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Arnold Bos

Managing Analyst

Energy | Food | CPG | Materials | Digital

Arnold Bos is an experienced, creative, and highly curious managing consultant specialized in technology innovation across numerous industries. Formerly as consultant and managing director at Lux Research, Arnold has worked on a very broad range of topics in energy, food and consumer goods, materials, and digital. Having worked with executives and innovation leaders at many of the worlds largest R&D driven organizations, he can guide clients through complex, unfamiliar technology domains, pull in learnings from adjacent territories, and connect the dots across disciplines, to reach clear, compelling, science-backed innovation strategies.  

Articles by Arnold Bos

A New Ethics of AI
aCommerce – Technical Architecture
Autonomy, mesh networks, machine vision, and other technologies combine to form a post-smartphone platform
aCommerce and Apparel and Retail
Apparel delivery and subscriptions end fast fashion, aiding the environment but decimating the retail industry
aCommerce and Food
Swarm intelligence, personal agents and new home appliances eliminate wasted food, time, and money
aCommerce and Mobility
Optimized traffic, autonomous transport, and micro-mobility replace cars, public transit, and other inflexible transit
After Agetech: From disability to superpowers
Until now, agetech has focused on delaying disability. But an emerging field aims to give elders superpowers, making the Third Age more like the First
Age, population and prosperity
Around the world, populations are peaking - except for the oldest, whose numbers are sharply rising. What does this mean for the economy, culture, and even architecture?
Ageless Beauty
As the worlds population shifts away from youth, ideals of beauty are sure to follow.
An interspecies economy
Imagine a world where not only people (real and fictitious, i.e. corporations) had legal and economic standing: what if the Arctic had an accountant, and the Amazon an investment advisor?
Animal Cognition
Optogenetics, electroencephalography, image analysis, and machine learning are being brought to bear on nonhuman thoughts
Autonomy’s Impact on Urban Economies
Cities are where autonomous commerce is happening first, accelerated by covid and recovery. How will traffic flows, housing, offices, and shopping centers reform?
Beyond Sustainable: Restoration
The UN has declared the time until 2030 the "Decade on Ecosystem Restoration," with aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems. What are the technologies, organizations, and actions to watch?
Bio-based energy
From ocean algae to agricultural and forest waste, biobased sources of energy offer promising and sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels. Almost 15 years into their rise, how are they playing out, and whats on the horizon?
Biohacking Beauty: Unveiling Inner Everlasting Vitality
This report will focus on the growing biohacking trend in the beauty industry. It will explore how consumers use varied methods, including personalized diets and other innovative measures, to enhance their beauty from within.
Biotech Comes to the Table
From soil probiotics, to lab grown meat, to clean conversion of food waste, biotech is just beginning
Biotech foods enter the market
The literal fruits of genetic engineering are entering the market, as novel products, processes, and packages. How are innovators remixing the new and old?
Brain-Computer Interfaces
An explanation and forecast of components and companies making BCIs
Branding Science-based Products and Companies
Caffeine and Chemical Multipliers
Chemical catalysts for exploring and increasing focus, creativity, and even dreams
Carbon-negativity
From biochar and planting trees to carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a slew of technologies both new and traditional are getting investment from governments, industry, and venture investors.
Carbon-negativity
Its increasingly clear that even carbon-neutral is not enough; we need processes and technologies that remove more CO2 than they produce. And most of all, they need to scale up from lab bench to gigatons.
Chic Sustainability: The Emergence of Eco-Conscious Fashion
We discuss the surge in sustainability within the fashion industry, focusing on how luxury brands are turning from traditional methods to more eco-friendly alternatives. This report will analyze the latest innovations in sustainable material sourcing, manufacturing processes, and distribution.
City as State
Geopolitical impacts of the global urban population boom
City-States Remap Geopolitics
Urbanization is adding political power to cities already-dominant cultural and economic strength. Some are even embarking on their own path with regard to immigration, residency, and other matters formerly left to nations. How will cities remake the geopolitical map?
Closed-loop Food Systems
If food is grown and recycled where it’s consumed, cities can effectively expand without limit. New technologies from sustainability and space are arriving now
Coming in the future
Watch this space, or send us your suggestions for a future topic.
Coming in the future
Watch this space, or send us your suggestions for a future topic.
Coming in the future
Watch this space, or send us your suggestions for a future topic.
Coming in the future
Watch this space, or send us your suggestions for a future topic.
Creative AI
Large language models and generative image tools like Midjourney exploded onto the scene in the last 12 months - but they have been on the radar for years. So why did we notice them so late, and what will their impact be on industries and occupations?
Decolonizing Technology
Programming, gaming, and almost every field of engineering are dominated by white men. Is technology itself part of the problem, and how can it be fixed?
Design Thinking for Deeptech
Domestic Robots and Digital People
What’s in the pipeline for help at home, with both manual and emotional labor? These startups and applications are moving in
Eco-Luxe: The Intersection of Circularity & Second-Life Luxury
This report will delve into the transformative impact of circular economy principles and the growing acceptance of second-life luxury in the beauty, hospitality, and luxury industries. It will look at consumer behavior, sustainability, and the innovative strategies companies are employing to capitalize on this trend.
Emerging computing architectures
New architectures for computing, from edge AI and swarm intelligence to quantum computers and blockchain, are creeping in to our digital ecosystem. Which technologies fit which applications, and when will they be ready?
Enter the Metaverse
The Metaverse is all the buzz, but key pieces are already here. What will the next digital world mean for the physical counterpart, and vice-versa?
Enter the Metaverse
The metaverse was one of the most-vaunted trends of 2021, with multibillion-dollar bets being placed by Meta, Nvidia, and other tech giants. Now that the hyper has cooled, what are the long term prospects and leaders in this still-important future?
Eradicating bias in industry
From entertainment to the executive suite, representation is spreading, but at this rate, equality is still centuries away. What can industries learn from leaders to accelerate needed change?
Food Fight: Metabolic Response versus “Better for you”
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