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Why AI second selves will be your greatest mentor — and opponent

By Adam Tinworth

If you don’t want AI to replace you, you need to use it to make you better at what you do, argues artist Harry Yeff in conversation with Accenture Song’s Mette Stannow.
Harry Yeff: Exciting discussion about the power of AI

A conversation surrounds AI as a valuable tool for professionals in various fields, exploring the major fears and concerns surrounding AI and the significance of education and reshaping narratives to make AI more approachable and less intimidating.
Digital overload

By Martin Recke

People no longer welcome every new technology with open arms. Their sense of digital overload has consequences for businesses.
Escaping the Meh-diocracy trap

By Adam Tinworth

The tech and movie innovation of the 2010s seems to have lapsed into a dull morass of “me too” products. A downturn is the perfect time to re-ignite creativity.
Can AIs have consciousness?

By Adam Tinworth

To explore the idea of AI consciousness, we first have to understand the human version of it. And, as Anil Seth and Thomas Mueller explore, that’s more complicated than you think.
Anil Seth: Exploring the Mysteries of Consciousness with Anil Seth

Join Anil Seth and Thomas Müller as they discuss the brain as a prediction machine, shaping our conscious experiences and challenging our understanding of the world.
The next interface

By Martin Recke

Generative AI has triggered the great interface shift, changing the way we interact with digital systems. The implications for brands are huge.
Love and money: marketing through a downturn

By Adam Tinworth

The relationship between brands a consumer has been pitched as one of care and passion. But when an economic downturn bites, consumers find themselves asking “where’s the love?”
The AI/Human Interface: experiments in action

By Adam Tinworth

AI has come at us fast — faster than we’ve been able to figure out how to use it. Matt Webb and Petr Janda explain how playful experiments can fix that.
Matt Webb: Exploring AI personalities and poetic clocks

AI has reached us fast - faster than we could figure out how to use it. Explore the future of AI and its potential to revolutionise the way we interact with technology.
David Mattin: the trends that will define our future

By Adam Tinworth

Trends are tricky things: they rarely turn out how you expect. But David Mattin makes them work for businesses by focusing on the human tab the heart of them. Here's how.
David Mattin: Exploring the Intersection of Trends, Emerging Technologies, and Social Change

Trends are ever-evolving and understanding them can be a game-changer for your business. Join David Mattin and Isabelle Schnellbügel, as they discuss the profound impacts of societal and business transformations.
The Hives and the creative urge

By Adam Tinworth

On stage at NEXT, The Hives’s Pelle Almqvist talked to Fabian Frese about their creative process, and how drugs, money and AI impact it…
The digital-physical merger

By Martin Recke

The next big thing isn’t AI itself, but the interplay of intelligence, data, networks/computing and energy.
Augmented realities for lizard brains

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT23 gave us a roadmap to a blended physical and digital world but warned that our brains might not be ready for these new realities.
NEXT23: AI as Assistive Intelligence

By Adam Tinworth

In our first exploration of the emergent themes of NEXT23, we look at the AI trailblazers, who have been exploring the intersection of creativity and AI for years.
How can marketers end greenwashing and embrace the blue economy?

By Adam Tinworth

Solving the climate crisis requires action on multiple front. Can marketers use their skills to unlock the change we need? A NEXT23 deep dive explored this issue…
“Second Self”: The Art of AI and Augmented Relationships

Second Self is an ongoing art and science project directed by world-renowned beatboxer Harry Yeff aka Reeps100.
Harry Yeff: building the digital Second Self

By Adam Tinworth

Can AI be a creative assistant, mentor and even opponent? Harry Yeff thinks so, and he wants us to embrace a narrative of hope.
The False Promise of Optimisation

Optimisation is the driving principle of our modern world.
Coco Krumme: putting the optimisation mindset in its place

By Adam Tinworth

Have we been seduced by optimisation to such a degree that we can no longer see its limits? Coco Krumme argues that that's esactly what's happened.
Inclusive Innovation, the Journey towards Building Inclusively

Learn five key themes to inclusive innovation, using Google’s supporting people with disabilities to tell the story.
Christopher Patnoe: the four secrets of inclusive innovation

By Adam Tinworth

Making your products accessible to people with disabilities shouldn't be an afterthought, it should be built into your design process, says Google's Christopher Patnoe
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Insights

Why AI second selves will be your greatest mentor — and opponent

Harry Yeff: Exciting discussion about the power of AI

Digital overload

Escaping the Meh-diocracy trap

Can AIs have consciousness?

Anil Seth: Exploring the Mysteries of Consciousness with Anil Seth

The next interface

Love and money: marketing through a downturn

The AI/Human Interface: experiments in action

Matt Webb: Exploring AI personalities and poetic clocks

David Mattin: the trends that will define our future

David Mattin: Exploring the Intersection of Trends, Emerging Technologies, and Social Change

The Hives and the creative urge

The digital-physical merger

Augmented realities for lizard brains

NEXT23: AI as Assistive Intelligence

How can marketers end greenwashing and embrace the blue economy?

“Second Self”: The Art of AI and Augmented Relationships

Harry Yeff: building the digital Second Self

The False Promise of Optimisation

Coco Krumme: putting the optimisation mindset in its place

Inclusive Innovation, the Journey towards Building Inclusively

Christopher Patnoe: the four secrets of inclusive innovation

Stay up to date!