Search results for “digital sucks” Your voice assistant can be hacked – silently By Adam Tinworth You phone can be hacked via ultrasonics - if you have Siri turned on. Boy, digital sucks, doesn’t it? The road to decarbonised energy is paved with… stories? By Adam Tinworth Too much of the climate change discussion is taken up with doom and gloom. We need to start telling more inspiring stories of our green energy future. Reclaim the future by embracing complexity: the core message of NEXT19 By Adam Tinworth "We can fix this! Simple!" is the most dangerous lie we can tell ourselves. In an era of increasing technological and environmental risk, we'll only solve our problems by embracing complexity. This was one of the core messages of #NEXT19 Taking the time to build mindful tech By Adam Tinworth We've been exploited, both by tech companies and by hostile political actors. And through most of it, we were unaware of what was happening. We no longer have that excuse. It's time for the age of mindful tech. We let tech make us small. Elon Musk is helping us dream big again. By Adam Tinworth Once the talk of SXSW was new apps and social networks. Now, it's Elon Musk and rockets. The wheel of tech is turning towards the big tech again, and that's exciting… Human experience isn’t a discipline: it’s a mindset By Adam Tinworth Human experience is in danger of become another buzzword, another piece of jargon. But it's not: it's a critical mindset for building better businesses and products. Algorithmic exploitation: traumatic videos aimed at kids are being hidden on YouTube By Adam Tinworth YouTube Kids is safe for your children, right? Well, maybe not. As former NEXT speaker James Bridle discovered - there's a world of exploration out there, and algorithms are to blame. NEXT17 in Tweets #2: Awesome AI, Virtuous Voice and Brilliant Blockchain By Adam Tinworth As NEXT17's Day One continue, we explored the ubiquity of AI, the role of voice and the potential of blockchain. Here's how attendees reacted… Stéphanie Mitrano: 5 takeaways from NEXT17 By Adam Tinworth French innovation consultant Stéphanie Mitrano has blogged about the most important themes of NEXT17 for her. Bruce Sterling – Live from 2027 Bruce Sterling about his predictions on the European tech business ten years from now. Short Interview Tricia Wang | nextMedia.Studio NEXT speaker Tricia Wang on ‘Digital sucks’. Powered by NEXT Premium Partner nextMedia.Hamburg. Tricia Wang: Why corporate “innovation” doesn’t work — and how to fix it. By Adam Tinworth Companies aren’t bad at innovation; they’re bad at making good decisions about that innovation. Tricia Wang explains how to make better decisions. David Mattin: We need to talk about optimism By Adam Tinworth David Mattin opened up NEXT 17 with an attack on the corporate optimism of Silicon Valley and a pleas to replace it with nuanced optimism. Hamburg: 15 essential places to visit By Adam Tinworth Got some time to spare during your visit to NEXT17? Desperate for a great coffee, and insect tasty ice cream or even a little sight seeing? Here are the NEXT team’s recommendations. We need to talk about optimism. By David Mattin It’s time to reclaim the word from fake techno-utopians – and understand that new technologies can make things worse as well as better. Go on. Do that Facebook quiz. It’s probably harmless, right? By Adam Tinworth Memes and quizzes on Facebook are just harmless fun, surely? There's no way machine learning could be learning all sorts of things about you from them — is there? The lesson of the Museum of Failure is that innovation means risk By Adam Tinworth We should explore failure at least as much as we celebrate success. Why? Because it teaches us more. Welcome back Bruce Sterling. We’re ready for some tough love. By Adam Tinworth Bruce Sterling is back at NEXT - and we're ready for both his optimism and his deep insights into the problems with digital. Help us make it better, Bruce. How the Big Tech oligarchy came to power By Martin Recke It took decades for Big Tech to rise and become the oligarchy it is today. Is it too late to prevent it from destroying democracy? Democracy and its demands By Martin Recke For democracy to work, political parties must address the problems of their voters. Companies have a growing responsibility here. The next iteration of the web By Martin Recke It seems clear that we are facing a new iteration of the web, but what exactly the next web will look like is still an open question. Events will return, but differently By Martin Recke The event business will change profoundly after the pandemic, when events return from their hiatus. But not all events will survive. Migration is back on the agenda By Martin Recke Are we prepared for the age of mass migration? No, we aren't, says Parag Khanna, who just wrote a book about the subject. prev 1 2 3 next
