Search results for “digital humanism” Can the humanities put the humanity into digital humanism? By Adam Tinworth Far from enhancing our public intellectual debate, the internet is increasingly limiting it. Are we missing something from the discussion around digital? What is Digital Humanism? By Martin Recke The early, 14th-century humanists started a cultural revolution that peaked in the Renaissance era. Maybe it is time for a new cultural revolution, a new Renaissance. Or is it already happening? Douglas Rushkoff on reclaiming digital for Team Human in the post-pandemic world By Adam Tinworth We surrendered digital to the financial markets in the 1990s, argued Douglas Rushkoff during his interview on 'What's NEXT'. The current crisis offers us an opportunity to rethink everything from media to education. Here's how. Rehumanising digital and escaping dark design patterns: the NEXT blog posts that caught your attention in 2019 By Adam Tinworth Only one of 2019's most read posts was written in that year. But the older posts that you were still finding valuable show a clear interest in reclaiming the humanity of the digital era. Digital Fix – Fix Digital By Martin Recke Our overblown digital egos have turned tech into a huge mess. Digital sucks, yet we are still desperate to get our daily digital fix. Now, let’s fix digital! We need to create a Digital Renaissance By Adam Tinworth Human culture did not start in the mid-2000s. We have untold generations of art, science, politics and philosophy we should be making available. And we’re not. The most important NEXT Insights of 2024 By Adam Tinworth What caught your attention in 2024? The distant future of AI, the increasing pushback against the smartphone — and the global impact of the permacrisis and Amazon. It’s a glimpse into a complex world… The most popular NEXT Insights of 2023 By Adam Tinworth What themes caught people’s eyes in 2023? And what digital insights are they seeking? The most popular NEXT Insights from 2022 By Adam Tinworth Which of our insights caught your attention in the year just gone? It's all about better, more ethical tech — and vertical and horizontal integration… Another framework for the metaverse By Martin Recke Current frameworks for the metaverse focus on hardware and software – but it's more important to understand it as a cultural phenomenon. The most useful insights of 2021 By Adam Tinworth We've been writing our Insights blog for over a decade now. Which posts amongst our extensive archive did you find most useful this year? NEXT’s top insights in 2020: what you cared about this year By Adam Tinworth What did you, the NEXT community, care about in 2020? Here's what the top 10 posts on the NEXT Insights blog tell us about the digital ideas that really mattered this year. 2018’s 10 most popular posts on the NEXT Blog By Adam Tinworth Which posts on this blog got the most traffic in 2018 - and what can we learn from that? We need to take up our responsibilities By Martin Recke What makes us human is that we take our fate in our own hands, that we take responsibility for our society and for the greater good. That we don't surrender to the supposedly superior forces of technology. Redesigning Education By Martin Recke We've talked a lot about user-centric design and its sibling, human-centred design. It's time to apply what we've learned and redesign our education system. Modernity and Reality are the Next Frontier By Martin Recke We already almost lost the difference between online and offline, or between digital and analogue. Reality itself could be next. In comparison, fake news is just a minor issue. The Tech Trend landscape of 2018 By Martin Recke Trends don’t change overnight, and they don’t change year over year as well. Instead, they evolve over time, slowly or rapidly. From UX and CX to HX: The Human Experience By Martin Recke We, the users, are not only users. We might be customers, or the product being sold, but we definitely are human beings. The Future is Human-Centric By Martin Recke This week, Gartner published their annual update on the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. What struck me was the observation that there seems to be a pattern now. Tariq Krim fell out of love with technology By Martin Recke Tariq Krim recently posted a Facebook note that resonates well with this year's NEXT theme, albeit from a critical point of view. Given that he is a seasoned internet entrepreneur, we should carefully listen. Why the link of brand and performance marketing is broken By Martin Recke The schism between brand and performance marketing has deep roots in the history of the craft, and it’s a systemic issue. Francesca Bria: How Data May Help Cities to Become More Democratic and Sustainable The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated some of the most pressing urban challenges. What role can technological humanism play here? The cultural dimension of Web3 By Martin Recke We will recognise Web3 by its cultural dimension: how it shapes, influences and creates reality and culture. prev 1 2 next
