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Intentionally Opaque Methodologies · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight
Future Today Strategy Group
Tech Trends Report
2021
Claim

Intentionally Opaque Methodologies

Published 2021-03

Publishers Forecast vs actual Side by side

New tools designed to enhance our digital experience instead track us without explicitly showing how or why.

Verdict

persistedThe same trend is listed again within the publisher's next two editions (D33).

Same subject listed again in 2022.

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

The same forecast in other editions

2020rank 82
2021rank 126
2022rank 132

All captured fields

rank: 126
section: Scoring & Recognition
subsection: Recognition / Scoring
subject: Intentionally Opaque Methodologies
page: 110
confidence: high

Permalink

https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2021-126

Cite

Hindsight, claim ftsg-tech-trends-2021-126, persisted as of 2026-10-03. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2021-126

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