Reasons 4B people are still offline

How can we get the other half of the world online? | Continue reading


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Finland is taking a radical new approach to flexible working

9 out of 10 Finnish companies already offer their workforce flexible-working options. | Continue reading


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Singapore's plan to avoid running out of water

Singapore, a steamy, low-lying island city-state, is the fifth most likely country in the world to face extremely high water stress by 2040. | Continue reading


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Look no hands: self-driving vehicles' public trust problem

Autonomous vehicles could have a transformational impact on society. But they never will unless the general public overcome their current fear of them. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Why Universal Basic Income Might Not Be the Answer – World Economic Forum

Professor of Economics at MIT Daron Acemoglu believes we ought to be wary of simple solutions - and says universal basic income is no exception. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

The new assembly lines: Why AI needs low-skilled workers too

It's often said that the AI revolution will only benefit highly skilled workers. But there is a hidden army of labor labelling the data on which it relies. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air – and it could feed billions

The Finnish company, Solar Foods, has designed a high-protein powder made from CO2, water and electricity. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Millions of people eat octopus- why we shouldn't

Farming octopuses is not only unethical but deeply damaging to the environment, scientists say. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

The EU wants to create 10M smart lampposts

For most of us, the humble lamppost is just that. We pass them in the street every day without a thought, but the European Union believes they are the key to the future of Smart Cities. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

How the future of computing can make or break the AI revolution

The computing ecosystem must continue to evolve – maybe into the quantum realm – if AI is to come to full fruition. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Global farmers can take on climate change. Here's how

Today, farming is a major cause of climate change through emissions, nitrogen runoff and aquifer depletion. But it doesn't need to be this way. Here's how farms can become a key climate ally. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

World Econ. Forum Consortium Launches Paperless Canada-Netherlands Travel Pilot

Madeleine Hillyer, US Media Relations, Tel. +1 (0) 646 592 5044; madeleine.hillyer@weforum.org | Continue reading


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Why natural cycles only play a small role in rate of global warming

Looking at natural climate cycles as an explanation for rapid global warming is a misleading metric, evidence suggests. | Continue reading


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Clothes Designed by Artificial Intelligence

AI has already revolutionized a number of industries. Could it do the same for fashion? | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

The climate crisis is cooking mussels in their shells

Mussels are known as a foundation species — they provide shelter and habitat for a lot of animals, so when you impact that core habitat, it ripples throughout the rest of the system.  | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect

Rising temperatures are causing the frozen ground that covers large parts of the Earth to break up, adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Why memories of music cannot be lost to Alzheimer's and dementia

If you're especially into a piece of music, your brain does something called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), which feels to you like a tingling in your brain or scalp. | Continue reading


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Reforestation is key to averting a climate catastrophe

The study also suggests that reforesting such a large area wouldn't impact our capacity for growing and farming food. | Continue reading


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Being multilingual alters your experience of time (2018)

A new study shows that bilinguals do indeed think about time differently, depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel

Designed to reach speeds of up to 600 km/h, the prototype magnetic levitation train could travel between Shanghai and Beijing in just three and a half hours. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

People consume 5g of microplastic every week – new research

Microplastics are now so prevalent throughout the environment that a study by the University of Newcastle has reached a worrying conclusion about just how much we each consume. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

India is now producing the world’s cheapest solar power

Between 2010 and 2018, setup costs for solar have fallen by 80% in India, the most precipitous decline of any country. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

AI will drive the societies of the future. Will the governed consent?

