Search results for “digital sucks” Digital sucks – but an out-of-control tech backlash is worse By Adam Tinworth Much of the current backlash against the tech giants is deserved: but is it going too far? Are we blaming them for our own weaknesses? Digital Sucks. So, let’s choose to make better decisions By Adam Tinworth The best part of 20 years ago a very smart woman told me something I strongly disagreed with at the time: love, she said, isn’t a feeling. It’s a decision. In my 20-something’s surge of passion and romance, I denied it all. There was no way love was anything as… Digital Sucks – because it lets us be less human By Adam Tinworth Intentionally or not, the drive to reduce life friction digitally has made us more social isolated. Are we too far down that path, or can we turn back? Digital sucks – because we pay too much attention to user desires By Adam Tinworth Are we turning our users into narcissistic toddlers by catering to their every whim? Digital Sucks. But, right now, AIs are helping us making it better By Adam Tinworth In films, AIs are homicidal machines come to kill us. In reality, they're tireless assistants solving the problems we don't have time for… Digital sucks, because it doesn’t care for our bodies By Adam Tinworth Tech VC Om Malik is giving up the best phone he has ever owned, because his body can't cope with it. Digital sucks – because too many politicians don’t understand it. By Adam Tinworth Digital sucks - and governments want to regulate it. But there are sane approaches to that regulation - and dangerous ones. Digital Sucks: The NEXT17 Theme By Adam Tinworth Let's face it. Digital sucks. And its our fault. At NEXT17 we'll face that head on - and decide what to do about it. Digital Sucks! By Martin Recke Can we be honest? Digital sucks … greatly! There is a nagging feeling that a lot of all digital stuff somehow goes terribly wrong. Oftentimes, digital products simply don’t live up to their promises, leaving users in a kind of limbo between overpromise and underdelivery. Digital overload By Martin Recke People no longer welcome every new technology with open arms. Their sense of digital overload has consequences for businesses. 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. Embrace complexity as your guide through the digital darkness By Adam Tinworth Digital has not — and cannot — lead us to an utopia. So, how do we navigate the darkness of the interconnected world? The Digital Fixers that will stop us repeating tech’s mistakes By Adam Tinworth The obvious answers and fixes are not working. We need to think more deeply about building a positive, sustainable digital future than today’s wave of bandaids on a deep wound. The Purpose Economy: the step beyond the digital economy By Adam Tinworth Some ideas have to wait. Their moment of inception does not coincide well with the moment of potential adoption by the public. The purpose economy certainly feels like that. We need a Digital Fix, because we can’t work at machine speed By Adam Tinworth Computers enable real-time, instantaneous connection worldwide - and that's a huge boon. But the also operate at a relentless pace, that will crush us if we try to match it. Digital needs to grow up: and that means learning ethics By Adam Tinworth Right now, the digital world is behaving like a spoilt toddler, doing what it wants without thought of consequences. It's up to us to teach the digital world how to build new tools that are both ethical and responsible. 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! NEXT17 Summary #2: How to make digital better By Adam Tinworth So, digital sucks. How do we make it better? By pushing ourselves outside of our cosy cultural comfort zone, and learning from the edge of our societies… NEXT17 Summary #1: Where digital went wrong By Adam Tinworth For two days in September, the digital world met in Hamburg and a single question was on our lips: where did we go wrong? Here are the answers we found… Endless streams of information leads to digital hoarding By Adam Tinworth Does too much information lead to us choosing the easy option? Are we using our digital tools — or are they using us? By Adam Tinworth We've welcomed digital devices into our homes, our lives and our pockets. But have we really thought about whose agenda lies embedded in the apps we use? Uber’s crisis: digital growing pains laid bare By Adam Tinworth Uber has had a rough month, losing its CEO and a board member. But these growing pains might be a necessary part of making a disruptive startup into a sustainable business. Draining the digital swamp By Adam Tinworth When digital pioneers start deleting accounts and stepping back from Silicon Valley - you know something is up. prev 1 2 3 next
