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19/04/2018
If anything is in need of a digital fix right now, it's Facebook. Can the social network be remade in a more privacy-centric form? Or is the fix actually a replacement?
By Adam Tinworth
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13/04/2018
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!
By Martin Recke
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11/04/2018
Change sneaks up on you. Once upon a time, the internet was about spotty nerds in their bedrooms — if you believed popular culture and the media in particular — and Instagram was about what you had for lunch. An eye blink later, and social networks are the battleground for…
By Adam Tinworth
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05/04/2018
In recent weeks, autonomous cars have been responsible for the deaths of a pedestrian and a driver. Are we moving too fast with this innovation?
By Adam Tinworth
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29/03/2018
There's a real temptation to turn our backs on technology when things go wrong. That would be a mistake. Innovations cannot be uninvented - so we need to learn from them and move forwards.
By Adam Tinworth
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27/03/2018
Do we need more innovation? Do we need less, or slower innovation? Or do we need other kinds of innovation?
By Martin Recke
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23/03/2018
A new set of revelations about how the data Facebook collects on you has been used makes it more likely than ever that governments will act to regulate the company more directly. But can we get this right?
By Adam Tinworth
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22/03/2018
Government regulation is not only seen in a much more positive light now, it is also widely regarded as an urgently needed fix for the digital woes our societies suffer from.
By Martin Recke
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16/03/2018
Once the talk of SXSW was new apps and social networks. Now, it's Elon Musk and rockets. The wheel of tech is turning towards the big tech again, and that's exciting…
By Adam Tinworth
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13/03/2018
Technology is interwoven with every aspect of our lives, but the promises of digital transformation – we are not there yet. We are not even close…
By Martin Recke
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10/03/2018
In 2018, it seems to be common sense that some things in our (digital) world are out of control. What's less clear is who or what is responsible for the mess, not to mention how to fix it.
By Martin Recke
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09/03/2018
Today, one of the world’s longest-running festivals of technology and digital culture kicks off – SXSW Interactive 2018. SXSW has some similarities with NEXT – it’s a digital festival tucked into the heart of a music and cultural festival. That said, its scale is larger, and its history longer.
By Adam Tinworth
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02/03/2018
The people formerly known as consumers are more powerful than ever, but the digital platforms that enable their power are even more powerful. Still, consumers need to exercise their power.
By Martin Recke
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01/03/2018
Digital communities and digital companies are supported by those who chose to use them. If we don't like the digital world we've built, we need to start exercising our consumer choices in smarter ways.
By Adam Tinworth
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23/02/2018
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.
By Martin Recke
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22/02/2018
A little more local organising, a little less polarised ranting on the international stage might be exactly the digital fix we need to today’s political woes. In this, perhaps we can start learning from our children.
By Adam Tinworth
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16/02/2018
Self-driving vehicles will reshape more than the automotive: they have the potential to change everything from retail to the very fabric of our cities.
By Adam Tinworth
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15/02/2018
Mobility as a service won't arrive overnight. But in the long run, this model will probably dominate.
By Martin Recke
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13/02/2018
Will the tech backlash drive the self-driving, electric car revolution off the roads, too? Or are there fundamental differences in how this market operates?
By Alexander Cohrs
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09/02/2018
There’s a deep, deep difference between the sorts of products that try to addict us into making themselves central in our lives, and those that just serve us.
By Adam Tinworth
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08/02/2018
John Perry Barlow, who died yesterday, was one of the great early visionaries about the potential of digital: and its terrible risks.
By Adam Tinworth
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08/02/2018
It's clearly not enough to simply hack human psychology. We need more sustainable models.
By Martin Recke
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02/02/2018
Work is changing. Our management styles need to change to match — and so does our sense of what an "a" grade player looks like.
By Adam Tinworth
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31/01/2018
Remember not so long ago, when tech was supposed to make our lives better? While that still may be true, it's no longer the whole story.
By Pamela Pavliscak