Search results for “human experience” Beyond digital childhood: a new, more nuanced, tech utopianism By Adam Tinworth George Dyson wrote that we're at the end of the digital's world's childhood. How do we make sure it grows up into a well-rounded adult? The Big Crunch of the digital universe By Martin Recke The digital world of today looks like a universe that is recollapsing into the black holes of Amazon, Facebook, and Google. From cosmology, we can only tell that this won’t end well. NEXT’s most popular 2018 posts: the future of work and products By Adam Tinworth Which of 2018's posts caught your eye on the NEXT blog? Product development and sustainable business were popular topics - but what are the surprises? Linear advertising models are a thing of the past By Martin Recke In 2008, Maurice Levy, then Publicis Groupe chief executive, said the business model for the advertising industry is outdated. He was right back then, but the advertising industry is still around more than a decade later, despite their business model being no less obsolete. A short walk through our first book By Martin Recke Here at NEXT, we are somehow obsessed with the near future, culminating in the question: What's next? We've published a book, printed in German and as an e-book in both English and German, to spread some insights worth spreading. Will Facebook give Nick Clegg the power it needs to reinvigorate its public image? By Adam Tinworth The easiest way for Facebook to avoid regulation and legislative intervention would be to become the sort of company that doesn’t need it. That’s just not going to happen with the current Facebook power structure. Zuckerberg rules as an autocrat, with Sandberg as his enforcer. NEXT18 Themes #2: Preparing our societies for transformational technology By Adam Tinworth The speakers on day two of NEXT18 dove deeper into the things about humanity that technology can't change - and thus challenged us to address the factors we can. Holley M. Murchison: the path to accurate and artful self-definition By Adam Tinworth How do you truly define yourself and what you do? Our on-stage host closed out NEXT18 with a workshop helping us do just that. Tobias Revell: Imagining Machines Better By Adam Tinworth Perhaps one of the reasons technology has gone wrong is that our dreams of its future have got so small. Does art offer a way out of our failure of technological imagination? Marc Mellone: a global study into mobility needs – and opportunities By Adam Tinworth The future of mobility is about much more than autonomous cars. A Fjord research project delved deep into the specific mobility needs of varying people worldwide. Eco Moliterno: Let digital fix the world, locally By Adam Tinworth Can local solutions fix global problems - Eco Moliterno thinks so, and he gave five disparate examples to the attendees of NEXT18. Andrew Keen: How to fix the future By Adam Tinworth Andrew Keen has a fix for digital's problems - and it starts 500 years ago. A liveblog of his talk at NEXT18. Ten insiders’ tips for your stay in Hamburg By Martin Recke It's NEXT week, and this means a lot of people flocking to Hamburg, some of them for the first time ever. An anonymous insider from our team shares ten of their tips. Meet the NEXT18 Designers: Studio C.A.R.E. By Juliane Hennig Rotterdam-based design studio Studio C.A.R.E. offers radical experiences in interior design — and are one of the designers behind NEXT18. We put them to the question… We need a Digital Fix, because we can’t work at machine speed By Adam Tinworth Computers enable real-time, instantaneous connection worldwide - and that's a huge boon. But the also operate at a relentless pace, that will crush us if we try to match it. After the smartphone? Ambient computing could be our next digital fix. By Adam Tinworth The smartphone isn’t going to die any time soon. What will die - and possibly sooner than you think - is the central role it plays in our digital life. And with it will die the idea that any device will play a central role in our digital existence. How will the end of smartphones look like? By Martin Recke The fourth cycle of personal computation will be dominated by strong platforms that can tie lots of very different devices together with software and services. The winner will be whoever provides the superior user experience. Can Innovation get us out of the current mess? By Martin Recke Do we need more innovation? Do we need less, or slower innovation? Or do we need other kinds of innovation? 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… Can We Design for Wellbeing? By Pamela Pavliscak Remember not so long ago, when tech was supposed to make our lives better? While that still may be true, it's no longer the whole story. Happiness by Design means designing for contentment By Adam Tinworth Designing for happiness is a terrible, terrible idea. And all the serious thinkers who have written about the idea know it. Augmented modernity may be a way off – but we need to start preparing now By Adam Tinworth A world where the digital and the physical intermingle for a seamless augmented reality is coming – and we need to start thinking about the moral and legal implications now. Modernity and Reality are the Next Frontier By Martin Recke We already almost lost the difference between online and offline, or between digital and analogue. Reality itself could be next. In comparison, fake news is just a minor issue. prev 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 next