Future Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close Which world are we building? By Martin Recke AI is completing a long-running conversion of human agency into automated execution. Which world are we building, and for whom? The Metaverse: why it ended up as yesterday’s tomorrow By Adam Tinworth Whatever happened to the metaverse? Less than five years ago, it was the future of technology. Has its day come and gone? Keeping the human in the machine: navigating towards the post-AI future By Adam Tinworth AI is here, and can't be uninvented. But the way it impacts society isn't pre-ordained. It's up to us. What is post-AI? By Adam Tinworth And what will the post-AI world look like? We can’t predict our AI future, we can only live it By Adam Tinworth We’re hitting peak prediction in the AI hype cycle. But are predictions what we really need? In between: living in permanent liminality By Martin Recke Strategic planning assumes disruption is temporary. But what if permanent disruption is the new ground state? How to build when the threshold never ends. 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. prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 11 next