Employers of the future: Why AI, Gen Z, and new life realities require a reinvention of the employer’s role.

How accurate can predictions about the world of tomorrow be? The best way to find out is to look to the past and do a reality check. Or, to put it another way: What predictions were made around the year 2000 about today?

Tech for good? A conversation with Dr. Armin Grunwald, a renowned professor and expert in the field of technology assessment, is focused on the question of how we can shape disruptive technologies such as AI, digitalization, or autonomous robots.

Using extended reality, learners are moving through virtual worlds interacting with objects and simulations. The added didactic value lies in complex facts not only being explained but directly experienced.

150 years ago, the Metric Convention laid the foundation for the International System of units. How did this come about – “tomorrow” provides an overview, and a Schaeffler expert explains what standardized measuring units mean for research.

Vacationing in 2050 – what’s the destination? Are AI, mixed reality, and new mobility worlds going to transform holiday travel into multisensory experiences? “tomorrow” takes a visionary peek into the future.

Higher speed, precision, and efficiency – humanoids, AI-assisted tools, and other high-tech innovations are revolutionizing inspections and repairs. “tomorrow” says what products the garage of tomorrow will need.

Modular toys combine fantasy with functionality. Who knows: Maybe the engineers of tomorrow are going to build their first product prototypes using small colored bricks. Can modular toys open the door to understanding technology?

Science fiction is often as a precursor of real-world technological developments. “tomorrow” shows some examples of innovations that were described in science fiction novels and movies a long time before they occurred.

As temperatures start rising many bicycle enthusiasts wake up from hibernation. While they were giving their bikes a break others continued refining the future of the electric bicycle: the completely chainless Free Drive system from Schaeffler.

How do we manage to integrate new technologies and the resulting key to the future into our lives? Occupational psychologist and “curiosity researcher” Dr. Carl Naughton has been exploring this question for more than a decade.

The integration of technological solutions for feeding the world in the future is meeting with increasing acceptance by consumers.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, humans are increasingly evolving from pack animals into lone wolves – with serious consequences for human health. Loneliness is as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, says the WHO.

Discarding and burning waste will soon be history – tomorrow the Danish island of Bornholm intends to have implemented a zero-waste concept. However, achieving that goal is a feat requiring a joint effort of everyone involved.

Today’s children are tomorrow’s pioneers. “tomorrow” looks at how the youngest generation views the future. We asked children in various regions of the world what invention they’re still missing.

When large-scale technical projects or social change knock on the door the time has come for Nimby, an acronym that stands for “not in my backyard.” But what’s this alleged attitude of refusal all about?

Official ID cards and passports are frequently needed documents during the current travel season, but have you ever bothered taking a closer look at them? We have – and discovered some astonishing facts.

Hauling people and goods in rural areas is often tricky. In many places, bus and train connections are lacking. Connecting remote regions that have been left behind poses a worldwide and multifaceted challenge.

Traits that characterize captains at the helm of a ship in a storm include resilience and pragmatism. What can people at the helm of businesses learn from mariners in terms of resilience? Quite a bit, says maritime expert Stefan Kruecken.

Sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste – these senses not only have biological relevance for us human beings but also connect us with our surroundings. Consequently, disorders within the sensory system have an impact. High tech can provide relief.

How are demographic change and technological progress going to change the family system? Together with the specialists at Z_punkt foresight consultancy SOS Children’s Village Hamburg ventured a fictitious outlook for the year 2070.

Fireworks are part of the New Year. However, these bombs of fine dust are not environmentally friendly. We present to you: There is a clean alternative: drone displays – high-tech pixels in the night.

Effective insulation, good indoor climate, simple production, plus carbon neutrality: new natural building materials using hemp or corn might revolutionize the construction industry.

Billions of letters and parcels are sent every year. To do this, the deliverers rely on state-of-the-art machines and digital technologies. A look into the gears of global logistics chains.

A classic is turning into the spearhead of urban mobility transformation: the bicycle.

