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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

However, by 2025, these same sectors could generate over half of all overall sales in these sectors – a potential revenue opportunity worth $335bn. The UK’s 'slice of the pie' could be worth around $15bn (or £9bn) in 2025.

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Automation Makes Things Cheaper, So Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?

Harvard Business

Blu-ray and DVD sales have suffered declines of more than 10% for the last two years. Brian Arthur, in his article on the Second Economy , or what he now calls the autonomous economy, estimated that, by 2025, autonomous production would produce goods and services equal to the country’s GNP in 1995, about $7.5

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