Developing Leaders

In 2021, a Dutch supermarket chain, Jumbo, created a special checkout line - it was designed to be slower and give people the opportunity to chat with each other and the cashier. It has received rave reviews, and Jumbo is now rolling it out to all their stores. Part...

As we spend this last week of December battling to remember what day of the week it is, and finally finishing off the leftovers from our Christmas meal, here's a quick thought about food in the future. We will definitely be able to get more and more nutrients from...

We know that smart glasses, which include VR, AR and XR functionality and heads up displays are coming. But what if those glasses could also look back at us, and especially assess our physical and emotional state using biometric feedback from our eyes? TRANSCRIPT This...

We've talked about alternative and green energy solutions before on Throw Forward Thursday (Episode 6 and Episode 24). Today, we look not at the future but at something that happened last week as we got proof that nuclear fusion is possible. We knew it theoretically...

Our weekly series into future trends suggests that we might have dedicated 3D print shops, or maybe 3D printers in local building supplies stores that will be able to print out any 3D design for you overnight. A few decades from now we will probably all have...

This week we imagine a future where restorative justice and rehabilitation takes precedence over retribution and the prison-industrial complex. It's a dream, that doesn't imagine any criminals (we wish), but rather a different way of dealing with them. Throw Forward...

Sometime very soon, we need to change our view of what "old age" looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older people will be happy living in. The simple version is that we need tech-enabled smart homes for seniors. Watch the video for some...

Imagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they're healthier and living longer), where they get grandparent leave from their companies, and where we combine child and senior care in the same facilities. This is a wonderful...

Every day, humans produce 2.4 quintillion bytes of data, and this doubles every two years or so at the moment. Most of this is now stored in "the cloud", which might be invisible to us, but is actually in massive data warehouses all around the world. If this continues...