Tomorrow

A Bright Future

Trends, challenges, opportunities: How our world will change – and what we can do to ensure a successful future. Illustration: Dave Hänggi

Trends, challenges, opportunities: How our world will change – and what we can do to ensure a successful future. Illustration: Dave Hänggi

Collage of people, skyscrapers and soap bubbles

Foresight

The world in 2040 – scenarios for the future

What will the world look like in 2040? Futurologists at Evonik have developed five scenarios.

Earth photographed from space

Foresight

The world's population continues to grow

A look at the future: Figures and forecasts regarding the development of the world’s population.

Fabiana Scapolo

Europe

Talking helps

Fabiana Scapolo, the Deputy Head of the EU Policy Lab, explains the central challenges facing Europe.

Cosmetics

Tomorrow’s Beauty Care: The cosmetics market

Only the best for the beauty sector: How to make discriminating customers happy.

The(is) Future

Short trips into the future

Foresight-Manager Björn Theis about disruptive technologies, visionaries, and places where the future is being “made”.

Foresight

Extreme extremities

How can thoughts control a prosthesis? Polymers are becoming the “connectors” between human beings and prostheses.

Foresight

Cadmium and Nickel fresh from the field

A visionary approach: Can plants absorb harmful substances and thus detoxify soil?

Foresight

Waste plastic as a sustainable resource

Old sportswear as material for new sneakers: Plastic waste can be reused in a sustainable way.

Foresight

Smart Fabrics

Evonik will help future fashion to do more than keeping us warm and looking good. Will we soon have smart fabrics equipped with poison detectors?

An overview of the dossiers

Concentrated information: Our dossiers bring together everything worth knowing about the main themes of ELEMENTS—clearly and concisely.

Knowledge Storage

All issues of Elements in the archive

You will find an overview of the previous issues of Elements here.

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