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…

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.

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.

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.

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?

Branded Customer Experience: designing CX for impact

By Isabelle Ette, Jakob Krämer

Branded customer experience can reshape perceptions and foster connections with even today’s wary and sceptical consumers. Here’s how.

Trailblazing Brand Strategy in the Age of GenAI

By Roman Kugler, Petra Seipp

There’s plenty of theory about how AI could enhance brand strategy - but too little empirical evidence. A new report fixes that and provides practical guidelines.

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 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.

CES 2025: less automotive, more AI

By Roland Mayr

AI was clearly the dominant theme at CES 2025. Products become smarter, and humanoid robots are a thing now.

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.

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.

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.