Tag: digital fix

Fighting for the future in the media of the past

By Adam Tinworth

It seems counter-intuitive to seek answers to the problems of the future in the media of the last millennium. But sometimes a good, challenging book is exactly the antidote to the social media age we need.
The solution to phone obsession is new ideas, not old ones

By Adam Tinworth

A new company under the venerable Palm name is trying to reduce phone addiction - by giving people two phones. Is the way forwards to go backwards?
What do we do about Facebook Portal’s privacy problem?

By Adam Tinworth

The delightful thing about NEXT18 was disappearing into a huddle of people genuinely trying to make a difference…
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.
NEXT18 Themes #1: Rediscovering the human in the digital

By Adam Tinworth

Perhaps it seems obvious, but the clear thread running through NEXT18 was that the digital fix we really needs is a digital industry that serves all humanity, not a handful of billionaires in Silicon Valley. The fightback starts here…
We need to grow up

By Martin Recke

Digital is now woven into all aspects of our live, hence the interconnectedness of things. We can no longer afford to play with our digital tools in a sandbox, waiting for mommy to call us for dinner.
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?
Pamela Pavliscak: A future with feeling

By Adam Tinworth

Beyond AI lies artificial emotions — but can we teach machines about emotions, if we don't really understand them ourselves. Pamela Pavliscak shows NEXT18 the way forwards.
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.
Life Offscreen – three NEXT thinkers lay out the path forwards

By Adam Tinworth

There’s something utterly delicious to me about a print magazine about digital (that’s why I’m so delighted we’re doing a book). It’s a great way of taking time away from screens while still connecting with the the industry we love - and more importantly, the people within it.
The Digital Fixers that will stop us repeating tech’s mistakes

By Adam Tinworth

The obvious answers and fixes are not working. We need to think more deeply about building a positive, sustainable digital future than today’s wave of bandaids on a deep wound.
Quantum Computing: can we plan to have the gain without the pain?

By Adam Tinworth

If we’re serious - really serious - about fixing digital, we need to do more than just fix the mistakes of the past. We need to make sure we don’t repeat those mistakes into the future.
Calm Technology knows it is useful – but also knows its place

By Adam Tinworth

Our phones are like noisy, attention-seeking children, always demanding that we look at them. Yet, their younger siblings, smart speakers are quiet and reactive. Could we be finally learning from our mistakes?
How to get human time back from technology

By Amber Case

The addictive seductions of technology are limiting our creativity and potential, instead of enhancing it. Author Amber Case suggests how we can fix this by reclaiming human time, and keeping our phones in their place.
The Purpose Economy: the step beyond the digital economy

By Adam Tinworth

Some ideas have to wait. Their moment of inception does not coincide well with the moment of potential adoption by the public. The purpose economy certainly feels like that.
Meet the NEXT18 Designers: Bräutigam & Rotermund

By Juliane Hennig

Good design is focused and it makes things look effortless and logical. Good communication design puts the message first and communicates it in a memorable way.
To survive the next 10 years, get serious about digital risk management

By Adam Tinworth

The last wave of digital businesses are in big trouble right now, because they failed to plan for the risks of their technology. We can't afford to be that apathetic - or ignorant - any longer.
eSports is huge – and getting bigger. We should be taking it much more seriously.

By Adam Tinworth

Games are for kids, right? Wrong - esports is a fast-growing, multi-billion industry, with a huge cultural impact. And we're not taking it seriously enough - yet.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web, is working on its digital fix.

By Adam Tinworth

Even the inventor of the web knows it needs fixing - and he's working on that right now.
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.
We need an ongoing digital fix

By Adam Tinworth

In the midst of the digital backlash, it's important to remember that tech itself is neutral - it's what we do with it that counts.
The end of tech is here, because tech is in everything

By Adam Tinworth

Forget your digital detoxes and back-to-nature retreats. Tech is everywhere, and in everything. It's interwoven into the very fabric of our culture. And we'll only truly get control of it when we accept that as stop seeing tech as something "other".