How do Futurists see what's coming before it has arrived? Partially, it's by subscribing to feeds and resources known for being the first to discover new and potential trends.
I have compiled over 100 of my favourite resources for discovering the future that include everything from an AI that analyses culture (Sparks & Honey) through to the team working on what the world might look like up to 10,000 years from now (The Long Now Foundation). There's also a bunch of tastemakers and aggregators worth following for some of the industries I track.
RESOURCES BY TYPE:
General Trends
Wunderman Thompson Intelligence
Stylus
Sparks & Honey
WGSN
WARC
Institute For The Future
The Long Now Foundation
World Economic Forum – Strategic Intelligence
Entrepreneur
Harvard Business Review
Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Economist
New Scientist
Pop Sugar
Google Trends
Answer The Public
Also Asked
Thing Testing
Matt Klein
Exploding Topics
Food Trends
Food+Tech Connect
Food Dive
Restaurant Dive
Eater
626 Night Market
Food Design Thinking
Bompass & Parr
Dr Morgaine Gaye
Mold
Sugar & SPACE
The Dutch Institute of Food & Design
Foodlosofia
Eatelier
The Counter
Cannabis Trends
Hemp Health & Innovation Expo
Cannabis Club Australia
Green Market Report
Herb
High Times
Kush Queen
Cannasexual
High Cuisine
Cannaisseur Series
Cannabition
Grassfed
Glowing Goddess Getaway
MedMen
Tech Trends
Tech Crunch
This Week In Creative Technology
IFTTT
Nvidia AI
Digital Trends
Tech By Guff
Within
GitHub
Now This Earth
Futurism
Future
Moz
Social Media Examiner
Social Media Today
Litmus
Really Good Emails
Awwwards
Product Hunt
Play Trends
Daisie
Twitch
Pinterest Trends
BuzzFeed
Reddit
Shower Thoughts
Fuck Jerry
Some eCards
Strange Planet
Colossal
Designboom
It's Nice That
Jessica Walsh
Showfields
MSCHF
Meow Wolf
Quirky
Wellness Trends
Global Wellness Summit
Calm
Lonely Lingerie
Sober Girl Society
Apartment Therapy
Mental Floss
Freelancing Females
Shan Boodram
Esther Perel
Lanserhof At The Arts Club
Body Trends
Preen.Me
Rachel Condon
Modibodi
Hims
Glossier
Future of Sex
Museum of Sex
Pink Bits
Intimate Ecology
Seed
Did you know I analyse trends daily? This enables me to have an always-on landscape of opportunities for my clients. In addition to tracking shifts in culture, I do micro analysis of the following consumer facing industries most relevant to my clients: food, beauty, health, wellness, makers, gaming, sex and cannabis.
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