Towards the third industrial revolution : NEO-CARBON ENERGY project Future Clinique I ”Creating the Third Industrial Revolution” 6.5.2015

Abstract

This report presents the results of ”Creating the Third Industrial Revolution”, a Futures Clinique organised in Ruoholahti, Helsinki May 6, 2015 at Sitra. Futures Clinique is a distinct futures workshop method. The futures clinique was conducted within a research project NEO-CARBON ENERGY and its futures research part “Neo-Carbon Enabling Neo-Growth Society – Transformative Energy Futures 2050”, funded by Tekes.

Around 70 experts participated in the Futures Clinique. The participants included project members, government, business and third sector representatives as well as students. They worked around four tentative scenario sketches until the year 2050 called Radical Startups, Value-driven Techemoths, Green DIY En-gineers and New Consciousness. All of the scenarios are transformative i.e. implying fundamental change and differ more or less radically from the present. The scenario sketches were analysed on a general level and especially with regard to implications for Finland.