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25 July 2024

Boeing Boeing … Gone!

Earlier today, Wall Street woke up to a shock, and we can just imagine how many investment bankers and fund...

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Boeing Boeing … Gone!

Earlier today, Wall Street woke up to a shock, and we can just imagine how many investment bankers and fund...

Futureworld launches European office

We are excited to announce the recent launch of our expanded European presence with the opening of our Amsterdam office....

Battle of the bots!

No, it’s not a cage fight between Elon and Zuck. It’s not even a boxing match between RoboElon and AutoZuck....

Watch: Futureworld launches office in Europe

Video highlights of the launch event at Chateau Amsterdam.

Waterfront Properties: Gambling on Climate Change

Donald Johnson waited, the gavel raised, and as the bell rang, he banged it down firmly several times to wild...

Plastic is fantastic

Since China became the world’s largest supplier – by far – of plastic for packaging and containers, the price of...

Marry up! The clock is ticking

Andy Rawlings looked past the priest at his bombshell wife-to-be. His heart beat a little faster. He had found Malina...

Drowning in lithium batteries

For the last seven years, there’s been a rush to build more and more ‘Gigafactories’ to supply the seemingly insatiable...

Boeing Boeing … Gone!

Earlier today, Wall Street woke up to a shock, and we can just imagine how many investment bankers and fund...

Futureworld launches European office

We are excited to announce the recent launch of our expanded European presence with the opening of our Amsterdam office....

Battle of the bots!

No, it’s not a cage fight between Elon and Zuck. It’s not even a boxing match between RoboElon and AutoZuck....

Watch: Futureworld launches office in Europe

Video highlights of the launch event at Chateau Amsterdam.

Waterfront Properties: Gambling on Climate Change

Donald Johnson waited, the gavel raised, and as the bell rang, he banged it down firmly several times to wild...

Plastic is fantastic

Since China became the world’s largest supplier – by far – of plastic for packaging and containers, the price of...

Marry up! The clock is ticking

Andy Rawlings looked past the priest at his bombshell wife-to-be. His heart beat a little faster. He had found Malina...

Drowning in lithium batteries

For the last seven years, there’s been a rush to build more and more ‘Gigafactories’ to supply the seemingly insatiable...

Get certified tonight!

For hundreds of years, we have relied on tuition and training, apprenticeships, internships, mentoring, and coaching to impart new skills...

Provocative Scenarios 2024

We know you can’t predict the future – but you can identify signals and develop scenarios that might play out...

Say goodbye to Gen AI

The tech industry was looking decidedly mundane and mature almost a decade ago. Phones were hotter than laptops and servers...

Circular economy in a tailspin

The circular economy has been a marvelous modern-day invention, overcoming productive society’s two biggest problems in one fell swoop: How...

Space economy takes off

In the three years since SpaceX successfully launched and landed their giant Starship rocket, the space industry has literally exploded...

Bits are in pieces

While fashion operates in cycles, technology inevitably moves forward. Copper wires gave way to glass fibre, landlines were replaced by...

The Business of Education goes bust

Once regarded as the pinnacle of innovation and new thinking, universities across the world held a position of power and...

Hey Doc, I need an upgrade

Wheng Fei ran his finger down the list of markers on the small slip. Blood pressure’s okay, blood glucose’s good,...

Power struggle: Crypto vs Chatbots

During the energy crisis of 2022, analysts were quick to point out that crypto mining, especially bitcoin, consumes as much...

The future is never urgent

A message from our now-retired founder Wolfgang Grulke that was as prescient twelve years ago as it is today.

Zero carbon, zero cost

Ahmad wipes the sweat from his brow, having just installed another solar farm under the scorching Jakarta sun. As a...

Life’s a gas no longer 

When climate concerned biochemists were looking for ways to reduce potent greenhouse gasses, they developed bacteria that could curtail methane...

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