Blog

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  Thomas Webb: VR and the future of society

  By Adam Tinworth

  Technology is very close to magic, if you do it right. But who is the magician behind the curtain of today's technology?

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  Ben Sauer: making the case for slower digital decisions

  By Adam Tinworth

  The digital world has become obsessed by speed. But sometimes, when you move fast you break things…

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  Marcello Schermer: why the future is being built in Africa

  By Adam Tinworth

  Africa is fixing its own problems - and the products it is creating have the potential to achieve global scale.

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  Efosa Ojomo: understanding the cycle of innovation

  By Adam Tinworth

  You build a very different style of innovation when your factor in access as a key goal. Africa is producing democratised products that will change the digital world.

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  Payal Arora: dispelling the myths about the next billion

  By Adam Tinworth

  The next billion internet users are not the people we think they are. Let's bust the myths about them so we can understand the coming world.

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  Christian Mio Loclair: how art helps us understand AI and our own humanity

  By Adam Tinworth

  As AI gets better and better at more things, and deep learning starts creating art - what still makes us human? Does the answer lie in a child’s artwork?

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  Building speculative leadership to protect future generations

  By Adam Tinworth

  We’re trapped by short term, siloed thinking - and it’s going to kill us all. Two NEXT19 speakers show us the way out of the trap we’ve built for ourselves.

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  Eliza Filby: Generational intelligence and how it shapes society

  By Adam Tinworth

  Social and economic conditions help define the characteristics of each generation. What can we learn about them - and what does that teach us about how we raise Generation Alpha?

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  NEXT19 and the climate strike

  By Adam Tinworth

  Today is the beginning of the Climate Strike and, while we're not shutting the conference, we are making sure that the climate crisis is on the agenda.

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  Generation Z in China and Germany – bridging the Parallelwelten

  By Adam Tinworth

  The digital worlds of Generation Z in China and Germany are worlds apart. A NEXT19 panel chaired by Accenture Ventures' Mei Wang dug deep into the cultural and historic factors that create the difference.

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  Söhnke Christiansen: building compelling new realities

  By Adam Tinworth

  We have the technology now to create compelling, immersive digital worlds. But how do you do it right? Here's three lessons from market leaders Mackevision.

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  David Mattin: addressing complexity with a new model of humanity

  By Adam Tinworth

  We are being overwhelmed by complexity - and it's fracturing our societies. We need to update our model of humanity if we're to have any chance of reversing this.

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  James Bridle: Manoeuvers for a New Dark Age

  By Adam Tinworth

  We're entering a new dark age, where technology obscures, rather than clarifies. How do we cope — and survive?

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  Rogier Creemers: Digital China’s unexpected competitive advantage

  By Adam Tinworth

  How is China innovating so fast? The government has restrained its authoritarian impulses and let the digital industries thrive - and they may be best placed to capture the next billion people to go online.

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  Viveca Chan: what marketers can learn from digital China

  By Adam Tinworth

  Forget China being a country of copycats. It's now leading the way on digitally-integrated living, and Viveca Chan explains what we must learn from it.

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  TL Taylor: live-streaming is building a new creative culture

  By Adam Tinworth

  Why do people watch others play games? Why do people make their private play public? TL Taylor's answers to those questions hint at a profound cultural shift.

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  Jamie Susskind: the power and politics of digital

  By Adam Tinworth

  We can't afford to just pay attention to the consumer impact of digital. It's creating rules that will define how we live, suggests Jamie Susskind at NEXT19.

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  Brian Whipple: driving progress with purpose

  By Adam Tinworth

  50 years ago we put a man on the moon. Yet, in some critical areas, we haven't advanced in 20 years. Can we apply purpose to make the world better - and our businesses with it?

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  James Beacham: what’s outside our universe?

  By Adam Tinworth

  We may not know what is outside the universe - but asking the big questions matters.

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  Fragmentation and the cycles of hysteria

  By Martin Recke

  Tech amplifies both globalisation and fragmentation, thus putting politics and the nation state under pressure. We need a better understanding of politics.

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  Digital Divide: can we innovate without excluding?

  By Anna Allen

  If we're not more mindful in our innovation, the pace of digital change is going to leave the poorest unable to catch up. Do you want to be responsible for greater marginalisation?

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  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?

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  Big Questions

  By Martin Recke

  We shouldn't be afraid to ask big questions and work on answers. So what's beyond our universe?

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