What’s worse than reading one bad trend report? Reading 100 of them. It’s that time of year again. As we inch towards the last quarter of the year a flurry of trend reports will hit our news feeds and inboxes. It’s not just the exclusive privilege of those of us in foresight and futures who get to spend hours trawling through these, everyone one of us is sent one trend report or another. Anyone and everyone can have a perspective of what is likely to be influential in 2024.

The problem isn’t a lack of perspective, the problem is homogenization of perspectives. And the lack of complex, critical thinking applied to it.