TENDANCE: JWT 80 trends pour 2008

    JWT's list of 80 Things to Watch in 2008, in alphabetical order:

   1.  Africa (foreign investment and development in)
   2.  Antibiotic backlash
   3.  Assisted marriage
   4.  Beijing 2008
   5.  Blue replacing green as the environmental movement's color du jour
   6.  Brain exercises
   7.  British actress Keira Knightley
   8.  Carbon tax
   9.  Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang
   10. Classical musician Gustavo Dudamel
   11. Climate sightseeing
   12. Continuation of comebacks (Indiana Jones, The Cure, etc.)
   13. Cooperative consumption
   14. Couch surfing
   15. Country branding (Oman, Indonesia, etc.)
   16. Designer Phillip Lim
   17. De-teching
   18. DJ Tiesto
   19. DNA-based exercising
   20. E-clutter (and e-clutter consultants)
   21. Eco-fatigue
   22. E-mail etiquette
   23. Facebook suicides
   24. Fashion label Vena Cava
   25. Foreign government investment (e.g., China, UAE) in U.S. companies
   26. French President Nicolas Sarkozy
   27. Game 3.0 (gamer-generated global gaming)
   28. Google's Android
   29. Gossip Girl
   30. Gphone
   31. Green weddings
   32. Higher education online
   33. Hip-hop's Retro Kids
   34. Humbling of the hedge fund manager (anti-excess post sub-prime)
   35. Hybrid taxis
   36. Indian actress Deepika Padukone
   37. Intellectual luxury
   38. Investigating ingredients
   39. Japanese designs (Tsumori Chisato, Uniqlo, Muji, etc.)
   40. Kitchen appliances as new power tools
   41. Lifestyle curators
   42. Lipstick trumping lip gloss
   43. Manga-inspired clothes
   44. Mobile technology explosion
   45. Mobulimia
   46. Music as awareness driver; concerts and other residuals as cash cow
   47. Musicovery (music tailored to moods)
   48. Myanmar
   49. Nollywood (the rise of Nigerian cinema)
   50. Outsourcing to Ukraine (and other Eastern European countries)
   51. Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto
   52. Pantone's 18-3943 (blue iris)
   53. Pets in the office
   54. Prius homes
   55. Radical transparency
   56. Radiohead repeats (name-your-own-price music)
   57. Recycling into fashion (Nau, Gary Harvey, etc.)
   58. Selfless as the new selfish
   59. Sex and the City, the movie
   60. Shiny Toy Guns (the band)
   61. Skiing in novel spots (Kashmir, Japan, Greenland, Russia, Korea,
       etc.)
   62. Single men saying no to sex
   63. Skype sex
   64. Smart Cars in American cities
   65. SNS (social network service) brand communities
   66. Spanish actor Javier Bardem
   67. Staycations
   68. Sturking
   69. Tequila as the new wine
   70. The N-11
   71. Third screen (the mobile screen) rivaling the first screen (TV)
   72. Trans-ertainment
   73. U.S. gymnast Shawn Johnson
   74. U.S. presidential election
   75. Vicarious consumption
   76. (Video) Gaming Olympics
   77. Virtual gifting
   78. Wannabe young Internet entrepreneurs (a.k.a. Mark Zuckerberg
       copycats)
   79. Weak dollar/strong euro
   80. Women juggling men

Source : Yahoo! Finance