Backed by complex machines and artificial intelligence, government action will become even more impenetrable for the average citizen. How can future governments work with and for the governed? | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Great tricks for reading people's body language

Body language can be a lot more telling than what people say. That's why its important to know what to look out for. | Continue reading


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Sweden has invented a word to encourage people not to fly. And it’s working

Many environmentally-conscious Swedes are encouraging others to opt for rail over air. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Watch 125,000 years of human migration in 1 minute

This animated map shows how early migrants from Africa populated the planet. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say these two Davos experts

Working less would have a range of benefits for workers and the world should embrace the four-day working week, according to two experts at Davos 2019. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

World Economic Forum – Life Hacks from Marcus Aurelius: How Stoicism Can Help Us

The philosophy of Stoicism can help people reach a level of clear-headed thinking, says cognitive behavioral psychotherapist Donald Robertson. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Star Trek's formula for the civilization of the future

"In Star Trek, the characters were knowledge workers and did not seem to worry about food, lodging or acceptance." | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer

Instead of labeling millennials as 'snowflakes', we should take a long, hard look at modern work culture, argues one expert. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

This is what 24 of the world's most iconic flags mean

In the context of modern times, flags are best known as national symbols — and they’re used to air a country’s past, present, and future vision all rolled into one. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

To beat Starbucks, Luckin Coffee plans to open a store in China every 3.5 hours

Starbucks plans to open one store every 15 hours across China, but Luckin has plans to be even faster.  | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

In Sweden you can roam anywhere you like, without the landowner's permission

You can walk, ride, cycle, ski and camp on any land you like in Sweden, regardless of who owns it, with just a few exceptions. ‘Everyman’s right’ is a medieval custom that's been passed as law in modern times. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Redesigning Trust: Blockchain for Supply Chains – World Economic Forum

The ChallengeBlockchain has the potential to revolutionize sectors and ecosystems in which trust is needed among parties with misaligned interests. It is precisely within these contexts, however, that deploying such a new and complex technology can be the most difficult. Providin … | Continue reading


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All of the top fastest growing cities in the world are in India

Indian cities dominate a list of the fastest-growing urban economies in the world between 2019 and 2035. | Continue reading


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AI invented new sport: Speedball

The AI also came up with a motto for the game - 'Face the ball to be the ball to be above the ball’. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

These are the world’s most respected professions

Some occupations are held in higher esteem than others. But what if, in the future doctors or lawyers were robots, would people still have as much respect for professions like medicine? | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

Scientists are growing meat on blades of grass

With demand for meat outstripping production, what are the alternatives and how commercially viable are they? | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

South Korea once recycled 2% of its food waste. Now it recycles 95%

A compulsory recycling scheme in South Korea has dramatically cut the amount of food the country throws away. Here's how it works.  | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

The average person in Europe loses two years of their life due to air pollution

It also causes 800,000 premature deaths in Europe every year, with an 'Iron Curtain' dividing East and West. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 4 years ago

There are more than 1B guns in the world

A look at how gun culture and legislation varies around the world, as New Zealand seeks to ban semi-automatic weapons after a deadly shooting. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 5 years ago

South Korea and Sweden are the most innovative countries in the world

This index on innovative countries covers everything from the concentration of tech companies to the number of science and engineering graduates. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 5 years ago

Tech thinking has become too limiting – it must be disrupted

Design free-thought can break us out of the traps of ideology and commercial imperatives that have driven entrepreneurship in the past. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 5 years ago

Digital technology can cut global emissions by 15%. Here’s how

A new report argues that the digital technology sector is probably the world’s most powerful influencer for accelerating effective climate action. Here's how it might work. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 5 years ago

Privacy is a human right, we need a GDPR for the world: Microsoft CEO

Against the backdrop of a "techlash", the CEO of Microsoft called for new global norms on privacy, data and Artificial Intelligence. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 5 years ago

Predictions for the global economy in 2019

Surging market volatility and plunging trade growth have increased the risk of recession, writes IHS Markit's Chief Economist Dr Nariman Behravesh. Here are his top forecasts for this year. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 5 years ago

This is what government debt looks like across the globe

While record-low interest rates have made it easy to service existing government debt, it’s also created a situation where debt has grown to over $63 trillion in absolute terms. | Continue reading


@weforum.org | 5 years ago

Globalization 4.0 – what does it mean?

Globalization 4.0 is the theme of Davos 2019. Professor Klaus Schwab explains what it means and how it will benefit us all | Continue reading


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