Nesta is an innovation charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life and have just published their list of the trends, social movements and technological breakthroughs they believe will impact lives over the next year.
This is the fifth annual prediction series published by Nesta , on the trends, social movements and technology breakthroughs set to impact our lives in the year ahead.
In 2016 cyber security will become a household concern, healthcare professionals will prescribe video games and small food producers will take on the supermarkets armed with better tech and valuable data. Check out this year’s list and find out what has been learnt from half a decade of Nesta predictions.











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