Over the next decade, a new generation will enter the workforce. This is a generation that has been shaped by lifelong mobile connectivity, large-scale institutional shifts, widespread refugee migration, and first-hand experience of climate instability. It is also a generation that is coming of age in a global economy of mostly borderless markets, of global reputation platforms, and in many locations, nearly unbridled optimism for the future.
In the summer of 2018, Institute for the Future, with support from Mohammed bin Salman Foundation “Misk“, the Misk research team collated research findings about the global future skills as captured in this report.