For this year’s summer review of the Daily Sketch in collaboration with our Multi-Thematic strategy team, we took a step back to look at the bigger picture of the trends shaping the world around us. As the recent accelerated pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development demonstrates, Transforming Technologies continue to evolve with implications for nearly every business and sector of the economy. Changing Sociodemographics – defined by slowing birth rates, longer lifespans, rising emerging market incomes, and increased urbanization – represent tremendous shifts for people, governments, businesses and markets. With atmospheric temperatures reaching new records and extreme weather events occurring more frequently despite readily available climate solutions, the necessity of Preserving Earth has garnered broader support.
