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Our news section is for important commentary and news that doesn’t fit under one of our Global Issues. Sometimes we use this space to comment on major current events, and sometimes we use it to cover conferences or share interviews we’ve snapped up. We also share news from our project team here.

 

  • “A lot more bankers should go to Heavy Metal Festivals.”

    Here at futurechallenges.org we usually spare neither trouble nor expense to get you the input of experts, wherever they might want to talk to us … along these lines, please find my interview with Harvard magna cum maude alumnus, former McKinsey- and JP Morgan professional aka the “investment punk” Gerald Hoerhan, author of the bestseller “Investment […]

  • FutureChallenges.org en español

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    This page features a compilation of our Spanish-language content. Enjoy! Dark Red: Spanish is sole official language at the national level Blue: Spanish a co-official language Light Red: Spanish official in sub-national polities By Ichwan Palongengi (Data based on Map-Hispano.png on Wikipedia Project) [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons En búsqueda de […]

  • Measuring the Modern Social Market Economy

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    Cortnie Shupe of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Germany looks at a new tool to assess social market economies. [issuu width=420 height=297 embedBackground=%23000000 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120807093332-5026182177ab479ab1983be900f68c8e name=mmsme_shupe_2012 username=tomfries tag=competition unit=px v=2]

  • “The best way to predict the future is to create it”

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    –Jim Harris, closing plenary speaker at the World Future 2012 Last week Anneliese Guess attended the World Future Society’s Annual Conference World Future 2012 in Toronto, Canada. The conference included sessions on future trends, ranging from identity to technological progress to demographics to food. The convening of futurists led to […]