Ian Pearson has been a full time futurologist since
majority of Muslim humani- Our hope springs from a 1991, with a proven track record of around 85% accu-
tarian workers were wrongly new, developing philosophy racy at the 10 year horizon.
suspected of being part of called Fill The Gap. We want to We’ve just seen political leaders all around the world
an extremist, fundamental- create a productive process to making contracts regarding the reduction of oil con-
ist ideology. IR managed to deliver a valuable product that sumption and carbon. Ultimately, there will be an enor-
face these challenges, and was is needed by humanity. To do mous amount of progress towards electric vehicles and
recognised by governments this we need to institutional- the production of solar panels. Naturally, this will result
and beneficiaries. The result ise our way of our thinking; in a huge reduction where our use of oil is concerned
was a new partnership of the to think as an organism not thus directly impacting the Middle East. I expect that by
key humanitarian actors on individually. 2030, the price of oil will be $30 a barrel, which is virtu-
the world stage, and came to We succeeded -over the ally nothing compared to the current forecast which sug-
be called The Humanitarian last 25 years- in creating a gests the price of a barrel to reach $80 in the next year.
Forum. The birth of the forum new movement based on the This move away from oil due to the development of
at the beginning of 2008 humanitarian principles of alternative means like solar panels will mean that we’ll be
after four years of continu- Islam. Over the coming 10- using the sun as our main source of power. For countries
ous lobbying, communication, 20 years we need to create a in Europe, however, this will be virtually impossible.
organising meetings and new social movement based Thus what we might see is the development of solar
conferences was incredibly on social justice -for all- to farms in the south of Spain and resort to buying our elec-
difficult. cement the social infrastruc- tricity from solar farms in Africa and the Sahara desert,
Our mission did not stop at ture of our societies. for example. Ultimately, if the Middle East acts quickly,
the birth of the Humanitarian We should be like the we might not be buying oil from there, but we could be
Forum. Its siblings, the thread which is used to weave buying sun from there instead. So, what we need to see
Muslim Charities Forum, the our societal carpet. It is up to in the Middle East is a move away from dependency in
International HIV Fund and us to spin and then weave such oil, towards spending an awful lot of RND in developing
recently Zakat House, are also a thread into our societal car- the best and the most efficient and the cheapest solar
involved in presenting mature pet which is made out of all panels so they can export electricity instead of exporting
humanitarian Islamic work to the social components of our oil in the future.
the world, and to think more greater global society.
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