Trend Updates

The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, organised a panel discussion on "The End of Consumption" at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Here are the key statements from the panel.

Smartphone replaces spatula: "Prepared food" is booming. We want to get our food quickly and easily. Delivery and similar distribution still cost considerably more than home-cooked food. But that will change soon, writes researcher Christine Schäfer in a GDI study.

Are protest movements emerging in Social Media? Are they a foundation for anger and fear? Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Director of Research of the Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, examined the questions.

2019 protests took place all over the world: from Hong Kong to India, the Middle East, Africa and Europe to North, Central and South America. The reasons vary. In the run-up to European Trend Day, an exclusive graphic by the GDI provides an overview of where and when protests took place

Kaiser Kuo’s "Sinica Podcast" is the leading English language podcast on current issues in the People's Republic. In this preliminary interview for the 16th European Trend Day, the expert talks about consumption and boycott in the People's Republic.

The future of energy beckons with a seductive vision: a digital world of electrification and abundance replaces the industrial world of oil and scarcity. But what will be needed in such a society the day after tomorrow?

Which tasks will be taken over by the state, the market or civil society? An infographic provides an overview.

In the era of abundance, social hierarchies change. This chart of a recent GDI study illustrates the differences between social classes in a digitized future.

A new social media app is conquering the world. Chinese short video platform Tiktok is currently experiencing a large, but also controversial media presence. The GDI has collected usage figures for Switzerland.

Today, one thing above all is expected of politicians: quick solutions to problems. Especially in uncertain times, we lose patience, says Matthias Sutter, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. In an interview on the Academy of Behavioral Economics, he explains why excessive impatience can be harmful.