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The magic of AI in healthcare

By Martin Recke

AI won’t replace human healthcare professionals, but it is well-equipped to augment their work, improving efficiency and accuracy.
The work crisis

By Martin Recke

Work is a huge part of our lives and societies, but it is in a deep, fundamental crisis. The reasons are manifold and erode the dignity of work. It’s time to act.
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.
The philosophy of tech

By Martin Recke

Some of the burning questions about tech, AI or robotics are actually questions of philosophy. What is our true goal here?
AI as new media

By Martin Recke

Generative AI will create new media forms where artists and creative technologists are both at the forefront and at risk of being put out of business.
A new interface paradigm

By Martin Recke

Computing is expanding in two dimensions. Will conversational AI lead to a new interface paradigm? And what does that mean?
The digital-physical merger

By Martin Recke

The next big thing isn’t AI itself, but the interplay of intelligence, data, networks/computing and energy.
Capability overhang, or the future of AI

By Martin Recke

The future of AI depends on what we imagine today. While we explore our new capabilities, imagination is the bottleneck.
AI Art: using generative art to enhance the human experience

By Adam Tinworth

Artists like REEPS100 are paving the way for using AI to enhance human life, not replace human workers.
The office of the future won’t arrive anytime soon

By Martin Recke

We still don’t know what the office of the future will look like. But thanks to AI and the permacrisis, it will be leaner than before.
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.
AI and the future of work

By Martin Recke

AI is going to change how we work. It will automate white-collar work. And we’ll see AI-first start-ups creating new markets.
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.
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…
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?
The next phase of the digital revolution

By Martin Recke

With massive shifts in power and control, the digital revolution is entering a new phase. The Accenture Life Trends 2023 report sums it up.
What is intelligence? And can we recreate it?

By Adam Tinworth

Can we really have artificial intelligence when we don’t really understand what intelligence is in the first place? We need to reconceptualise intelligence before we can make the most of AI.
James Bridle: rethinking artificial intelligence on natural lines

By Adam Tinworth

Artist and writer James Bridle argues that by sticking to human models of intelligence, we're limiting AI's potential.
My summertime reading book list

By Matthias Schrader

Matthias Schrader stacked up his personal list of thought-leading book picks for this summer.
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.
John Watton: using AI to humanise customer experience

By Adam Tinworth

Customer experience is becoming the critical differenciator for business. Counter-intuitively, AI could be the route to humanise the experience at scale.
Virginia Dignum: what ethical AI can do for us

By Adam Tinworth

Artificial intelligence is no longer a computer science problem alone. We need ethics expertise, legal expertise and more… A 30 year veteran of the field puts it in context for us.