Digitisation

"Social life, health data, consumption: Everything that can be measured will be measured," said Steffen Mau, Professor of Macrosociology, in the webinar "Quantification: Keeping Score in a Metric Society" with GDI researcher Jakub Samochowiec.

If there were winners during the coronavirus lockdown, they were e-commerce platforms and their ecosystems. Klarna is one of these winners. In a video and at the GDI Retail Summit, Klarna’s CMO David Sandström explains what it would look like if Gucci was a payment provider.

From a technical point of view, the future of work has long been here, writes GDI researcher Stefan Breit in an article. Due to the corona pandemic, the mind-shift is now following. Remote is becoming the standard, on-site the exception. An information graphic shows how and where we will work in the future.

People have always suffered illness. Nothing will change that in the near future. What will change is how we deal with it personally. In the future, we will continuously evaluate our health indicators.

Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, surveyed over 1,000 CEOs across six countries to answer questions about CEO effectiveness. At the 8th Academy of Behavioral Economics on 27 January 2021, Sadun will elaborate on what good leadership in pandemic times looks like.

At the moment, travel is out of the question. But what will happen after the pandemic is over? – Smart assistants will change travel in several areas.

Technology should once again become the people’s tool, not its enemy. This was the essence of Douglas Rushkoff's presentation at the 16th European Trend Day at GDI. This is the video of his contribution.

In the last ten years, there have been more protests than at any time since the sixties. Why? This is one of the most difficult questions in social sciences. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg has an answer.

“We don’t have much consensus on what online privacy actually means, and most of what’s on the table conflicts fundamentally with competition,” writes tech thought leader and GDI speaker Benedict Evans in a blog post.

Pokémon Go or Google Glasses - people in the same room are experiencing different realities, thanks to Augmented Reality. Additional information enriches their environment. What happens next? The GDI study "Digital Corporate Publishing" explores this question.