META Trends
The Most Overlooked Anti-Trends Report
What we should be talking more about according to +130 cultural researchers
February 2026
The META Trending Trends: 02026
An Analysis of 70+ Global Trend Forecasts → 9 Most Reported Social Shifts
February 2025
The META Trending Trends: 02025
An Analysis of 70+ Global Trend Forecasts → 13 Most Reported Social Shifts
January 2024
The META Trending Trends: 02024
An Analysis of 70+ Global Trend Forecasts → 14 Most Reported Social Shifts
Backcasting Insights From 7 Years of META Trends
A breakdown of observations from years of META Trend Reports
February 2023
Reflections & FAQs Re: META Trends
Contemplations around common questions and open inquiries
January 2023
The META Trending Trends: 02023
An Analysis of 50+ Global Trend Forecasts → 16 Most Reported Social Shifts
August 2022
A_Framework_To: Find Overlooked & De-bias Trends
Part III: 4X Questions to Find the Edges
July 2022
How To Spot Trends with AI
Part II: Discovering Overlooked Social Shifts
Using AI To Quantify & Size META Trends
Part I: AI vs. Human Rankings
February 2022
Learnings from Five Years of Analyzing Hundreds of Trend Reports
After half a decade of the Meta Trends exercise, Sarah DaVanzo and I identified patterns and applicable lessons.
January 2022
The META Trending Trends: 02022
An Analysis of 40+ Global Trend Forecasts → 14 Most Reported Social Shifts