This is the end. Of truth?

By Martin Recke

The reports of the truth’s death are an exaggeration. Rather, we’re witnessing the end of our current regime of truth.

Our Fragile Now

By Adam Tinworth

The certainties of the post-war economic and political order are now as historic as the World Wars themselves. How do we survive and thrive in a fragile now?

This is the end. Of our illusions.

By Martin Recke

It’s time to face a new reality and abandon some of our favourite illusions about politics, technology, and the economy.

This is the end. Embrace it.

By Adam Tinworth

It’s a fundemental truth of life – of existence – that things end. But those who are prepared for that can take advantage of what comes next.

Razor’s Edge

By Martin Recke

After chaos comes confusion, or even disorder. Are we living in a world on the razor’s edge? What’s the way out?

The time regimes they are a-changin’

By Martin Recke

Time has collapsed into the tyranny of the moment. There is no time for anything. We barely understand what’s happening.

Is AI the new digital?

By Martin Recke

Generative AI, or general intelligence, is a paradigm shift that will fundamentally restructure the inner workings of digital computing. A new round of IT growth is likely to emerge.

What will the office of 2030 look like?

By Adam Tinworth

Both technological and demographic trends are reshaping the way we work — and who is available to do that work. Time to start preparing.

Doing business in the permacrisis

By Adam Tinworth

The re-election of Donald Trump reminds us that the bonfire of the incumbents is ripping through our political systems. Will our businesses be the next victims of the permacrisis?

2024’s most energising insights from our digital futures

By Adam Tinworth

We published dozens of insights into future trends in 2024. Which ones caught your imagination? It’s all about AI, politics, and the merger of physical and digital…

Teens, social media and the parent trap

By Adam Tinworth

Today’s teens are tomorrow’s consumers, and the social media backlash is likely to reshape their relationship with digital services in ways we need to pay attention to.

NEXT24: Decentralise power structures to give society new energy

By Adam Tinworth

The internet is a decentralising technology we’ve used to centralise digital power. Can we unleash its full potential and reshape our society through decentralisation?

NEXT24: energising the future with AI as… plumbing?

By Adam Tinworth

We’re thinking too small and too pessimistically about AI. It’s our next level of digital infrastructure and the NEXT24 speakers gave us a glimpse of the creativity that could unleash.

The rise of information networks

By Martin Recke

A recap of NEXT24 through the lens of networks and their rise, from computers to the brain, from democracy to energy.

About energy

By Wilhelm Rinke

This is an invitation to speculate about the future.

Exploring the frontier of new interfaces

By Adam Tinworth

Where is AI going next? How far and fast with biocomputing develop? And what will the next wave of interfaces look like? A panel discussion from NEXT24.

Personal Energy: the human opportunity in the energy transition

By Adam Tinworth

What is the internet of energy? And why is it inevitable? A fireside chat from NEXT24 about the future of the energy transition.

Timmy Ghiurãu: new technology, new energy, new futures

By Adam Tinworth

How do you incorparate emerging technlogy into your business? By rethinking the very narratives of the job your products are doing, says Volvo’s Timmy Ghiurãu.