Future Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close Davos beyond the noise: Four forces shaping the next decade By Adam Tinworth How the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Annual Meeting pointed beyond personalities to the structural pressures defining the future. From Vegas to the Alps: what January innovation conferences reveal about processing transformation By Martin Recke CES, then DLD, then Davos. Products, reflection, policy. The sequence reveals more than the individual events. The impact of AI on new interfaces Step into the future of human-technology interaction with this exciting panel at NEXT Conference. Discover how smart glasses, wearable tech,… Warmth of the Setting Sun: Belief, Agency, and Identity at the End of the Digital Experience As one phase of our digital lives comes to an end, what warmth remains? What aspects of our identity, agency… Humanoid Robots and the Future of Interaction Humanoid robots are moving from industrial tools into social and everyday settings, raising important questions about how we interact with… Consciousness and Our Evolving Relationship with AI Join award-winning neuroscientist Dr Hannah Critchlow for an interactive session exploring the future of human intelligence and our… 2025: The year we stopped pretending By Martin Recke Everything is ending at once – work, truth, screens, and even certainty itself. But we’re finally mature enough to see endings as thresholds. Here’s what we’ve learnt. The end of digital and the dawn of a new era of creativity By Adam Tinworth Threaded throught the talks and workshops of NEXT25 was a vision for humanity’s new role in the age of AI. The winners will be the first to grasp it… The future of robotics By Adam Tinworth Robots are already at work in our factories, in our manufacturing facilities – and our care homes. Can AI accelerate their use? A NEXT25 panel certainly thought so… The invisible infrastructure revolution: how AI and markets are quietly winning the energy transition By Martin Recke The energy transition is succeeding invisibly. AI infrastructure and market economics are driving the shift to clean energy faster than policy ever could. The age of multiple endings: when everything that stands begins to fall By Martin Recke Are we witnessing the end of modernity? The post-war order, neoliberal globalisation, shared truth, and work are dissolving. We inhabit the interregnum. Creativity: a new beginning By Adam Tinworth How do keep creative in the age of AI? By embracing vulnerability, uncertainty, and complexity – or so a NEXT25 workshop concluded. Nina Jankowicz – AI and Great Power Competition As artificial intelligence becomes a cornerstone of economic and military power, it is increasingly deployed by anti-democratic actors around the… David Mattin – Opening Keynote | And the Beginning Join our keynoter in residence, David Mattin, as he opened the NEXT Conference with a thought-provoking keynote on how AI… What comes after the website? By Adam Tinworth Will AI be the final nail in the coffin of websites? If so, what branded experiences will replace it? AI is making ageing optional By Martin Recke How AI and longevity science are revolutionising healthcare – from reversing ageing to 80% reductions in death rates. The future is now. Innovation in Motion: Green energy, mobility and the future of transport By Martin Recke How BYD and Octopus Energy are transforming electric cars into active participants in the energy and mobility landscape. Shaping the future of urban mobility: Voices from the road ahead By Martin Recke Smart cities need mindset, standards, and openness to reshape urban mobility – insights on tech, policy, and user experience from the German experience. Endings as thresholds: NEXT25’s search for what comes after By Martin Recke NEXT25 reimagined endings – from AI and creativity to screens and agency – and found new possibilities in our shifting digital world. End of the Screen: Exploring New Interfaces By Adam Tinworth What happens when our digital interfaces move into our glasses – or our clothes? A panel discussion at NEXT 25 sought to explore just that. Joe Macleod: Belief, Agency, and Identity at the End of the Digital Experience By Adam Tinworth It’s the end. But it’s not been prepared for. What can we learn from better endings? Humanoid Robots and the Future of Interaction By Adam Tinworth Robots that can learn. Robots that can respond to emotion. Robots that can solve labour force gaps. Are we looking at a robotic future? Hannah Critchlow: Consciousness and our evolving relationship with AI By Adam Tinworth What makes the human brain special in the AI era? The answer lies in the way it changes when we start working in groups… prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 11 next