What’s on the horizon for 2025? From the emergence of energy islands to translating the language of plants, Nesta’s Future Signals is your essential guide to the innovations and ideas set to shape the year ahead.
Based on cutting-edge data, expert insights and real-world observations, Future Signals highlights developments that could drive profound societal change. These insights will help anticipate challenges, uncover opportunities and inform innovative solutions to pressing global problems.
At our first ever Future Signals event we dived into our annual collection of transformative trends, heard from the experts who curated them and explored our Signals gallery – with guests casting their vote in answer to the critical question: which Signal will have the biggest impact on society in 2025?
The evening reception featured an interactive and immersive experience, showcasing the cutting-edge ideas.
Could energy islands be the gateway to a clean energy future, or will mounting costs sink their appeal?
Tailored, expert parenting advice is one tap away. Is this the year it will reach parents who could benefit from it, but can’t afford to pay for it?
After a decade in the wilderness, play is about to rocket up the political and policy agenda in England.
Many Brits eat out regularly and tend to eat less healthily when they do. Could public diners help to provide balanced diets and more?
Scientists have made big strides in understanding how plants communicate with each other. Could this help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges?
The race to find space resources is on. But who gets to decide how they are used?
How do we get the most out of scientific research? Metascience could provide the answers.
We’re getting closer to sharing our world with humanoid robots - which raises the question of what human-robot etiquette should look like.