All Recent FutureChallenges Posts

Growing nations need industry, and this industry needs employees. To give the industry the employees it needs to make the nation grow, citizens must be trained to fulfill these positions. Is there room for the arts in the developing world’s job market?

People across the world now have the opportunity to see direct media coverage of events as they unfold. It made Mongolians shudder when they watched the self  immolation video of  the Tibetan monk  and  moved them immensely when they saw the Dalai Lama – the Tibetan leader cry for his people. […]

Students in China have their fate determined at a really early age. At the end of their high school, the National Higher Education Entrance Examination – also called GaoKao – decides the universities students can apply to. Their scores determine whether or not they will be able to enter into higher education. The course […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7JzmOswyQ Sitting on a Norwegian airlines plane from Oslo, Norway to Tromsø, I feel compelled to take a few minutes to explain why I believe the Arctic is relevant to futurechallenges.org. Our mandate is to explore the way in which the world’s major trends intersect, and how those intersections will […]

This is a guest post by Thiess Petersen, who also works with the future challenges team in Gütersloh. Thiess’s research is primarily concerned with questions of globalization and the current international financial crisis. He leads seminars and lectures at several universities and is currently occupied by the production of textbooks […]

When my father was a little poor orphan during the war in China, he searched in fields for the remains of grains of rice and ate them with rats’ or birds’ eggs he found. And my mother as a child in eastern Taiwan coast, ate rice gruel mixed with sweet […]