The Future Industries
Why innovation keeps failing, and what it will take to build systems that last.
Most innovation keeps failing because it’s optimizing the wrong system. We’ve built extraordinary capacity to extract value from existing models, and very little capacity to build new ones. The result is a widening gap between the scale of the challenges we face and the quality of the solutions we’re funding.
The Future Industries examines five domains where that gap is largest, and where the opportunity is most significant: Care, Prosperity, Justice, Infrastructure, and Society. In each domain, the old model is producing diminishing returns. In each domain, a new generation of ventures is building differently.
This report is not a prediction of the future. It’s an argument for where to build now, and why operating within real-world constraints, ecological, social, and economic, produces stronger, more resilient outcomes than the growth-at-all-costs model it’s replacing.
This is the first part of our foundational series. It covers the why and the where of modern innovation. For the how, read our companion guide: The Innovation System.
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