15 Trends That Are Shaping The Future

15 Trends That Are Shaping The Future – Business Insider

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Trends that start out small can wind up transforming the way we live. For example, just a few years ago, social media seemed like a fad for teenagers. Today we use it to communicate, figure out where to eat — even break up with people. 

How do we decide what to buy? Is wearable technology here to stay? Do you check your phone as often as the average person does?

Companies need to pay attention to the changing ways consumers act and think, because if they don’t adapt, they’ll be left behind.

We’ve picked 15 of SAP’s “99 Facts On The Future Of Business” to give you a taste of where we are and where we’re headed. Click through to find out which trends are shaping our lives, and read more about SAP’s Conversations on the Future of Business.

We check our phones every 9.6 minutes (in a 24-hour day).

And mostly, we’re not using our phones to check for the time, says analyst Mary Meeker.

The amount of content on the Internet keeps growing at an astounding rate.

Google performs 2 million searches a minute, and 72 hours worth of video is uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds. You can find out more in infographics on the Daily Mail site. 

We’re watching more and more video online.

It’d take someone over 5 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month in 2017. Read the white paper from Cisco. 

We listen to complete strangers when deciding what to buy. Sorry, Mom.

If Mom says to buy a sweater, but commenters are saying it’ll unravel in minutes, we’re just not going to buy it, Solis says.

If customer service is rude to us, we’ll leave and never come back.

What do we hate the most? Getting trapped on a voice-automated phone line or lost on some site’s help page, according to Genesys. 

For all the competition over cellphone data plans, we still use Wi-Fi whenever we can.

This data comes from OECD Communications Outlook.

We’re starting to measure every move we make.

And Mary Meekler gave this statistic before the release of the Fitbit Force. 

There are still too many low-paying jobs in the world.

Read more about it. 

There’s a huge chance we’re going to run out of water.

The OECD says groundwater depletion might become the greatest threat to agriculture.

… While other places might flood.

According to the OECD, the economic value of assets at risk from floods is expected to be about $45 trillion by 2050. 

Want to see what other changes are in store?

From cool technology to innovative hiring practices, industries everywhere are transforming how they do business.

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