Tag: design fiction

The workplace of 2025: a Microsoft productivity vision

By Adam Tinworth

Can wearables, touch interfaces and pervasive computing change the world of work? Microsoft is exploring the future of productivity.
Tech conferences: a collective dream of the future

By Adam Tinworth

As the European tech scene gathers in Paris, it's worth remembering that tech conferences can be a greta way to dream the future into being
Google I/O: It’s all just smart glass

By Adam Tinworth

Google's major keynote of the year was long, rambling and technical - but it still painted a picture of a company with a unified vision for the future.
Bruce Sterling on Fantasy prototypes and real disruption

In the closing keynote of NEXT Berlin 2013, acclaimed science-fiction author and journalist Bruce Sterling tackled a variety of topics like design fiction, start-up culture, and the mass adoption of disruptive technology. He sees science fiction as a form of design - design fiction that is part of the start-up world.
Blogging Bruce Sterling: the web reacts to his NEXT keynote

By Adam Tinworth

Bruce Sterling's closing keynote was the most challenging of the conference. As the video has spread, people have been quick to pick up on his ideas - and his big warning.