The Promise of Biophilic Work Design
On average, we spend about 92% of our lives indoors. Yet, the so-called "biophilia hypothesis" suggests that humans...
Life Beyond the 2020 Shockwave
Once every few decades, Americans are hit by a shockwave. A few of those shockwaves, including the battles at...
The Debate Over Family Structure and Life Success
Everyone recognizes that there is a persistent income, wealth, and health gap, on average, between black and white...
Flying Cars Surge Forward
The year 2019 may be remembered as the year when “flying cars” were transformed from “sci-fi fantasy” into an...
Unleashing the Potential of Hypersonic Flight
published on: Jun 15, 2019
As discussed in our July 2018 issue, hypersonic flight is the latest thing in advanced weaponry. Yet the designs presently being tested by China,...
Implications of America’s 21st Century...
published on: May 15, 2019
For nearly 20 years, the Trends editors have been forecasting and tracking the clear and rapidly accelerating internal migration now upon us. ...
Lab Grown Meat Moves Toward Commercialization
published on: Apr 15, 2019
The rise of the global middle class has dramatically increased the demand for meat over the past 40 years. And this is only going to accelerate now...
Off We Go into the Wild Black Yonder
published on: Oct 15, 2018
Militarizing outer space has been discussed ever since the Sputnik-era. But only recently has the United States taken formal action to make it...
Apocalypse Avoided
published on: Aug 15, 2018
As we know from the demise of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, literally Earth-shattering events occur, but only very infrequently. However, when...
How Driverless Cars Will Re-Shape Our World
published on: Sep 15, 2017
Just as few people in 1907 could have imagined the impact of automobiles on civilization over the next 20 to 50 years, managers, workers, and...
Realizing the Potential of 4D Printing
published on: Sep 15, 2017
For over a decade, we’ve been watching the evolution of 3D printing and other varieties of additive manufacturing. But recently, a new derivative...
Additive Manufacturing Goes Industrial
published on: Aug 15, 2017
A decade ago, additive manufacturing (or AM) began to appear in labs, workshops, and design studios, where flexibility, low turn-around times, and...
Battery-Electric Cars, Less Than Meets the Eye
published on: Jul 30, 2017
If you listen to the mainstream-media, you’ve certainly heard that a surge in battery-electric cars will transform the automobile industry and even...
New Research Raises Stimulating Possibilities...
published on: Jul 30, 2017
For decades, experts have speculated about the possible benefits of electrically stimulating the human brain. But until recently, it’s never...
On-Demand Personal Aviation Takes Off
published on: Jun 24, 2017
Since Trends last examined this rapidly developing story in September 2016, a tsunami of innovation, funding, business models and regulatory...
When America Goes to Pot
published on: Feb 25, 2017
In 2016, the legalization of cannabis, also known as marijuana, approached critical mass in the United States. What will this mean for public health...
Policing in the Twenty-First Century
published on: Jan 16, 2017
For millennia, law enforcement was carried out by human police, enforcing a peace between the members of villages, towns, and then cities. Yet, try...
A Star Trek “Impulse Drive” Could Open Up...
published on: Jan 16, 2017
As every Star Trek fan knows, the Starship Enterprise had two kinds of propulsion: faster-than light “warp drive” for interstellar travel, and...
The Climate Express Hits the Wall
published on: Dec 15, 2016
Like a speeding locomotive filled with gold bullion, the $1.5 trillion a year climate-industrial complex seemed, until a few weeks ago,...
The New Plastics Economy
published on: Nov 15, 2016
Plastics have become the ubiquitous workhorse material of the modern economy, combining unrivaled functional properties with low cost. Their use...
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