Reading List #15: About the future of mobility, energy, work & retail

Elke Simon
STRICHPUNKT DESIGN
Published in
3 min readDec 10, 2018
Strichpunkt reading list #15

From tech trends to the future of retail and mobility. Reading tips for the holiday season!

#1: Future Forces Report

The future forces report is taking a look at tech trends that will impact our lives as “looking at the future helps reframe the here and now”. The future of energy, mobility, money, work or shopping- here’s a nice abstract about the key highlights by sector and the possibility to download the full future forces report:

#2: The future of mobility study

Talking about the future of mobility, here’s a study that faces the unaddressed mobility needs in the market, predicting that access to partner networks, rather than vehicles, will form the successful mobility platform of tomorrow.

#3: Becoming Weltmeister

The future of mobility is not a car, but rather an attitude towards life: Always On. Chinese start-up Weltmeister has put this way of thinking at the centre of its brand. On the path to a smart era, the car is adapting to people. In doing so, a permanently networked vehicle is practical — but only the beginning of an exciting journey.

See the whole brand experience here:

#4: Six things you need to know about the future of retail

While retail sales are looking healthy, with a growth of nearly five per cent year on year in August, saying that the relationship between retailers and consumers has changed would be an understatement. New technologies and innovations such as the transition to digital have transformed the nature of shopping. Here are the ways that the retail industry will be heading towards in the future:

#5: These Are The 50 Digitally Native Brands You’ll See Everywhere In 2019

At first blush, it may seem like fashion and technology have a cozy relationship. In reality, though, there’s actually a great distance between the worlds of fashion and tech. To bring both worlds together is the aim of “The Lead”. Just recently they released the top 50 digitally native brands that are moving the needle.

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