7. Cluster

Dividing technologies into movements and trends

At this point, the research team has a curated selection of technologies following the project's standards, an d this technologies are the starting point to create innovative narratives. However, to write reliable stories, it is mandatory to not only look at each technology separately, but to associate them with multiple layers across cultural, social, economical and political dimensions.

In order to help our researchers and editors to construct these complex narratives, we've developed a process to organize technologies using clusters. There are two types of clusters in our current methodology:

Trend Clusters

Taxonomic Clusters

Divide technologies by resemblance regarding their industry (e.g: agriculture) or technological field (e.g. Additive Manufacturing).

Divide technologies by the movements they might create in the future, which are affected by political, economic, social and environmental drivers with reflections in the social sphere.

The type of clusters that will be used is determined at the start of the project during the Define phase.

TDB Tutorial

How to divide technologies into different clusters

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