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  Digital Fix – Fix Digital

  By Martin Recke

  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!

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  To survive rapid innovation, we need mindful adoption of technology

  By Adam Tinworth

  Change sneaks up on you. Once upon a time, the internet was about spotty nerds in their bedrooms…

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  Autonomous cars can fix road deaths – if we don’t rush them onto the roads too fast

  By Adam Tinworth

  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?

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  To fix digital, learn from today’s failure of innovation — and do it better

  By Adam Tinworth

  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.

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  Can Innovation get us out of the current mess?

  By Martin Recke

  Do we need more innovation? Do we need less, or slower innovation? Or do we need other kinds of innovation?

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  Yes, Facebook needs regulating. But let’s do it carefully, and do it right.

  By Adam Tinworth

  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?

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  With Regulation on the Rise, is there a Future for the Online Marketing Industry?

  By Martin Recke

  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.

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  We let tech make us small. Elon Musk is helping us dream big again.

  By Adam Tinworth

  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…

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  On Humans and Machines

  By Martin Recke

  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…

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  In Search of a Culprit

  By Martin Recke

  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.

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  Amongst SXSW 2018’s parties, there’s serious work to be done

  By Adam Tinworth

  Today, one of the world’s longest-running festivals of technology and digital culture kicks off – SXSW Interactive…

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  Power to the People

  By Martin Recke

  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.

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  Hello, Goodbye: making smart decisions about the digital tools we let into our lives

  By Adam Tinworth

  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.

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  We need to take up our responsibilities

  By Martin Recke

  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.

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  Is the dream of the good digital citizen dead?

  By Adam Tinworth

  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.

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  Change how we travel, change the world

  By Adam Tinworth

  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.

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  Mobility as a Service: a Network to Rule All Networks

  By Martin Recke

  Mobility as a service won't arrive overnight. But in the long run, this model will probably dominate.

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  Will there be a mobility backlash, too?

  By Alexander Cohrs

  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?

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  Are you enhancing people’s experiences – or addicting them to your product?

  By Adam Tinworth

  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.

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  RIP John Perry Barlow, warrior for digital freedoms

  By Adam Tinworth

  John Perry Barlow, who died yesterday, was one of the great early visionaries about the potential of digital: and its terrible risks.

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  The Dopamine Loop is Dead. Long Live the Experience Loop!

  By Martin Recke

  It's clearly not enough to simply hack human psychology. We need more sustainable models.

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  The future of work is flexibility: of culture, skills and attitude

  By Adam Tinworth

  Work is changing. Our management styles need to change to match — and so does our sense of what an "a" grade player looks like.

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  Can We Design for Wellbeing?

  By Pamela Pavliscak

  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.

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