Time is in scarce supply – all the more reason to use it efficiently. These tricks help you make more time for yourself on the job and after hours.

Neither chain, nor shaft, nor belt - Schaeffler presented the "Bike-by-Wire" system Free Drive as an innovative solution for bicycles at Eurobike 2021 in Friedrichshafen.

After nearly twenty years of spectacular robot development and the third change in ownership, Boston Dynamics is now aiming to break even with an initial product.

Scientists are working at full stretch on the development of robots for everyday life and technical systems to keep an aging society agile for as long as possible.

The history books of technology are full of misunderstood inventions. Not all of them were bad, but some of them just hit the market at the wrong time.

Gyro Gearloose is the innovative mastermind in Disney’s Duckburg universe. As we’re seeing today, many of his inventions were definitely those of a true visionary. But read for yourself …

An innovation-driven world changes all of our lives. Here are five areas education and training should focus on to prepare people for the new digital knowledge society.

Acting with consistency, thinking with agility, responding with flexibility. These globetrotters have mastered the art of planning as perfectly as the art of adaptation.

Practically all products today have their own identifier: a barcode. A beep and the checkout terminal knows the article’s name, its price, its tax rate and more, thanks to some black and white bars.

Pursuing a clear goal ... and discovering or inventing something totally different. This is referred to as serendipity. Legendary examples from laminated glass to Viagra.

Developing increasingly sophisticated products at a continually accelerating pace – this can only be achieved with agile organizational structures. “New Work” is the new fitness formula for companies.

Artificial intelligence, quantum physics and robotics will dramatically change our world this century. Some jobs will disappear while others will emerge. This is what such neo jobs might look like.

Digital technology is changing the future of our working world. For industrial sociologist Martin Krzywdzinski, algorithms and machines neither pose a threat to humanity nor they are ultimate saviors.

The working world has seen constant change in hundreds of thousands of years. By contrast, this cannot be said for a major reason why we work.

The future was never brighter and enthusiasm for technology never greater than during the brief period between the eve of the 20th century and the outbreak of the First World War.

In his thriller “Blackout,” Marc Elsberg describes the collapse of civilization within just a few days due to catastrophic failure of the power grids. How vulnerable are modern societies?

Das Gehirn goes online.

Inconspicuous plants with natural superpowers might soon help us stop famines, the destructive overexploitation of raw materials or climate change. Here are five examples.

It doesn't always have to be a desk. These ten people have a slightly different workplace.

Clogged roads and railroads at their capacity limits – the conquest of airspace may help decongest traffic on the ground. Vertical mobility using drones is a promising complement to the portfolio.

Living with a disability entails major challenges – modern technology can assist in managing them. But even people not challenged by disabilities can benefit from such innovations.

Superheroes and their superpowers: When it comes to acceleration, Superman, Flash & company push the boundaries of imagination. “tomorrow” shows what high-speed rides these heroes are capable of.

Who in the world wound the clock? That’s a legitimate question. Although, due to technological progress, we have more time than ever before it seems to be passing faster and faster.

What’s it like to live in the world’s biggest city as a foreigner? Andreas Neuenkirchen, an author of numerous books, has been living in Tokyo since 2016. For “tomorrow” he captured a typical day.

The city in science fiction stories rarely lifts the reader’s spirits. In most sci-fi novels, people are living in cramped conditions of dirty megacities instead of picking flowers on Mars. But why?

The urbanization of the world began 10,000 years ago. Since then, humans have been trying to master the challenges it entails. A brief tour of urban development history.

Are men interested in machines and women are not? Before this question provokes a public outcry, it’s worth taking a look at a few statistics and the changes that are currently taking place.

In countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia more than 80 percent of all households use two-wheeled vehicles to satisfy their mobility needs – reason enough to take a closer look.

They take us across rivers and valleys, connect city districts and cross other roads – whenever motion might be obstructed, bridges pave the way – like these prime examples of their kind.

The development of humanity is inseparably tied to the amount of energy we’re able to generate and consume. A brief history of human energy consumption in five chapters.