Trends

Digital overload

By Martin Recke

People no longer welcome every new technology with open arms. Their sense of digital overload has consequences for businesses.
Escaping the Meh-diocracy trap

By Adam Tinworth

The tech and movie innovation of the 2010s seems to have lapsed into a dull morass of “me too” products. A downturn is the perfect time to re-ignite creativity.
The next interface

By Martin Recke

Generative AI has triggered the great interface shift, changing the way we interact with digital systems. The implications for brands are huge.
Love and money: marketing through a downturn

By Adam Tinworth

The relationship between brands a consumer has been pitched as one of care and passion. But when an economic downturn bites, consumers find themselves asking “where’s the love?”
David Mattin: the trends that will define our future

By Adam Tinworth

Trends are tricky things: they rarely turn out how you expect. But David Mattin makes them work for businesses by focusing on the human tab the heart of them. Here's how.
Augmented realities for lizard brains

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT23 gave us a roadmap to a blended physical and digital world but warned that our brains might not be ready for these new realities.
Cornucopia of the Senses: Future Food Design

Sam takes us on a culinary vision quest into the wonder of your senses and the future of food.
Sam Bompas: seeing the future in food

By Adam Tinworth

We all need to eat — but how we service that need, and make it fun, can tell us a lot about the future, suggests Sam Bompas.
Every Thing We Touch

Every Thing We Touch is Paula Zuccotti’s voyage to making sense of today’s things.
Bits and Atoms: The Unified Digital-Physical Field

Prepare yourself for an exciting tech-driven future where artificial intelligence emerges as a powerful force in the energy sector, seamlessly integrating with the physical world.
David Mattin: the merger of the physical and digital will fuel innovation for decades

By Adam Tinworth

A confluence of technologies is blurring the line between the physical and the digital, between the real and the representational. David Mattin introduces the next epoch of humanity…
Marketing cuts accelerate the shift to digital

By Martin Recke

Cuts in marketing spending are disproportionately affecting traditional channels, accelerating the shift to digital.
The Urban Reboot is underway

By Adam Tinworth

We changed how we shop, how we work, how we commute — and we're changing how we power our world. It's time to rethink our cities.
The optimisation seduction: keeping data in its place

By Adam Tinworth

The limits of optimisation are a lesson we need to keep learning. Data seduces us into thinking of people as machines — but that's a huge management error.
In a digital world, experience design is the key advantage

By Adam Tinworth

The pandemic made us hungry for physical experiences, but also fussy about them. Innovative experience design is the way our of this dilemma.
The digital adds to the physical, not replaces it

By Adam Tinworth

The Metaverse has hit the trough of disillusionment with unusual speed. Perhaps technologists need a more sophisticated understanding of physical/digital interplay.
Becoming cyborg

By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke

Or what if we told you that you are one already?
Apple didn’t launch a headset: it released a spatial computing platform

By Adam Tinworth

Apple Vision Pro, the first headset from the company, isn’t a Metaverse device. It’s Apple’s first true spatial computing product.
Generative AI and the mystery of consciousness

By Adam Tinworth

The rapid advances in AI and large language models (LLMs) are raising questions about sentience and consciousness we can’t yet answer.
NEXT23 theme: Let’s get physical

By Martin Recke

The digital revolution is entering a new phase. It will lead to a fusion of digital and physical, and a rewrite of how the world works.
Nick Law: embracing a new age of digital creativity

By Adam Tinworth

Creativity is a core skill to navigate digital change — and yet is too often misunderstood. As Nick Law explains, creativity is deeply rooted in a medium, and great leaders understand that.
Will AI eat software?

By Martin Recke

Software used to be expensive, but thanks to AI, it may soon be cheap. Will software developers lose their jobs?
What we can see now is the first percent of what is coming

By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke

An interview with Merantix Founder and AI Expert Adrian Locher.

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