Policy Horizons’ Director General, Kristel Van der Elst, explores significant areas of change, and how the potential outcomes of those changes may alter our strategic landscape and systems.
This video tackles the future of social connection along with three changes and their policy implications: The automation of social connections, our real connections in virtual worlds, and the deepening of social surveillance.
Our manager of foresight, Marcus Ballinger, examines how emerging technologies are shifting value in the next digital economy by breaking four scarcities associated with specific kinds of human activities.
In this video, we discuss how the convergence of digital technologies and biological systems is becoming a part of our future, and how it may impact our lives. The information provided in this video is ...
On March 25 2020, Uniper Care Technologies (a telehealth and social engagement company) launched their new cross-platform service connecting isolated populations with others through smartphones, tablets, computers or even a TV set.
MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality produced a digital storytelling project called “In Event of Moon Disaster'' to raise awareness about the world of deepfakes.
How are our sense-making processes evolving? Here are four changes that affect the way in which we think, make decisions and behave.
In a January 2020 article, scientists demonstrated that the protein sestrin is responsible for many of the physiological benefits of exercise.
In late 2019, a U.S.-based dating platform launched a speed-date video chat feature to avoid “bad first dates” by allowing matched users to have a two-minute video chat as a digital first date.
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