Dunedin's economic future has been worrying the city's brightest minds since the end of the gold rush.

The last few years have brought the subject back to centre stage, as the last vestiges of our manufacturing base have flirted with extinction.

With those issues in mind, a team from the University of Otago has been peering into an academic crystal ball to see what business might look like in 50 years' time.

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