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…

Nina Jankowicz: AI and Great Power Competition: from Exploitation to Resilience

By Adam Tinworth

AI is accelerating the spread of misinformation – and people are trying to corrupt LLMs. How do we fight back?

David Mattin: This is the end… and a beginning

By Adam Tinworth

What’s left for humans when AI can do most of our work? David Mattin provided some answers at NEXT25.

When robots begin to mirror us

By Martin Recke

Humanoid robots are evolving into social actors. How are design, trust and open-source reshaping our relationship with machines?

Urban space: the new culture design frontier

By Adam Tinworth

AI has wrenched our attention back to the devices in our hands. But let’s not forget the need to live in physical spaces that meet today’s needs.

Into the wild internet

By Martin Recke

Today, the internet is more of a monoculture than the diverse, wild ecosystem it used to be. How can we rewild it?

Delaying the End: How the Longevity Movement is Making Us Rethink Aging

By Joshua Kongmany

Longevity is no longer about tacking on years to our lives; it’s about improving the quality of the years we live. With the help of technology, personalized medicine, and bioscience, consumers are taking charge of their health, and a new era of aging is emerging.

Being present at the end: with empathy, memory, and a better business. 

By Joe Macleod

We obsess over the beginning of relationships – personal and commercial – but do little to prepare for their ending. That’s a mistake – and a missed opportunity.

Why creatives are the new weavers

By Adam Tinworth

The creative industries are feeling the shock of digital disruption like never before. Change is inevitable – so where do human creatives go next?

Composable or Commoditised: Why Agentic AI Commerce Demands MACH Foundations

By Jasmin Guthmann

If you're going to make the most of Agentic AI, you need to let it free. And that means getting to grips with MACH and MCP…

This is the end. Of work?

By Martin Recke

Some people are afraid that AI will put an end to work, while others hope that it will. However, this is highly unlikely.

Beyond EVs: the opportunity for a new vision of decarbonised mobility

By Adam Tinworth

The carrot and the stick may be two ways of motivating a donkey – but which will deliver the decarbonised mobility infrastructure we need?

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 fundamental 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?