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How generations live in their own digital worlds

By Martin Recke

Each new generation will change something, see the world differently, and bring new opportunities.
VR has made us blind to the true potential of spatial computing

By Adam Tinworth

We’ve been brainwashed by the movies of the 80s and 90s to think that spatial computing will be delivered via glasses. It’s time to open our eyes to this technology’s true potential.
Will spatial computing define the fourth cycle of personal computing?

By Martin Recke

Spatial computing, possibly the fourth paradigm of personal computing, is today where mobile was before the iPhone.
Reality mining with machine learning for maps and profit

By Adam Tinworth

Reality mining was an idea from nearly a decade ago, but its time may have finally come. Machine learning is opening up avenues of analysis and modelling that we could barely have imagined only eight years ago.
Reality Mining: How Big Tech extracts value from reality

By Martin Recke

Big Tech is mining our reality to extract value, generating enormous wealth for their shareholders. Losses and waste are socialised.
The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare

By Adam Tinworth

The paperless office hasn't arrived yet, despite decades promising that it's just round the corner. We should be glad of that. It would be terrible.
Why the Paperless Office still hasn’t arrived

By Martin Recke

While we look at screens for most of our waking hours, paper is still around and doesn't show any signs of disappearance. Why?
Festivalisation: make a conference a community that lasts

By Adam Tinworth

Festivalisation is more than just a buzzword, it's a process that brings parallel world together into a community. And it might be more important than ever in the digital world.
Why innovation fails

By Adam Tinworth

It sometimes feels like business dances to the drumbeat of innovation — but the vast majority of innovation projects fail. Why is that?
Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake

By Adam Tinworth

We need to solve our mobility problems, both for our quality of life, and to combat the climate crisis. But achieving frugal mobility involves some serious complexity…
Can smart mobility solve the commuting problem?

By Martin Recke

Why is innovation in the mobility space pretty much limited to city centres? We need a more systematic approach.
Why scientism will destroy your company’s ability to innovate

By Adam Tinworth

Our ability to quantify and measure nearly everything has grown exponentially. But that doesn't mean that the scientific methods is the best way to run product teams.
Don’t fall into the scientism trap

By Martin Recke

Product teams can be victims of scientism. With agile methods and quick iteration, you can build things fast. But you can't make sure you're building the right things.
Why Messenger Interoperability is a digital canary in the coal mine

By Adam Tinworth

Would you accept a world where you couldn't send a parcel to a client without being signed up to the same delivery service as them? Then why do you accept this in the digital world?
We need Messenger Interoperability

By Martin Recke

Messengers are still stuck in the early days, with almost no interoperability. But these days are long past.
Don’t let nostalgia strangle the Creative Age

By Adam Tinworth

The Industrial Age is done – and robots have taken the factory floor. Let's not wax nostalgic for a bygone age, but push forwards accepting the new partnership between human and digital technology.
Why imagination and creativity are primary value creators

By Martin Recke

Say goodbye to the Industrial Age. And to the Information Age as well. Here's what comes next: the Imagination Age.
Relax. Digital is efficient — so we don’t need to be

By Adam Tinworth

Are we so in love with digital that we try to emulate it? Silicon is made for efficiency — humanity isn't. Let's stop trying to be what we're not.
The game of efficiency is over

By Martin Recke

Don't worry about efficiency. Or maybe worry later. In the meantime, let's conquer the vast digital continent.
Digital is ready, it just has to be done

By Martin Recke

The post-digital world is no longer next. It already has arrived.
How to survive in the Post-Digital Era

By Adam Tinworth

What happens when digital becomes commonplace, and a new tech announcement floods us with ennui, not excitement? We're finding out, as we're firmly in the post-digital era now.
Solving the challenge of digital overwhelm: attention management

By Adam Tinworth

Transformational technology has always triggered change in multiple parallel fields. But, before now, we weren't constantly exposed to information about it. How do we focus when there's more change that we can track?
Simultaneousness or: the past, the present, the future and other fictions

By Martin Recke

Our perception of time has changed profoundly. Nowadays, things are happening all at the same time. Simultaneousness requires a new understanding of time.
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