The increasing scarcity of drinking water is beginning to capture the world’s attention – but surprisingly, an innovative solution might just be found in one of the Earth’s driest places.
Erik German
Erik German is a Senior Producer at Retro Report. Previously, he worked as a roving national correspondent and producer for The Daily, News Corp’s iPad news publication. Before that, he was an award-winning foreign correspondent for GlobalPost based in North Africa and Brazil. He began his career at Newsday, covering politics, local corruption and crime.
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Future of Cities
In the latest installment of our “What Happens Next” series examining the future of society, we visit Medellín, Colombia—a city that has reinvented itself over the past few decades, turning its violent past into a sustainable future by transforming its slums.
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What History Can Teach Us About Mass Killings
A century ago, a culture rid itself of the problem of mass murder. How did that happen and what can the modern-day world learn from it?
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Future of Work
A remote Oregon mountainside offers a window into the workplace of the future.
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Future of Money
Future of Money, the first in a 5-part series, looks at what ancient stones on a tiny Pacific island can teach us about Bitcoin, blockchains and the future of money.
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What Happens Next
What Happens Next, produced in collaboration by Retro Report and Quartz, is a series of deeply reported short documentaries that examine radical transformations coming to central aspects of life in the near future, through the experience of people already living them out. Future of Water The increasing scarcity of drinking water is beginning to capture […]
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Future of Home
Guatemalan homesteaders and a Michigan contractor are riding a wave that could change how our lives are wired.
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Future of Fact
Online manipulation and immersive media have begun to eradicate our shared notion of authenticity and trust. How will society change when we can no longer believe what we see, hear, or think?
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Future of Food
A small South Dakota farm holds lessons for feeding a crowded and less predictable world.
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Women, Work and the Modern American Family
The Mommy Wars were billed as the nastiest fight in American parenting, and actually fueled by a decades-old blunder. This story was produced in collaboration with Quartz.
