Q1 2026 will reward businesses tied to real demand drivers like AI infrastructure, energy reliability, logistics, healthcare access, and compliance. This edition maps high-potential business bets across major world regions, split into small, medium, and large opportunity bands, including portability signals and risk tags to guide execution.
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For decades, development has been measured by ranking countries against one another. This article argues that such comparisons are no longer viable—and proposes universal, non-comparative benchmarks grounded in planetary boundaries, human dignity, and adaptive capacity as a new foundation for global progress.
The Global Ocean Institute is a bold proposal for a NASA-scale organization dedicated to ocean exploration, climate resilience, and long-term planetary stewardship—transforming humanity’s relationship with the sea.
The Virtual United Nations is a practical blueprint for updating global governance for the digital age. It outlines how mobile-first participation, stakeholder-driven design, and strong anti-capture safeguards can make international cooperation faster, more inclusive, and more resilient.
This Business Idea Scout Chronicle analyzes which agentic AI companies are likely to survive and scale over the next five years, and which face consolidation or failure.
This Business Idea Scout Chronicle identifies unglamorous service businesses in NYC that deliver strong margins, predictable demand, and clear scaling paths.