Insights My summertime reading book list By Matthias Schrader Matthias Schrader stacked up his personal list of thought-leading book picks for this summer. The time to talk about the future is before you need it By Scott Smith The only way to prepare for difficult futures is to talk about them — in detail. In an extract from his new book 'How To Future' regular NEXT speaker Scott Smith argues that we need 'prehearsals' of the major challenges ahead. A green recovery is our best hope of staving off the climate crisis By Adam Tinworth And it might just prove the biggest business opportunity in the Covid-19 recession, too. Money for nothing By Martin Recke Money is not what it seems. What it is exactly has changed a lot in the past, and continues to change today. Let's try to wrap our head around it. We’ve just been given the best opportunity to rethink mobility in decades. Let’s use it. By Adam Tinworth Fewer commutes. More electric cars. Fewer train journeys. More cycle lanes. A scooter boom. Covid-19 is forcing us to rethink how we travel – and that's a huge opportunity to reshape our lives – and to create new businesses. Harnessing innovations: Efosa Ojomo’s framework for saving your business By Adam Tinworth Understanding which innovations could help grow your business is critical to escaping the coming economic storm. Efosa Ojomo's research points the way forward. Digital divide and new realities By NEXT Conference Every week David Mattin and Monique van Dusseldorp take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last. Digital health is our future: let’s deliver it safely. By Adam Tinworth The lockdown has forced rapid adoption of digital health techniques - if it's here to stay, let's do it right. VICE’s Mark Adams on harnessing the power of networks to regenerate brands By Adam Tinworth VICE's head of innovation believes that if you watch the networks, you can spot the tsunamis of cultural change coming your way and adapt before they hit. New and synthetic media By NEXT Conference Every week David Mattin and Monique van Dusseldorp take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last. Post-pandemic product design is systems design By Martin Recke Product design has been systems design for a while, but the current crisis has made it obvious. Times of crisis call for more design, not less. Payal Arora: How do we put the human in the global value chains? By Adam Tinworth The pandemic has proved we need to rethink the global value chains. But how can we do that until we acknowledge the systemic problems with the old approach? How the big event unbundling changes everything By Martin Recke Big events are bundles, and these bundles have been unbundling for a while. This changes everything, from the event experience to the business models. The world around us is changing – may it be the mirrorworld or real world. By NEXT Conference Every week David Mattin and Monique van Dusseldorp take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last. Ben Sauer on the metaphors we need to navigate a crisis By Adam Tinworth We need frameworks to navigate times of crisis. But the metaphors we choose can have a profound effect on the solutions we create, argued Ben Sauer. Here's how to avoid being shackled by the concepts of the past. Post-Pandemic Consumerism: shaping the future with our (contactless) wallets By Adam Tinworth As lockdowns eases, and businesses start trading again, the choices we make will help reshape our economies. It's time for mindful consumerism to shine. Douglas Rushkoff on reclaiming digital for Team Human in the post-pandemic world By Adam Tinworth We surrendered digital to the financial markets in the 1990s, argued Douglas Rushkoff during his interview on 'What's NEXT'. The current crisis offers us an opportunity to rethink everything from media to education. Here's how. Video communication, the big 5, facial recognition and yes, flying cars By NEXT Conference Every week we take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last. Three shifts for the next ten years By David Mattin We all know that we’re at a moment of great complexity. Much is uncertain, and no one has a crystal ball. Unwarranted certainty is the first enemy of any attempt to think about the future. Sohail Inayatullah on envisaging the post-pandemic future By Adam Tinworth You don't predict the post-pandemic future - you create it. That was Sohail Inayatullah's thesis as our latest guest on What's NEXT, gave us the tools we need to build the narrative of a better future. #BlackLivesMatter, beautiful distancing and niche entertainment By NEXT Conference Every week we take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last. Welcome to globalisation’s two-speed future By Adam Tinworth Unwinding globalisation would be hard, slow and financially ruinous. It won't happen. But it can — and will — change in unexpected ways. Globalisation is dead, long live digital globalisation By Martin Recke Let's face the inevitable: The old model of globalisation is dead. 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