Bill Gates has been almost prophetic in his past predictions: his 1999 list was hauntingly accurate, foreseeing the advent of price comparison websites, smartphones, social media, and bots. Over the last few years, in interviews and annual letters, he has…
There have been, according to Rifkin, at least seven major economic paradigm shifts in history, and they all share a common denominator–at a moment in time, three defining technologies emerge and then converge to create an infrastructure that fundamentally changes…
Futurists and human resource executives say that our work lives will consist of doing several long-term projects or tasks at once.Instead of identifying your job role or description, you will be constantly adding skills based on what is going to…
When people think of a car, they think of the thing that gets them from one place to the next. New vehicles are being built with an increasing number of sensors. These sensors are not only measuring how the vehicle…
Over a hundred years ago, on February 28, 1909, the first Women’s Day observance was held in New York, organized by the Socialist Party of America. We’ve provided a list below of five women who we believe are helping create a…
The fashion industry has significantly evolved over the last 10 years and emerging trends, such as the evolving store, changing consumer preferences, a heightened need for radical transparency and more, is shifting companies’ priorities and the roles they are hiring…
What are the things that we feel confident will be true, regardless of other forces? Over the past 10 years, those trends have included the rise of social media (we didn’t know Facebook would be the big winner, but we…
The International Union for Conservation of Nature maintains a “red list” of species — a comprehensive global compendium of the conservation status of 85,604 species with the eventual goal of tracking 160,000 species, threatened and not, to create a “barometer…
The main thrust of the pedestrianization movement is that we need to re-think urban planning, and start designing cities for people, not cars. Proponents of pedestrianization say that fewer cars would mean less stress and more effective use of people’s…
what our world will look like in the medium-term ?How we will organise our cities, where we will get our power from, what we will eat, what it will mean to be a refugee?Imagining the societies of tomorrow can give…
