• Medical Food – Does it make and keep us healthy?

    What was once used exclusively to treat the seriously ill is now also aimed at healthy people: medical food. Dietary supplements and fortified foods for a healthy lifestyle?The sense and benefits are controversial – the use of artificial intelligence (AI) provides new answers and impulses for shaping individual lifestyle.

    From Clinical Nutrition to Superfood

    The term “medical…

  • Healthier living with the Smart Assistant?

    Today, one’s own health has established itself as an important value. We collect

    more and more information about our bodies – a veritable health cult has emerged.

    One indispensable gadget is the Smart Assistant with artificial intelligence (AI).

    We futurologists show opportunities and risks in dealing with AI and how we can preserve our sovereignty and freedom with…

  • Health has a future

    Health has become a value in itself: People associate their preservation with a sense of achievement and do not value it only when it is lacking. Since the 1990s, research into this topic has identified three types of health. What is behind these typologies and what are the long-term consequences for healthcare and the pharmaceutical…

  • Excursion into the future

    Hello!

    My name is Monika Herrmann and I am a futurologist.

    I am pleased to to accompany you on an excursion into the future.

    A warm welcome!

    Let’s imagine tomorrow – and actively shape it.

    We explore the paths to the distant future. Desirable and undesirable futures await us in distant life worlds. We choose our future. Futures research supports…

  • Mission possible!

    As a futurologist, my mission is clear, important and not impossible. It is to recognize opportunities in threats, to keep our finger on the pulse of change, to grow with it. And to find our values as drivers into the desired future.

    Major changes usually begin almost imperceptibly. As a futurologist, my senses are sharpened and…

  • Gain strategic competence

    What does strategy mean? How do we know that we are on our way to the highest mountain – and not to a hill on the way to the summit? moderning presents some issues of strategic thinking and action for discussion. moderning shows ways to make reliable judgments – and how to avoid lapsing into…

  • Destination Future

    The future is what comes. The choice is yours: Wait and see what you find tomorrow by chance – or set out today to actively shape the future? The more attractive the future, your destination, appears, the more successful your journey will be – and the better you understand how to choose the right time…

  • Competing values: a magic polygon

    Goals reflect values: Social and individual goal conflicts arise from the competition between our values. Politics and social sciences know the magic polygons. They visualize how certain goals can only be achieved at the expense of other goals – and values. moderning addresses decision-makers who deal with the advantages and disadvantages of decision alternatives on…

  • With our values against chaos and shock

    What do values mean in our society? In the face of an unprecedented shock event, values are an indispensable compass for the future. For companies, the community of values is even becoming a critical success factor, both internally and externally. Futurology helps to establish sustainable and value-compliant positions for success. 

    Values as guidelines of our future

    Values…