Trends Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close 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. Long-term thinking is our best weapon against the permacrisis By Adam Tinworth In the grip of a permacrisis, it’s easy to be seduced by short-term thinking. We need to resist its lure, and fix our eyes again on the long-term horizon. Yes, here is yet another article on AI By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke Sure, you don’t need to read yet another article on AI. But this one might just surprise you… Digital’s gift: a chance to rethink our physical lives By Adam Tinworth A mix of digital, pandemic and energy trends are forcing a rethink of our urban infrastructure. Can we remake the physical in the face of the climate crisis? The Five Horsemen of the Permacrisis By Adam Tinworth Stability is a distant dream, as the 2020s turn into a decade of permacrisis. Here are the biggest factors driving it. SXSW 2023 – The trends that matter By Christian Barth Social commerce. Web3. Metaverse. Generative Al. Ketchup Moment. And the lines are back. Can digital wallets solve the identity crisis? By Martin Recke It’s not primarily a question of technology, but of mass adoption. The current state of digital wallets is a major design problem. Generative AI: humanity’s creative assistant is here By Adam Tinworth Image and text versions of generative AI are now available to most people. How will this technology impact the way we create art and write? We need to completely reimagine work By Martin Recke The pressure to act is rising. Now is the time to reimagine the work and office world, and create a plan that works for all. Brands as communities: the path to navigating the permacrisis By Adam Tinworth Building communities around your brands isn’t just public service — it’s tapping into a fundamental human need to sustain your business. Loretta Tioiela: How synthetic biology can transform the world By Adam Tinworth The next wave of technology might not be digital: synthetic biology offers the potential to transform how we live. The two heralds of the deep tech winter By Adam Tinworth Declining tech innovation and the threat of China invading Taiwan could drive the digital industry into a deep, deep winter. prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next
