In 2016, a company specializing in the creation of functional and comfortable office products partnered with Bureo to decrease the ever-growing deluge of plastic in our oceans. More specifically, Humanscale plans to make a difference by manufacturing their new Smart Ocean task chair through Bureo’s “Net Positiva” program. This recovery and recycling initiative facilitates the... Continue Reading →

Stigma surrounding mental health is on the decline: we talk about it in the media, in our workplaces and with our friends, and importantly with professionals. But one of the few remaining taboos is talking about what causes a lot of our anxieties and depression: stress, worklessness, job-insecurity, poverty, financial insecurity, inequality. In short, work.... Continue Reading →

Frederic H. Moll trained to become a surgeon, but never completed his residency at Virgina Mason Hospital in Seattle. Nonetheless, the doctor-by-training and humble "gadget guy," has changed the face of medicine for good. Moll, who is known as the "Bill Gates of robotics," ushered in the first wave of surgical robotics in 1995 with... Continue Reading →

Humanity has always endeavoured to speed up manual tasks. From the first use of animal bones as tools to the creation of the factory production line by Ransom E Olds in the early 1900s and beyond, we have always wanted to make things better, faster and cheaper. But each iteration of automation has led to... Continue Reading →

The global economy created a record number of billionaires last year, exacerbating inequality amid a weakening of workers’ rights and a corporate push to maximize shareholder returns, charity organization Oxfam International said in a new report. The world now has 2,043 billionaires, after a new one emerged every two days in the past year, the... Continue Reading →

AI is an exciting growth area, but the investing opportunities are not always obvious. Here’s how to integrate this theme. One of the most exciting themes in science, technology and economics today is the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, but finding the best way to invest in this theme is not always... Continue Reading →

India will reportedly pay for Iranian oil in rupees as the two countries seek to bypass the US economic pressure on Tehran, industry officials have told the Sputnik news agency. Under the deal, the payments for oil will be made through India’s state-run UCO Bank, which has no US exposure. The countries are also discussing... Continue Reading →

There is one main reason that most robbery crimes are happening that often, people have no access to basic survival money. Of course, there are thefts and criminals which do that anyway, that’s why with UBI we should have more strict laws for criminals, but the majority of the everyday thefts are poor people who just... Continue Reading →

Thanks in part to email, Facebook, and Twitter, mail carriers may be all but obsolete in the not-so-distant future. By 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 28% decline in postal-service jobs, about 136,000 fewer positions than 2014. But mail carriers aren't the only ones whose jobs are disappearing. Technology and market shifts have... Continue Reading →