1. 2010 figure: The World Bank, World Development Indicators – Internet users (per 100 people) [Data file] retrieved from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2; 2020 projection: Cisco, VNI Complete Forecast (2015-2020) retrieved from: www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/service-provider/vni-complete-forecast/infographic.html
3. Douglas A. Irwin, ‘The Truth About Trade’ – www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-06-13/truth-about-trade
4. Forrester, “The Future of Jobs, 2025: Working Side By Side With Robots”
5. www.pwc.co.uk/issues/megatrends/technological-breakthroughs.html
7. Carlota Perez, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (2002); Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (1991)
8. EY, “The upside of disruption: Megatrends shaping 2016 and beyond” (2016)
9. www.pwc.co.uk/issues/megatrends/demographic-and-social-change.html
10. www.100resilientcities.org
11. www.pwc.co.uk/issues/megatrends/demographic-and-social-change.html
12. www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/economy/the-world-in-2050.html
13. PWC, “The World in 2050” (Feb, 2015) – Projection based on GDP at purchasing power parities
14. www.oecd.org/dev/44457738.pdf
15. China: McKinsey Global Institute, “The China Effect on Global Innovation” (Oct, 2015), South Korea: http://thediplomat.com/2016/05/k-culture-diplomacy-from-sao-paulo-to-tehran/
16. apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/254678/1/WHO-FWC-IHE-17.01-eng.pdf
17. www.arcadis.com/en/global/our-perspectives/sustainable-cities-index-2016/
20. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002
21. spotlight.ipsos-na.com/index.php/news/its-nativism-explaining-the-drivers-of-trumps-popular-support/
22. See Hans Rosling interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vr6Q77lUHE
24. www.torbenrick.eu/blog/change-management/12-reasons-why-people-resist-change/
25. www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3817/Perceptions-are-not-reality-what-the-world-gets-wrong.aspx The media play a role here. According to Professor Graham Davey of the University of Sussex, “…when you show people negative news stories, as opposed to positive or neutral ones, they grow more anxious, and rate their own personal problems as significantly more problematic”. See www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/02/how-to-be-happy-when-the-news-is-bad-brexit-trump-oliver-burkeman
26. ‘The Danger of Deconsolidation’, Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, Journal of Democracy, July 2016
28. www.economist.com/news/briefing/21709291-why-canada-still-ease-openness-last-liberals
29. www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/publications/1817/Ipsos-Views-The-Perils-of-Perception.aspx
30. www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3664/Perils-of-Perception-2015.aspx
31. www.invespcro.com/blog/global-online-retail-spending-statistics-and-trends/
32. www.hubbub.co.uk
33. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm
34. www.androidheadlines.com/2017/03/google-gives-advertisers-control-youtube-backlash.html
35. Source: eMarketer, 2016
36. www.wired.com/2010/10/1027hotwired-banner-ads/
37. Marketing in a Digital Age: Binet and Field
38. Figures rebased to match markets included in 2014 report only
39. What Marketers misunderstand about online reviews, Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen, HBR Jan-Feb 2014
40. en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/post-truth
41. www.ipa.co.uk/Framework/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=9225 & Ipsos brand tracking data
42. www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp
43. www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/7gchp/track2/en/
44. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15534510500181459
45. esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_WPP_2015.pdf
47. Willetts, D. (2010). “The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future – And Why They Should Give it Back”
48. www.google.co.uk/search?q=millennial+memes
49. www.people-press.org/2015/09/03/most-millennials-resist-the-millennial-label/
50. Note, as always, that correlation does not imply causation.
51. www.esrc.ac.uk/about-us/50-years-of-esrc/50-achievements/the-easterlin-paradox/
53. orca.cf.ac.uk/94652/1/Cardiff_University_Plastic_Bag_Report_A4%20(final%20proof).pdf