FROM 2008 TO 2025
In 2007, Denise Chiavetta and her team of researchers at Social Technologies conducted a virtual focus group of experts in technology, innovation, and business strategy. The group included experts from the Association of Professional Futurists, Tekes, Duke University, Hasbro, Worldwatch, General Motors, Shell, Johnson Controls, and Oxford University, among others. Their musings on the future were consolidated into a list of the top 12 areas for innovation by 2025

1. Personalised medicine With the initial mapping of the human genome, scientists are moving rapidly toward the following likely breakthroughs for gene-based products and services:
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Industrial Focus January/February 2008