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It’s time for tech regulation

By Martin Recke

The tech industry enjoyed a quarter-century of regulation honeymoon. It's over now. The attention economy requires a new approach.
Workforce management: the key to unlocking pandemic productivity

By Adam Tinworth

The office has been dethroned as the central organising principle of work. Organising and connecting the workforce digitally is the new monarch of the efficient post-pandemic company.
Efosa Ojomo: Understanding Market-Creating Innovations and the Job to Be Done

In the final episode of What’s NEXT's first season, Efosa Ojomo explored how a framework for exploring innovation can help you make the right choices to grow your business.
NEXT19 Recap: embracing complexity and rethinking humanity

By Adam Tinworth

It was implicit in the theme of parallel worlds, but it was explicit on stage: we need to embrace complexity and reject simplistic thinking to navigate the societal storms ahead. Was this the most challenging NEXT to date?
David Mattin: addressing complexity with a new model of humanity

By Adam Tinworth

We are being overwhelmed by complexity - and it's fracturing our societies. We need to update our model of humanity if we're to have any chance of reversing this.
Brian Whipple: driving progress with purpose

By Adam Tinworth

50 years ago we put a man on the moon. Yet, in some critical areas, we haven't advanced in 20 years. Can we apply purpose to make the world better - and our businesses with it?
Festivalisation: make a conference a community that lasts

By Adam Tinworth

Festivalisation is more than just a buzzword, it's a process that brings parallel world together into a community. And it might be more important than ever in the digital world.
How to survive in the Post-Digital Era

By Adam Tinworth

What happens when digital becomes commonplace, and a new tech announcement floods us with ennui, not excitement? We're finding out, as we're firmly in the post-digital era now.
Parallelwelten

By Martin Recke

What if, somewhere in the universe, there existed a world identical to the one we know? What if there was not only one, but many Parallelwelten, i.e. parallel worlds?
Systems Thinking: our guard against unintended consequences

By Adam Tinworth

We live in a world of complex, inter-dependent systems, and any thinking that fails to include that runs the risk of summoning the law of unintended consequences.
Fragmentations

By Martin Recke

Digital increasingly defines reality, but our once unified, single, analogue reality is now fragmented into many different, competing realities.
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…
David Mattin: New technologies and the search for meaning

By Adam Tinworth

The last wave of tech failed because it didn’t account for humanity. If we remember our higher order needs, says David Mattin, we’ll build better tech in future.
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.
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.
Ten insiders’ tips for your stay in Hamburg

By Martin Recke

It's NEXT week, and this means a lot of people flocking to Hamburg, some of them for the first time ever. An anonymous insider from our team shares ten of their tips.
Regulation is messy, takes time, and has unintended consequences

By Martin Recke

We no longer live in a world where Google and Facebook are tiny upstarts that shouldn't be stifled by tough regulation. They can afford more regulation, and they probably should be regulated to reduce negative externalities.
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.
China and the power of a billion

By Martin Recke

Digital and automotive markets are going to merge, with digital going automotive and automotive getting increasingly digital. And China is well positioned to take advantage of this megatrend.
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.
What can you learn from a museum of German failure?

By Adam Tinworth

Why were Germans so fascinated with the Museum of Failure? Samuel West has some ideas - and they might change how you think about innovation.
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.

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