1. Extreme Future of Energy
Dr. James Canton
CEO & Chairman
GlobalFuturist.com

2. Are you Future-Ready
Strategic Foresight
What is your Vision?

3. Institute for Global Futures
WE TRACK TRENDS
• Think Tank
• Advise Global Fortune
1000 & Gov

4. Institute for Global Futures

5. Institute for Global Futures

6. Worldwide Clients

7. Key Ideas
• nergy demand drivers
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• nergy is core to security and
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economic sustainability
• uture of bio-fuels
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• etro-Risk
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• op geopolitical risks
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8. NeuroWeb: Thinking Network
Welcome to the
Extreme Future

9. Extreme Future: More Risk More
Opportunity
 Multi-polar World
A
of Complex Risks

10. Disruptive Risk is New Normal

11. Extreme Future: Complex Threats

12. Top Global Risks: 2025
• Energy
• Economy
• Food
• Ecology
• Security
• War

13. 2020 Forecast: Energy-Challenged
World

14. Global Population
Global Population has Doubled
Over the Past 45 Years

15. Global Population Trend
By 2040, 80% of World’s 8 Billion People will
Live in Developing Nations—9 Billion by 2050

16. The New Consumers: 1 Bn +

17. Two Worlds Challenge: Energy

18. Next Two Billion Energy Consumers

19. Global Megacities
The World of 2025 10 Megacities Most in
China, India and S. America

20. By 2030: Most mega-cities in
developing world

21. Next Middle Class: China, India, Latin

23. World GDP 2030: China Rising
27.8%
7.2%
18% 25%
22%
World GDP: 85,500 Trillion in 2030
Free World Academy 2003

24. China Scenarios: New Superpower,
Huge Market, Fierce Competitor

25. China will be the World’s Largest
Consumer Market in Future
• 2nd Largest Consumer of Energy
• 3rd Largest Importer of Oil

26. China & India Population
China & India Make Up 1/3 of the Global
Population – Biggest Food Demand

27. India will be the 2nd World’s
Largest Consumer Market in
The Future

28. Largest Global Market
A Dynamic Global Marketplace with 3
Billion New Consumers is Coming Fast,
Will You be Ready?

29. Energy Security: Terrorism/Crime

30. 2025 Energy Future Map

31. The Extreme Future of Energy Trends
1. Pop growth
2. Next Middle Class
3. GDP
5. Security

32. The Extreme Future: 10 Top trends
6. Fast Climate Change
7. Green Alternatives
8. Geopolitical Risk
9. Food & Water Stress
10. Unstable Economics

33. Uptrend Consumer Demand

34. Are you Future-Ready?

35. High Petro-Geopolitical Risk

36. Are you Future-Ready? CO2 2030

37. 2020 US Emissions: Power Plants

38. 2080 Reduction in Ag Prod

39. Are you Future-Ready?

40. Innovation Drives Competitive
Advantage

41. Innovate or Die
Key Biz Driver: Innovation Darwinism

42. Fast Breakthroughs Coming

43. Digital Biology: Hacking Life
Extreme Future: Hacking Life

44. New Fuels:
Hacking Matter

45. Future Energy Mix

46. Wind Power Capacity

47. Extreme Future: HackingPlanet
Digitally Hacking the Planet

48. BioFuels Smart Grid: Ethanol Core

49. Space Based Solar

50. Mars Station

51. NanoBioNeuro Enhancement

52. NanoBioNeuro Enhancement

53. Mars Station

54. Mars Station

55. GRID Computing: Flexible
On-Demand, High-Performance
Virtual, Distributed Communications
Source: Dietmar Erwin, “UNICORE and EUROGRID: Grid Computing in Europe,”
EUROGRID and UNICORE

56. Space: The Next Frontier

57. Summary
 io-Energy
B infrastructure is the future
 dvanced
A bio-fuels will protect
America’s future economy & security
 etro-Risk
P is geopolitical risk
 lternative
A energy non-C02 is key
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 Sustainable Future with oil/gas

58. GlobalFuturist.com
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