Matthias Horx

Matthias Horx – Welcome to the Future!

Even as a technology-loving boy in the 1960s, he was interested in the secrets of the future. After a career as a journalist and publicist, he developed into the most influential trend and futurologist in the German-speaking world. He published 20 books, some of which became bestsellers. He is Co-Founder and Mentor of The Future:Project, a think tank for holistic forecasting.

He stands for a futurology that doesn’t chase every fear or technology hype, but instead embraces the shift in consciousness. “The future emerges when we look at the world from the perspective of tomorrow – and our minds sense the connections between the present and the future!”

Matthias Horx – Speaking Topics

• Future Literacy – The Competence to Understand the Future

Future literacy is the ability to better understand oneself in the times in which one lives – and to draw conclusions for one’s own thoughts and actions. However, dealing wisely with the future requires certain skills: for example, distinguishing trends of change from hype and reality. Seeing the world and circumstances from different perspectives – and gaining a holistic view from this. Especially in these chaotic and crisis-ridden times, we need a form of ‘humanistic futurism’ that can retell the stories of human, social, technological and cultural progress.

• Transformation Time! – Confidence in times of disruptive change

We live in times of disruption and disappointment. The future has receded beyond the horizon and seems unattainable. But it is precisely this time that creates new opportunities for growth and change. This lecture is about the capacity for transformation of people and society, of companies and organisations. How can we rethink and reimagine the future? How can we understand what lies BEHIND the epochal change of our time?

• 2050 – The World Beyond – The Future After the Omnicrisis

What can serious futurologists say about the period leading up to the middle of the century – in view of an increasingly uncertain world? In this panoramic lecture, Matthias Horx looks through the turbulence of our time into a ‘different tomorrow’. It challenges conventional models of the future and revises outdated megatrends. A fascinating journey into the middle of the century that helps us to be more optimistic about the future.

• How to predict the future anyway: trends and countertrends, cycles of history – how to learn (better) from the past for the future.
• The new world (dis)order: scenarios for global political development.
• The human peak: the great turning point in population development and the battle for young talent.
• The ‘blue transformation’: why the ecological climate change is happening ANYWAY …
• Digital peak: the digital cycle passes its peak and loses its hype character.
• Newtopias: visions for worlds completely different from the ones we are used to.

Matthias Horx’s life project is to further develop the “futurology” of the 1960s and 1970s into holistic prognostics – an interdisciplinary combination of systems, social, cognitive and evolutionary sciences.

A passionate European, Futurist Matthias Horx commutes between London, Frankfurt and Vienna, where he has lived with his family in the “Future Evolution House” since 2010.

The Future Family includes his wife, trend researcher Oona Horx Strathern, and his sons, futurologist Tristan Horx and graphic designer Julian Horx.

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