Testimonial for MiG Scenario Stories from Dr. Kent Thorén, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
“The MiG Scenario Stories presents future-oriented research and storytelling from Aalto University’s Mobile is Global project. Grounded in research, expert interviews, and structured foresight methodology the report helps readers see beyond linear forecasts to understand how political, economic, and social dynamics might interact in unexpected ways. It presents a rare combination of analytical depth, structured imagination, and academic precision. The narratives are carried by well-crafted scenarios that explore how Europe’s technological sovereignty and global politics might shape the development of 5G and 6G networks by 2030.
The report balances insight with accessibility very well. Each of the four scenarios — New Threat Awaits, Europe’s Prometheus, Frog in a Pot, and From Bad to Worse — paints an interesting picture of a plausible future for Europe. For each scenario, a timeline of key events helps make the end-state picture logical.
What makes this publication particularly valuable is the supplementary material accompanying the scenario stories. In addition to the narrative explorations, the book includes detailed sections outlining likely winners and losers, early signs of transitions, and scenario-specific indicative market forecasts. These provide practical planning and decision support for policy and technology strategists. The forecasts for the mobile network business and the distribution of users across 4G, 5G, and 6G generations, for example, give readers a concrete baseline for how technological adoption and investment patterns might evolve under different geopolitical conditions. These geopolitical developments, include toles played by global actors like the USA, China, and Russia, giving realism and relevance to the scenarios.
Overall, MiG Scenario Stories is a very insightful and intellectually rich publication. It succeeds both as an analytical foresight exercise and as a work of narrative imagination. There refreshing lack of “fuzziness”, in which data and expert perspectives are integrated, it equips decision makers to think critically about uncertainty and opportunity in Europe’s technological future. It is a model example of how scenario work can illuminate complexity while remaining engaging, credible, and useful.”