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Figure 1. Countries included in the study

Sources that were used for scraping are:

Online Newspapers Magazines Blogs Forums Twitter Other
Social
News Media

Apart from Germany, the main source was Twitter. One year’s worth of
data was extracted from the platform for each country. All data was published
online between September 4, 2017 00:00:00 GMT+1 and September 2, 2018
23:59:59 GMT+1.

Construction of the “Future of Knowledge Model”

Figure 2. The "Future of Knowledge Model"

We first created five Future Field Readiness Indices corresponding to the
five future fields of knowledge:
• Four Technology Readiness Indices, corresponding to the four key
technologies for the future i.e. AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain and
Biotechnology; and
• The Future Skills Readiness Index.

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