Future Today

Future Today
18. November 2024

No. 24 – How a tent became fashionable

Hugh stood in the water of a small tributary stream of the Sacramento River in California and had been washing...

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24. July 2024

No. 23 – How the Collection of Problems led to a Solution

It was just before midday when the phone rang, and Malcom instinctively knew what it meant. For months, his lorry...

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20. March 2024

No. 22 – How vital it is to check the Facts

Susanne, Pierre and their three children were running late this morning. After enjoying the coastal metropolis of Rio de Janeiro...

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11. February 2024

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...

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2. March 2023

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...

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23. November 2022

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...

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23. June 2022

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...

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4. March 2022

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...

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Future Today
27. October 2021

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...

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30. June 2021

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...

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1. March 2021

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...

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Future Today
8. September 2020

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...

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