Guardian: Germany is the most forward thinking country in the world according to the Future Orientation Index 2012 created by academics from University College London (UCL) and Warwick University, who analysed more than 45bn Google queries to find that Germany had searched for the future more than any other country.
Despite holding the number one spot in the 2011, the UK has slipped to fourth place in the new ranking. The index, created by UCL’s Dr Suzy Moatand Warwick Business School Associate Professor Tobias Preis, involved analysing millions of Google logs from 2012 for 45 different countries. Using the Google logs, they calculated the ratio of the volume of searches for 2013 to the volume of searches for 2011.