Harper Reed on community and systems to combat a global crisis

By Adam Tinworth

What does a technologist with a history of public service do in the face of a global crisis? Gather a community, and figure out how you can help — at least, that was the approach taken by Harper Reed. Here's a summary of his interview on What's NEXT?

Digital is becoming photo realistic plus the creation of new job profiles and leisure time activities

By NEXT Conference

Five glimpses into our digital near future, curated by Monique van Dusseldorp and David Mattin.

How work from home is changing everything

By Martin Recke

With the office no longer the default place of work, everything changes. The effects of work from home on commuting, living, real estate, work itself and the office can be tremendous.

The Real Estate reset: how we’ll live and work in 2030

By Adam Tinworth

Most of us haven't commuted for two months. What if that sticks? What if working from home becomes the norm? Simple: it'll be the biggest transformation in urban living in nearly two centuries.

Benedict Evans on paths to the New Normal

By Adam Tinworth

After the lockdown ends, we'll be in a new normal. Benedict Evans joined us on new digital show 'What's NEXT' to explore the path towards that new life.

Social distancing robots, adversarial t-shirts and more…

By NEXT Conference

Seven glimpses into our digital near future, curated by Monique van Dusseldorp and David Mattin.

A new round of surveillance

By Martin Recke

Surveillance capitalism could lead the way to the surveillance state. Digital contact tracing, once introduced, won't go away any time soon.

The Great Reset

By David Mattin

'New World Same Humans' is a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by our favourite keynote speaker David Mattin. Read his take on the Great Reset.

New models of global cooperation are needed: what we learnt from David Mattin

By Adam Tinworth

How do we turn a moment of crisis into a moment of opportunity? Our new weekly show explored new models of global co-operation as we rebuild our economies.

Is Capitalism having a mid-life crisis?

By Martin Recke

The future of capitalism depends on what's scarce and what's abundant, and who owns the means of production. Let's talk about the new scarcities: attention and experience.

The end of business as usual

By Martin Recke

Roughly every decade, someone announces the end of business as usual. But somehow, business always continues, and with some changes, finds a new normal.

Escaping innovation’s go-slow is our next challenge

By Adam Tinworth

True, genuine, world-shaping innovation has slowed to a snail's pace. Understanding the reasons why – and correcting for them – may be humanity's next great work.

Did innovation (and productivity growth) really slow down?

By Martin Recke

We live in a time of accelerating innovation, don't we? So why is it that economists can't measure it? Quite the opposite – productivity growth has been slow for decades.

Are you ready for the big reboot?

By Adam Tinworth

When you instruct a computer to Halt and Catch Fire, you lock it into an accelerated state where it needs to be rebooted to be useful again. Our societies are heading for a reboot – are you ready to make the changes you need?

Halt and Catch Fire

By Martin Recke

The end of business as usual. Let’s hard reset and spark the new.

Embrace the Pause: time to plan and prepare for what comes next

By Adam Tinworth

The world as we knew it is on pause. When we unpause, the story will not play out how we once thought it would. There’s no escaping this pause, or that future, so all we can do is embrace and, perhaps, steer it.

The Great Pause

By Martin Recke

We live in strange times. A lot of things we took for granted suddenly but slowly disappeared. We find ourselves in a time of unexpected pause.

Digital doesn’t suck: how responsibility makes all the difference

By Adam Tinworth

All of a sudden, digital has gone from a curse to a boon, as the world rediscovers the immense value of online connections. Can we carry that new-found sense of responsibility into the post-viral world?

With great power comes great responsibility

By Martin Recke

The Peter Parker principle has never been more relevant than today. Power is redistributed, and thus responsibility must adapt.

Behaviour change is hard, but if we don’t evolve, we die

By Adam Tinworth

We like things to stay they way they are. But a crisis can trigger behaviour change that we wouldn't contemplate at other times. Welcome to today.

A global experiment of behaviour change

By Martin Recke

Given the right impetus, behaviour change can be fast. With the coronavirus crisis, we are witnessing a massive reshuffle of behaviour.

An Update on – Nils Wollny

By NEXT Conference

What are the many exciting NEXT personalities doing today? Here's some news about Nils Wollny, formerly Audi, who was a speaker at NEXT16.

The road to decarbonised energy is paved with… stories?

By Adam Tinworth

Too much of the climate change discussion is taken up with doom and gloom. We need to start telling more inspiring stories of our green energy future.