Horizon Maps

The Futurity Science Horizon Maps provide multiple lenses to depict the relative maturity and readiness of topics, using innovation frameworks you're familiar with. They help you plan and prioritize complex, fast-changing fields.

Horizon maps help you to:

Depict maturity of topics.

The Futurity Science Horizon Maps provide multiple lenses to depict the relative maturity and readiness of topics, using innovation frameworks you’re familiar with. They help you plan and prioritize complex, fast-changing fields.

Multiple horizon lenses

Choose your best visualisation method.

Future Horizons

The future horizons plots innovations by maturity, from initial inspiration to obsolescence and oblivion. See how ideas proceed through imagination, science, engineering, and business.

Innovation Funnel

The classic New Product Development funnel, in which new ideas are successively filtered down from initial identification to market launch.

Timeline

Linear plots comparing when various technologies entered the market.

Futures Cone

The futurist’s favorite depiction of time and probability, where the range of possible ideas and events increases as time goes on.

Strategy Matrix

Plots ideas and events by probability and impact. Based on the position, actions include: Strategic Priority, Monitor Closely, Tactical Actions and Ignore for Now.

Pace Layers

Inspired by Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers framework, graphs the speed of change of various ideas, and their stabilizing or innovating effect on one another.

Smart datapoints

Dive deeper.

All Futurity Science Horizon maps are build from the same data. Each node indicates an idea’s:

  • maturity (x position)
  • taxonomy category (y position)
  • impact (size)
  • probability (opacity)
  • desirability (color: green = desirable; gray = neutral; red = undesirable)
  • type (hexagon = technological innovation; diamond = social innovation; circle = scenario or other event)

The datapoints are clickable, so you can jump to a more detailed explanation in the corresponding Notebook, or external site.