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Thomas Madsen-Mygdal: bootstrapping a new digital culture with the Copenhagen Catalog

By Adam Tinworth

A peculiarly California version of libertarianism has come to define the internet. It's time for a new, European vision to replace it. And the Copenhagen Catalog is a first step towards that.
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.
Ayesha Khanna: Business reimagined with AI

By Adam Tinworth

AI can and will change the way we live and work - and we should prepare for that now. A liveblog of Ayesha Khanna at NEXT18.
Marco Börries: Standing up against Amazon

By Adam Tinworth

Amazon has claimed the majority of the 20% of commerce that has gone online. Can we stop them getting the 80% - mainly local - that has yet to do so? A NEXT18 liveblog.
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.
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.
Computer Vision is the next big test of digital regulation

By Adam Tinworth

Computer Vision may be the least talked about tech in common use today. But one aspect of it could have huge consequences - and we need to talk about face recognition now.
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.
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.
Digital health can make us live longer – but at what price?

By Adam Tinworth

Health data is the next big data set about ourselves companies are eager to get their hands on. And wearables make that easy. But have we really thought this through?
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.
The battle for attention is killing people. Are you not entertained?

By Adam Tinworth

Like the gladiators of old, YouTubers are dying while battling to win our attention. Who should take responsibility for this?
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.
Taking the time to build mindful tech

By Adam Tinworth

We've been exploited, both by tech companies and by hostile political actors. And through most of it, we were unaware of what was happening. We no longer have that excuse. It's time for the age of mindful tech.

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