Careers and Consumerism (also see "lifestyles")

• Careers and working patterns

• Consumer habits and spending patterns

• Retirement patterns

• Social Impacts of the economy (throwaway workers, throwaway spouses)

• An economy not based on discontent -- impact on consumerism

• New "ladder of success"

Business and Commerce

• Economics, wealth, and trade

• The next economy – growth or steady state?

• Next-generation utility function (for example, one that captures long-range economic signals – environmental, climatic, socioeconomic polarization – and long-term consequences of near-term choices)

• Economic challenges – demographics, energy costs, trade balance, environment, resources

• New business models and structures

• Community reinvestment vs. geographic wealth concentration

• The next wealth – after land, capital, and information?

• Migration of human capital

• Types and scales of economies that can survive a major disaster

• Business cycles of the future

• What new economy will emerge due to necessity?

• The future of open-source innovation

• The work and business culture of the future – Asian, European, US, or other?

• Long-term sustainable financial excellence, or quick-turn profits?

• Business structures

• The future of venture capital

• Which will dominate business culture – risk aversion or risk taking – and where?

• New concepts of prosperity