Tag: digital sucks

Digital Fix – Fix Digital

By Martin Recke

Our overblown digital egos have turned tech into a huge mess. Digital sucks, yet we are still desperate to get our daily digital fix. Now, let’s fix digital!
RIP John Perry Barlow, warrior for digital freedoms

By Adam Tinworth

John Perry Barlow, who died yesterday, was one of the great early visionaries about the potential of digital: and its terrible risks.
An Immersive Experience that doesn’t suck

By Martin Recke

Let's shift perspective to the user’s point of view and talk about immersive experience instead of vr, ar, or mixed reality.
Designing a world we want to live in

By Martin Recke

Product design has undergone several iterations over the past few decades. It’s time to move on and take the step to humanity-centred design.
Algorithmic exploitation: traumatic videos aimed at kids are being hidden on YouTube

By Adam Tinworth

YouTube Kids is safe for your children, right? Well, maybe not. As former NEXT speaker James Bridle discovered - there's a world of exploration out there, and algorithms are to blame.
NEXT17 Summary #1: Where digital went wrong

By Adam Tinworth

For two days in September, the digital world met in Hamburg and a single question was on our lips: where did we go wrong? Here are the answers we found…
Digital Sucks. So, let’s choose to make better decisions

By Adam Tinworth

The best part of 20 years ago a very smart woman told me something I strongly disagreed with at the time: love, she said, isn’t a feeling. It’s a decision. In my 20-something’s surge of passion and romance, I denied it all. There was no way love was anything as…
Your voice assistant can be hacked – silently

By Adam Tinworth

You phone can be hacked via ultrasonics - if you have Siri turned on. Boy, digital sucks, doesn’t it?
Tricia Wang: in her own words

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT17 speaker Tricia Wang is interested in how we shape our digital tools – and how they shape us. Here’s the way she thinks…
Making sure AI boosts jobs, not destroys them

By Adam Tinworth

Can we make sure AI boosts the job market, rather than destroying it? An article argue we can…
We need to talk about optimism.

By David Mattin

It’s time to reclaim the word from fake techno-utopians – and understand that new technologies can make things worse as well as better.
Digital Sucks – because it lets us be less human

By Adam Tinworth

Intentionally or not, the drive to reduce life friction digitally has made us more social isolated. Are we too far down that path, or can we turn back?
Screen-less Sundays don’t have to mean tech-free Sundays

By Adam Tinworth

Tony Fadell wants us to disconnect from our screens - but not our tech. How does that work?
What men can do to beat sexism in digital

By Adam Tinworth

We all know that the digital world has a sexism – and diversity – problem. But how do we fix it?
Digital sucks – because we pay too much attention to user desires

By Adam Tinworth

Are we turning our users into narcissistic toddlers by catering to their every whim?
Endless streams of information leads to digital hoarding

By Adam Tinworth

Does too much information lead to us choosing the easy option?
Browser tabs: the first wave of the new digital clutter

By Adam Tinworth

While digital is slowly freeing us from physical clutter, digital clutter is rising to replace it.
Digital Sucks. But, right now, AIs are helping us making it better

By Adam Tinworth

In films, AIs are homicidal machines come to kill us. In reality, they're tireless assistants solving the problems we don't have time for…
Digital sucks, because it doesn’t care for our bodies

By Adam Tinworth

Tech VC Om Malik is giving up the best phone he has ever owned, because his body can't cope with it.
Uber’s crisis: digital growing pains laid bare

By Adam Tinworth

Uber has had a rough month, losing its CEO and a board member. But these growing pains might be a necessary part of making a disruptive startup into a sustainable business.
The lesson of the Museum of Failure is that innovation means risk

By Adam Tinworth

We should explore failure at least as much as we celebrate success. Why? Because it teaches us more.
Welcome back Bruce Sterling. We’re ready for some tough love.

By Adam Tinworth

Bruce Sterling is back at NEXT - and we're ready for both his optimism and his deep insights into the problems with digital. Help us make it better, Bruce.
Draining the digital swamp

By Adam Tinworth

When digital pioneers start deleting accounts and stepping back from Silicon Valley - you know something is up.