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Slightly late this week, this is a special edition of ThrowForward Thursday, answering a question sent to us: "Where do you get all your...

Our story starts 20 years, as a fungal infection wiped out the world's frogs. It continues today as we see a resurgence in malaria and...

We all know that the world has a huge problem with water. We don't have enough of it in the places we need it. There are at least three...

I don't know how far into the future we need to go before we find the end of emails, but in my opinion it can't come soon enough. Emails...

More people - especially young people - around the world are choosing not to get married, not to have long-term relationships, not to...

We use sand for pretty much everything we can see around us - including the glass in the screen you're watching this on. And we are...

Now that we can get food delivered to us from any restaurant to anywhere, we don't have to rely on the room service offered to us by the...

Antibiotics changed our world 100 years ago, probably adding about 20 years to average lifespans as we dealt with infections and disease....

Why do we still have rush hour traffic - with EVERYONE trying to get to work and school at the SAME TIME every working day? It's 2022 and...

One of the dumbest things we do in business is force people to retire, simply because they hit a specific date in the calendar, even...

Imagine a world in which we don't eat meat from animals. No, not a world with no meat, but a rather a world where our meat is grown in...

In this mini-series of videos, my mate, Carel Nolte and I talk about the future of investment, the importance of wealth creation and I...

We are all afraid of something, whether it is snakes, spiders, sharks, the dark, heights or something else. Could technology provide...

There are a lot of diamonds in the world - a total of about 6 billion carats (weighing around a million kilograms), with around 140...

Sometime in the 2030s, artificial intelligence-driven algorithms will prove to be better at picking stocks and managing investment funds...

In fact, this would be the end of EVERYTHING. There's an insect apocalypse happening at the moment. All around the world, studies are...

A few days late this week, Throwforward Thursday jumps to the year 2050, where we might have no more cocoa trees in the world. And that...

This week we start a new series about things that are going to end in our lifetimes, and how that will impact the world we live and work...

This is the plan Vladimir Putin is obsessing over. On March 24 1999, in a plane high above the Atlantic, Yevgeni Primakov, the Russian...

Futurists - or scenario planners, if you prefer - cannot predict the future. What we do is ‘intentionally build the capacity to see the...