50 promising global opportunity in future sectors

Dubai Future Foundation has launched the fourth annual version of “Report of Future Opportunities: 50 Global Opportunities”, bringing the total number of future opportunities, since the launch of the report, to 200 opportunities that can generate more than 1,000 implemented ideas in various fields, economic, societal, technological and legal, and the report this year also addresses the 10 most major global trends, which will positively affect the quality of the life of societies and the development of sectors and economies, And strengthening the performance of governments worldwide during the coming years and contracts, and these trends are based on important and varied indicators, such as the expansion of communication networks of the sixth generation, the acceleration of artificial intelligence, the development of energy technologies, and the increase in dependence on robots and drones.

The 50 opportunities mentioned in the report are distributed among five main axes, including health, nature and sustainability, enabling societies, improving systems and future innovations, and the report was prepared in cooperation with the partners of the Dubai Future Foundation and dozens of international experts from various governmental, private, academic and research agencies around the world.

Inspiring ideas

The Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Vice -Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Managing Director of the Dubai Future Foundation, Mohamed Abdullah Al -Garqawi, stressed that this annual report represents an invitation to collective work and enhance effective partnerships to provide the world inspiring visions and innovative solutions that support individuals, institutions and governments in transforming future opportunities into concrete achievements.

He said: «We aim, through presenting these future opportunities and inspiring ideas to support the global anticipation system and open new horizons to design the best possible future, as the vision unites work, imagines implementation, and aspiration for reality, to draw together the features of a world that flourishes with the solidarity of efforts and the creativity of minds, and we continue the march of growth and prosperity at the global level.

He added: «We live in an era filled with rapid changes and unprecedented opportunities, and what distinguishes countries that are able to keep pace with the future is their constant readiness to innovate and adapt, and their daring to take real steps that respond to the needs of the present and look forward to tomorrow’s requirements.

Promising opportunities in the health sector

The “Future Opportunities Report: 50 Global Opportunities” offers many important opportunities in the fields of mental and physical health, the latest innovations, discoveries and aspirations to prolong the expected life, by employing science, technology and nature, and creating new therapeutic methods that suit individuals and societies everywhere.

One of the most important health opportunities presented by the report in this field, will we succeed in stopping aging? Will the era of treatment with antibiotics end soon? Is it possible to analyze patient breathing to diagnose and treat diseases? Can we deliver the medicine to the targeted cells and not others inside the body and without complications? Is it possible to benefit from sports medicine in improving public health policies?

The future of nature and sustainability

The report aims through the opportunities in the axis of nature and sustainability, to discuss new ideas that contribute to reducing environmental risks to the lowest extent possible, and enhances the benefit of nature’s ability to restore itself, and supports natural environmental systems and the citizen of living organisms, which contributes to the stability of the planet and makes it a healthy environment for everyone.

The report raised many important questions related to this axis, including: How does technology help us to enjoy and interconnect more? How can we enhance the biological diversity in city gardens? How do we benefit from the wealth that is wasted in fishing waste? Will we succeed in replacing lithium batteries with safer and sustainable options? What if we were able to remove pollutants from ocean water and lakes using ultrasound? What if the depths of the seas become a source of clean energy enough for the movement of ships?

Empowering societies

The “future opportunities report: 50 global opportunities” seeks, through a set of future opportunities to enable societies by providing appropriate solutions for their priority needs, improving the systems that depend on them, protecting them from the risks that may weaken them in the face of crises, and support individual and group capabilities in order to achieve more growth and development.

Among the most prominent future opportunities that the report tried to answer within this axis: Will we have a robot’s work colleagues and trust them? When will we start adopting innovative methods to measure the quality of human life? Will desalination become easier, faster and cleaner? Can electronic games be useful for health? Is it possible to create a global investment fund to create solutions to humanitarian challenges in the long run?

Systems improvement

The opportunities that this axis address aims to improve and develop systems with the aim of increasing their effectiveness and flexibility in supporting services and solutions at various levels of business, governments and societies, and from the questions posed in this axis: When will scientific and academic publications be easily available to everyone? And when will a new classification be adopted to arrange the best countries in the world? When will the traditional concept of intellectual property develop? Can we determine a suitable mixture of energy according to the weather conditions? Will the new material discoveries help create sustainable cooling solutions?

Future innovations

This axis deals with a number of opportunities aimed at highlighting the ability of humanity to radically change life methods, by changing the models according to states, societies and individuals, and supporting the empowerment of individuals and societies to encourage innovation and improvement, and then develop these societies to live in digital and non -digital worlds.

The report reviewed important questions in the field of future innovations, including: Will we be able to reach Mars in just hours? Will the ground thermal energy become more reliable for energy? What is the future of self -manufacturing products? Will we see universities without specific years soon? Are we closer to enjoying longer and healthier space trips? What if we have an endless source of clean and safe energy? How will communication applications between the brain and computer convert our lives and our capabilities to face challenges together?

Muhammad al -Qarqawi:

• The report represents a call for team work and enhancing effective partnerships, to support individuals, institutions and governments in converting future opportunities into tangible achievements.

• Future opportunities, and new inspiring ideas, within the report, support the global anticipation system and open new horizons to design the best possible future.