Product piracy costs billions: Not only due to lost sales but also because of potential damage due to inferior quality of counterfeits. The consequences are complex – just like the countermeasures.

While the Hyperloop has not made its way into the real world of transportation yet, an even more extreme idea is approaching at high speed: the Aeroslider maglev concept.

Billions of plants for millions of jobs: The Great Green Wall across the continent is the world’s largest landscape restoration project.

On a fast track to becoming an economic superpower: with agile thinking and advanced technology, India might be ranking among the world’s top three economies by 2030.

Some gamers rise to the highest spheres of electronic sports as celebrated heroes. Sim-Racing, in which Schaeffler is involved, is one of the increasingly professional e-sports disciplines.

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.

Long ago, canals were built strictly by human hands, helped feed the population and created the basis for rural and urban settlements.

No other industrialized country has evolved from a developing into a highly industrialized nation at the breathtaking pace that Korea has seen.

Transformation means progress and nowhere else can it be felt more distinctly than in our cities. Survey the pictures on the following pages and share our amazement.