Demography

A crucial factor in the development of any region is creating or increasing social energy. This energy is generated by people exchanging ideas, thoughts and emotions. Using the canton of Schaffhausen as an example, a GDI study shows how regions can benefit from a location in between the countryside and a major city.

Whether people are putting their faith in experts or the populist movement, we are experiencing a lack of shared realities, asserts David Bosshart in an interview. Bosshart is driven by the question of how we achieve so little despite knowing so much.

A world in abundance, where its inhabitants will still have to do without in order to save the planet. Humanities overall goal is carbon neutrality. This is a future scenario from the GDI study "Future Skills".

Which skills will children need to thrive in 2050? What if digital innovation accelerates over the next 30 years? What if machines take over service jobs? The GDI Future Skills study elaborates on four possible scenarios.

What must a digital day labourer be able to do in an uncertain world? Which skills are required?

Robots do most of our work, scarcities are a thing of the past. This is a scenario from the GDI study "Future Skills". What skills will humans need? How will we live together in the future?

The new GDI "Future skills" study outlines four scenarios for the year 2050 and identifies the skills needed for these futures. Will there still be jobs for everyone? And would it be a bad thing if there weren’t?

What is the difference between Brand Purpose and Brand Activism? Helen Job, brand expert, consultant and futurologist, explains in the following interview from the 16th European Trend Day at the GDI.

Are we on the way to a new world order? At the GDI evening event "Robot Capitalism and The Coming World Disorder" the British economist Lord Adair Turner and the political scientist Robert Kagan discussed the influence of robots on the world economy, the strengthening of China and the role of the USA. The panel discussion is now available as a video.

In a globalised world, composed of countries with vastly unequal mean incomes, citizenship has acquired an enormous economic value, argues economist and former GDI guest speaker Branko Milanović in a blogpost.