Observed arrival · 2026-09-02
NextProblems: A Field Guide to Problems Before They Become Obvious
NextProblems tracks emerging problems created by technological, economic, and societal change, then researches and scores each one.
Field notes
The corpus spans 15 categories, including AI, climate, cybersecurity, education, finance, healthcare, privacy, robotics, and work. Homepage entries expose lifecycle labels, severity, opportunity, confidence, emergence period, and update date; the displayed high-stakes set requires both severity and confidence of at least 7.5. The methodology keeps observation, evidence, prediction, and opportunity separate, and the project reports 59 dated signals, 78 cited sources, and 53 counterarguments.
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