mobility

There are already 1.2 billion A/C units pumping cool air into people’s homes, and that number is on track to reach 4.5 billion by 2050; energy demand is expected to triple in the same amount of time. It’s a vicious…

What’s the best place to work? Twenty-five years ago, it might have been a shiny office with a fully stocked canteen for an always-on and always-in-the-office workforce. Cut to today, and the digital era has made mobility a quality today’s…

The smartphone though has become an extension of ourselves. It goes pretty much wherever we do. There are probably three things most of us leave the house with every day – keys, wallet or purse and our phone. And, thanks…

Modern mobility proponents seek perpetual motion, too, using both established forms of transit and new ones: ride sharing, free-floating bikes and scooters, and more Read moe in BCG Seeking Perpetual Motion with Mobility as a Service By Joël Hazan ,…

A few decades ago, AI was the stuff of science fiction novels, movies, and television shows. A fantasy. A figment of an overactive imagination. Isaac Asimov. Star Trek. The Terminator.But now? AI is already here or has been for quite…

Some 1.7 billion people around the world lack access to basic financial services such as a bank or mobile money account. Digital financial services have the potential to bring this population, concentrated in developing countries, into the financial system—giving them…

After years of phone sales stagnating, manufacturers are starting to experiment with new design elements, user experiences, and even new phone shapes. This experimentation got underway at the end of 2018 and is about to bloom in full force on…

Traditional approaches to solving mobility problems—adding roads and transit lines—are not sustainable, primarily because of concerns related to climate change, public health, and funding. Hence the interest in new technology-powered forms of mobility: ride sharing, free-floating bikes, autonomous electric vehicles,…

If you attach a new, postage-stamp-size wearable to your forehead before you sleep at night, the device can help tell you if you have sleep apnea–the disorder that can make you stop breathing repeatedly as you sleep, making you tired…

Mobile commerce, or m-commerce, revenue worldwide has increased from $184 billion in 2014 to a projected $669 billion by the end of this year. Combine that with the fact that as of 2016, according to Actinic, 86% of UK digital…