Tag: digital fix

Apple & Google: applying a digital fix for mobile addiction

By Adam Tinworth

Last night, Apple gave Facebook the finger, live on stage. Well, OK, not literally.
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.
Decentralisation can fix digital – if we learn how to sell it

By Adam Tinworth

Decentralisation of technology is central to the success of digital. The problem is that no-one cares. How do we make them care?
Digital needs to grow up: and that means learning ethics

By Adam Tinworth

Right now, the digital world is behaving like a spoilt toddler, doing what it wants without thought of consequences. It's up to us to teach the digital world how to build new tools that are both ethical and responsible.
Do we want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?

By Martin Recke

For quite a while, we took for granted that we, of course, are part of the solution just by being digital, since digital was perceived to be good in itself, and hence digitisation equals progress. In 2018, it should be obvious that this is no longer the case.
Finding a digital fix for Facebook

By Adam Tinworth

If anything is in need of a digital fix right now, it's Facebook. Can the social network be remade in a more privacy-centric form? Or is the fix actually a replacement?
Autonomous cars can fix road deaths – if we don’t rush them onto the roads too fast

By Adam Tinworth

In recent weeks, autonomous cars have been responsible for the deaths of a pedestrian and a driver. Are we moving too fast with this innovation?
To fix digital, learn from today’s failure of innovation — and do it better

By Adam Tinworth

There's a real temptation to turn our backs on technology when things go wrong. That would be a mistake. Innovations cannot be uninvented - so we need to learn from them and move forwards.
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…
On Humans and Machines

By Martin Recke

Technology is interwoven with every aspect of our lives, but the promises of digital transformation – we are not there yet. We are not even close…
Amongst SXSW 2018’s parties, there’s serious work to be done

By Adam Tinworth

Today, one of the world’s longest-running festivals of technology and digital culture kicks off – SXSW Interactive…
Hello, Goodbye: making smart decisions about the digital tools we let into our lives

By Adam Tinworth

Digital communities and digital companies are supported by those who chose to use them. If we don't like the digital world we've built, we need to start exercising our consumer choices in smarter ways.