Future Today
No. 21 – How To Use A Doll’s House Pillow Properly
When he got out of the car, his heart beats faster and the closer he got to the warehouse the...
No. 20 – HOW TO PROTECT AND TO PRESERVE
Richard and Patricia were sitting on the terrace of their hotel in St. Moritz, a little tired but relaxed. They...
No. 19 – HOW ISRAEL CONTRIBUTED TO MODERN FOOTBALL RULES
Yosef cursed. He had been standing in Tel Aviv’s evening traffic for over an hour and feared that he would...
No. 18 – How the search for water found humanity
Algeria in Spring 1859. Henry, a young businessman from Geneva had a problem. For months he had been trying to...
No. 17 – HOW A MAP BECAME AN ICON
Graham Jones was a classic example of the English bourgeoisie who, with persistence and luck, became rich in the British...
No. 16 – HOW DYNAMITE BECAME NOBEL
When the young Swedish chemist received his latest patent No: 1345/1867” in May 1867, he was well aware of its...
No. 15 – How Italians taught numbers to speak
It was summer and Emilio Bossi, a wine merchant from Perugia in Italy, was hard at work updating his business...
No. 14 – How bad luck turns into satisfaction
It was a late afternoon in August. Julia and Peter from Hamburg were on a mountain tour in the Swiss...
No. 12 – How a French Widow Conquered Russia
At the beginning of 1814, Russian troops had occupied the town of Reims in a famous French winegrowing region. The...
No. 11 – How holes generated income and saved lives
It was July 19, 1934, when a spectacular rescue operation of climbers occurred at an altitude of 2,865 metres, in...
No. 10 – How tea was given wings
It was the autumn of 1840 when Lady Lessenby sat with her friend, Alice Sumner, in the salon of their...
No. 9 – How innovation can challenge Monopolies
It was spring 2019 as Peter Schmidt and Klaus Hansbauer sat together in a restaurant in Berlin, Germany. Peter was...