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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?
Snap Back to Reality: Timmy Ghiurãu on XR’s Power to Transform the Automotive World

Explore how Extended Reality (XR) is reshaping the automotive industry, from design and engineering to safety, sustainability, and everyday operations.
Exploring Brain-Computer Interfaces: Maryam Alimardani at NEXT24

Explore the transformative potential of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), highlighting how AI is enabling thought-controlled devices to enhance mobility, revolutionise education, gaming, and sports, while addressing ethical challenges and individual differences.
The Future of Intelligence: Andy Kitchen on Embodied AI

Explore the groundbreaking concept of Embodied AI, where neural tissue grown on electrodes learns and adapts like living organisms, offering transformative potential for personalised medicine, drug discovery, and a deeper understanding of cognition.
Reflections on Inclusive AI: Payal Arora at NEXT24

Explore the transformative potential of inclusive AI in the Global South, highlighting initiatives like IndiaStack that empower local entrepreneurs and drive digital inclusion for a more optimistic and innovative future.
Democracy is Dead. Long Live Democracy! Jon Alexander on the Citizen Age

Discover how shifting from the consumer mindset to a participatory citizen narrative can restore trust, foster cooperation, and shape a resilient, inclusive future.
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.
Jon Alexander: Democracy is dead, long live Democracy!

By Adam Tinworth

It’s time for a cultural shift. The consumer age needs to give way to the citizen age — or something worse will take its place.
Andy Kitchen: Embodied AI, the one body problem

By Adam Tinworth

Forget digital AI. Here comes the minibrain: neural tissue grown on electrodes, that’s created embodied AI.
Maryam Alimardani: the next frontier of human cognition

By Adam Tinworth

Bridging the brain and the computer is the next step in interface design — and AI is helping make it happen.
Payal Arora: Positive provocations on designing inclusive AI

By Adam Tinworth

The Global South is young, excited and innovative. The West is gloomy, but rich and free. We need to work together to build a better future, says Payal Arora.
How GenAI can supercharge smart cities

By Adam Tinworth

Generative AI is shaping up to be the technology that finally makes smart cities truly viable.
The internet of energy

By Martin Recke

With renewable energy on the rise, the energy networks have to change profoundly. The internet can be a model here.
Can active citizens give infuse our politics with much-needed new energy?

By Adam Tinworth

Can we replace the idea of “voter” with that of a “citizen”? We may need to, if we want to deal with society’s biggest challenges.
Physical AI might be the truly transformative technology

By Adam Tinworth

Applying AI to human creativity is one thing, applying it to the physical world something quite different. Are you ready for Physical AI?
The Tech Boom Doom cycle

By Adam Tinworth

From hype to fear, digital innovation is trapped in a Boom Doom Cycle. It’s time to escape by taking a nuanced approach to risk and reward.

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