Meaning of gigatrend | Babel Free

Definitions

A very major trend.

Examples

“Gigatrends: The Boundary Conditions of Modern Life and their Formation”

“An evolutionary gigatrend is far more basic and decisive than any trend currently known to managers and economists, including the megatrends popularized by John Naisbitt in the 1980s.”

“Certainly, e-government is such a gigatrend[…] being just one of the myriad of evident, tangible ways that the Internet is changing relationships between individuals, businesses, and the government.”

“Although many gigatrends are interrelated, they can be discussed is^([sic]) several categories: human populations, ecosystems and forest ecosystems, human economics and technology, and forest technology and management.”

“This gigatrend is based in part on the notion of a society underpinned by a series of dichotomies between values and empirical facts, and between goals and means, etc.”

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