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The splintering of digital democracy

As younger generations enter the digital world, they are gravitating less to the “traditional” platforms — such as Facebook — and…

James Mortensen
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A path to climate consensus

Staring down the risk of mutually assured climate-destruction, and increasingly dissatisfied populations, by 2035 the world will experience a…

Richard Yetsenga
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Liberia: the canary in the social media coal mine?

To understand how the toxic information ecosystems of the future will inflame political divides and undermine democracy, Prue Clarke looks to how a…

Prue Clarke
Governance Information Networks Radicalisation Society and Identity Technology

The laundering of crazy and the future of democracy

Reduction in professional journalism in the digital age allows alternative truths and paranoid theories to take hold. What this means for the future…

Elise Thomas
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Instability in the Middle East

Whilst the regions authoritarian leaders are likely to use COVID-19 as cover for increased control, environmental impacts are likely to cause greater…

Raihan Ismail
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Network competition and the threat to liberal democracies

New technologies will become an element of geopolitical and social tension as society and industry adopt platforms outside of the view and reach of…

Chris Zappone
Governance Information Networks International Politics Radicalisation Society and Identity Technology

Citizen decision-making in a contested information environment

Until people can tangibly understand and conceptualise how influences on their decision-making at a micro level occurs, their ability to comprehend…

Nicole Matejic
Governance Information Networks International Politics Society and Identity Technology

Politics across the globe: a scenario

Social and technology trends will ensure that political governance will become more chaotic and dramatic, yet this need not result in poor governance…

Ryan Young

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Asia’s increasingly volatile role in international order

Asia will go from being a global centre of economic growth and political stability, to a centre of economic power but political instability….

Jeffrey Wilson
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The problem of hedonic adaption

The problem of hedonic adaption must be confronted, because not doing so will see democracy at risk of being replaced by technocracy in…

Tom Nichols
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Australia faces a struggling Southeast Asia

Economic growth in Southeast Asia will taper off, regional integration will stagnate, and governments will move closer to…

Ben Bland
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The coming era of big government

We are entering an era of ‘big government’ — governments around the world will have more power and control over markets and…

Yun Jiang
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Why reducing global vulnerability is paramount

Without a shift from current trends that focus vulnerability on segments of society, the impact of conflating natural hazards will overwhelm the…

Mark Crosweller
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The Futures Forecasting series

The goal of our Futures Forecasting series is to publish a range of plausible and realistic scenarios, based on current trends, that challenge our…

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Richard Yetsenga

Chief Economist and Head of Research
ANZ

James Mortensen

Research Fellow
ANU Cyber Institute

Prue Clark

Prue Clarke

Senior Executive Officer
Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas

Elise Thomas

Researcher, International Cyber Policy Centre
Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Raihan Ismail

Senior Lecturer
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU

Chris Zappone

Digital Foreign Editor
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Ryan Young

Director
National Security College Futures Hub

Nicole Matejic

Doctoral Candidate
University of Southern Queensland

Mark Crosweller

Director
Ethical Intelligence

Yun Jiang

Co-Editor
China Neican

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