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10 predictions for 2016

Our list of the trends, social movements and technological breakthroughs we believe will impact our lives over the next year.

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In 2016 we’ll see healthcare professionals prescribe video games to their patients, boutique food producers take on the supermarkets and the emergence of new challenge-driven universities which harness the collective problem solving capabilities of the world’s students.

We hope you enjoy this year’s list - Nesta’s fifth series of forecasts for the year ahead. You can read more about why we publish our list every year in our reflections on half a decade of predictions and find out what happened at our evening of discussion on the 2016 list.

Recap on our 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012 lists, and read our round-up of how accurate last year's predictions were.

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10 predictions for 2016

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10 predictions for 2016

Retail starts to perform

Universal basic income moves into beta

The sticky and sweet future of food hacking

Small food gets big

Patients become citizen scientists

Audio tech makes more than music

Locking the cyber backdoor

Computer games that heal you

Challenge-driven universities to solve global problems

The titans of the sharing economy meet their match

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