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Politics, polarisation and uncertainty — unpicking a complex problem

By Adam Tinworth

It's clear that we need to act on political manipulation of digital – but, unless we do it in a considered way, we could very easily make it worse.
Our last chance to avoid digital dystopia

By Adam Tinworth

Digital is slowly destroying our democracies. Can we act now to preserve digital freedoms and reconnect the body politic?
The parallel worlds of publishing

By Martin Recke

The book publishing industry is a parallel world in its own right. How fitting to publish a book about Parallelwelten.
Divide and rule: the dark side of parallel digital cultures

By Adam Tinworth

The internet can seduce us into like-minded bubbles of people like us. But isolate communities can be easily influenced, and turned down a darker path…
The real digital revolution

By Martin Recke

Democratising digital will require a real digital revolution: an ownership right on personal data.
Building a politics fit for innovation

By Adam Tinworth

If you believe in innovation as a cycle rather than as an event, it profoundly changes how you can plan for it. And getting that right might define which parts of the world prosper in the coming decades.
The parallel worlds of culture

By Martin Recke

Digital cultures are fundamentally different not only from mass culture of the 20th century, but also from each other. They'll probably develop a new kind of public sphere.
Purpose and profit are the twin hearts of sustainable business

By Adam Tinworth

Today's digital workers crave more than position and profit - they want purpose in their work. And building your strategy around business with purpose may just be a competitive advantage in the battle for talent.
Different types of innovation

By Martin Recke

There are different types of innovation, depending on the product lifecycle. But Apple remains the exception that proves the rule.
What’s the purpose of business?

By Martin Recke

In a world of overwhelming complexity, it isn't easy to find the purpose of business. We shouldn't veil our confusion.
The digital is inescapably political: it’s time to accept that

By Adam Tinworth

The digital evangelists of the 1990s saw cyberspace as a haven safe from the politics of the "real" world. They could not have been more wrong — and we're still paying for their mistake.
Democratising digital

By Martin Recke

We are in deep need of digital democracy. But it's not about digitising democracy, but democratising digital.
Complexity will continue to drive change

By Martin Recke

Complexity can be both a blessing and a curse. Together with its VUCA siblings, it will continue to drive change.
Reclaim the future by embracing complexity: the core message of NEXT19

By Adam Tinworth

"We can fix this! Simple!" is the most dangerous lie we can tell ourselves. In an era of increasing technological and environmental risk, we'll only solve our problems by embracing complexity. This was one of the core messages of #NEXT19
NEXT19 Recap: embracing complexity and rethinking humanity

By Adam Tinworth

It was implicit in the theme of parallel worlds, but it was explicit on stage: we need to embrace complexity and reject simplistic thinking to navigate the societal storms ahead. Was this the most challenging NEXT to date?
How Connected Living unifies digital parallel worlds

By Georg R. Rötzer, VP Corporate Marketing Samsung Electronics

NEXT19 was all about 'Parallelwelten' (= parallel worlds). One of the most important technology trends of 2019, 'Connected Living' - also seems to be a sort of parallel world.
The right things to do

By Martin Recke

Doing the right things implies that we know what the right things are. Overwhelming complexity makes this a challenge.
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?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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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