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Sustainability

FOOD IS TOO PRECIOUS TO BE THROWN AWAY - WINNOW

What is it? Food waste has been and it is still a problem in the hospitality industry for so many years now. It is also an environmental problem which has a…

INSIGHTS

THE MYTH AND MARKETING OF ANTI-MICROBIAL TEXTILE

Let’s take a look in your bag: phone, wallet, keys. A mouth mask or two. One travel-size hand sanitizer and a moisturizer to fix the chapped hands from using said…

TECHNOLOGY

WHEN REFLECTING BACK ON THE ROARING TWENTIES THE 2020’S SHOULD BE AN EQUALLY INTERESTING DECADE WITH GREAT PROMISE AND TERRIFYING RISK

The “Roaring 1920s” might have set a precedent for the “Roaring 2020s” being an equally interesting time. As Mark Twain is famously quoted: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often…

TECHNOLOGY

BLACK FRIDAY IN THE NEW NORMAL – WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE

With a second wave of the Coronavirus spreading, businesses and retailers cannot attract, or risk attracting crowds that were usual in Black Friday sales season. It is common knowledge that…

Gamification

The future of education according Millennials and Generation Zers.

Why do we still hold graduation ceremonies the same our parents and grandparents did over 50 years ago? Why hasn’t the education system and work sector changed? It is not…

SIMULTANEOUS REVOLUTIONS

2030 is around the corner. The agenda of several organizations, governments and companies already considers the arrival of the fourth decade of the 21st century. In 2015, the UN was…

WHAT’S GOING TO BE COOL IN 2021? AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES ARE RETURNING FOR CONSUMERS AND HERE’S WHAT THAT MEANS.

Remember Google Glass? Well I was one of those initial Glass Explorers aka “Glassholes” who put these things on when they were launched in 2013. The product was discontinued in 2015…

TECHNOLOGY

PLAYING WITH FIRE

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the shocking things 2020 has been throwing at us so far; a pandemic, explosions, wildfires, the list goes on. A while…

Let’s get nerd. Futures studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_studies) is “the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people…

SHOPLIFTERS

Data lures consumer into buying In my car I listened to a Dutch radio broadcast show about shops of the future ‘the techniques behind the shop of the future’. A…