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Martin Kruse

Martin Kruse

Theologian

Oct 13, 2026

4:37
And Martin, can you explain the, the origin of megatrends and, and how we should think of, of megatrends as a, as a method or a tool?
4:47
Well, I, I think there's different ori- uh, origins.
4:50
Um, the term itself, of course, comes from Nesbit, and what he was looking at is shifts that's gonna define the world, right? So it's-- So he called it trends, but actually it's shifts.
5:03
So it's from a position A to a position B. Um, and they're actually from-- they're actually all kinds of, of changes at very different levels.
5:17
So from, uh, globalization, it could also s- be decentralization of certain sectors and so forth.
5:24
So, uh, so they were extremely broad, and they were ill-defined.
5:28
Uh, whereas if you go back to Herman Kahn, you actually get a, a better sense of these long-term developments that, uh, that Nesbit was actually talking about in his definition.

32 MINS LATER

37:11
Yeah.

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