Student Scenarios

Since 1996 post graduate MBA students have published scenarios on the future of the information society online as part of Daniel Erasmus's class on scenario thinking at the various business schools in the world. These more than 60 scenarios sets of which a selection is listed below and form a unique record of thinking of how the perceptions of the information society evolved from a new technology, boom and bust. Many of the predictions, controvercial at their time, have proven to be accurate in retrospect. At moments that Daniel Erasmus is teaching a class on scenario thinking, you will also find scenarios in process of construction on this site.

If you have been involved in some of the processes, please add to this page to refect on how thinking in scenarios aided your decisionmaking since developing the scenarios.

Student scenarios in process

In this section you will find the scenarios where this year students are working on now. Please don't edit if you are not on the project. But you are more than welcome to comment on them!

There are no student scenarios in process at this moment.

Student scenarios from previous years

Here the finished student scenarios from 1996 onward can be found, divided by content categories. The same scenarios can be found divided by the years in which they were made in Student Scenarios by Year.

The Future of Software Development 2010 (2005)
Anyone will agree that software development in general is going to change.
But how? And what will be the consequences?

The Future of the Internet in China 2015 (2005)
With the quick technology development and the joining to the WTO, China faces both an opportunity and a challenge in the Internet industry. So what will the development of internet in China be in the coming 10 years?

The Future of Console Based Games 2010 (2005)
The gaming industry is changing. A heavy war is going on between the big players to become the market leader. This influences the future of the console based games. This heavy competition speed up changes. But how will this end? Will the concept of console based games remain the same or will this competition bring other alternitives which give the concept of console game another meaning?

LIACS ICT in Business 2005

Energy scenarios - Running out of energy and creating it?
Pharmaceutical industry scenarios - A health check or a healthy cheque?
Banking in future - Some ideas on why some may be laughing all the way to the bank...
ICT outsourcing scenarios - Insourcing creativity or dependency?

Information Society

The Future of WiFi 2010 (2005)

The Future of GRID computing 2015 (2005)

Internet in 2015 (2004)RSM Full time MBA Class 2004

the information society 2005 (1998)

ideas 2020 (1997)

relationships 2020 (1997)

distance education 2011 (1996)

crime 2015 (1997)

Internet Commerce

free internet service provision 2003 (1996)

electronic cash 2006 (1996)