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Digital education isn’t just for children, it’s for life

By Adam Tinworth

In a world already changing, education could well be our most powerful tool to take control of that change, and shape it in a way that is beneficial to all of humanity.
The Key to Video Marketing Isn’t Sizzle, it’s Psychology

By Tatjana Biallas

How do you reach the huge — and growing — number of online video viewers, without annoying them? It's all a matter of timing…
Redesigning Education

By Martin Recke

We've talked a lot about user-centric design and its sibling, human-centred design. It's time to apply what we've learned and redesign our education system.
Planes, Drones and Autonomous Automobiles

By Adam Tinworth

Drone-carried bags, autonomous taxis to the airport along with VR in-flight entertainment. These are fever dreams of the near-future from a long-haul departure lounge…
Happiness by Design means designing for contentment

By Adam Tinworth

Designing for happiness is a terrible, terrible idea. And all the serious thinkers who have written about the idea know it.
Augmented modernity may be a way off – but we need to start preparing now

By Adam Tinworth

A world where the digital and the physical intermingle for a seamless augmented reality is coming – and we need to start thinking about the moral and legal implications now.
5 Key Trends for 2018 that could reshape your business

By David Mattin

Guest author Dave Mattin shared five insights into 2018 that could make a massive difference to your business - if you can act on them.
2018: The Year of Tech Consequences

By Adam Tinworth

The era of idealistic tech dreaming is over. In 2018 it will clash with the hard reality of legislation and politics. Will we all lose?
Human experience isn’t a discipline: it’s a mindset

By Adam Tinworth

Human experience is in danger of become another buzzword, another piece of jargon. But it's not: it's a critical mindset for building better businesses and products.
We need to create a Digital Renaissance

By Adam Tinworth

Human culture did not start in the mid-2000s. We have untold generations of art, science, politics and philosophy we should be making available. And we’re not.
Can the humanities put the humanity into digital humanism?

By Adam Tinworth

Far from enhancing our public intellectual debate, the internet is increasingly limiting it. Are we missing something from the discussion around digital?
Can Germany crack the problem of regulating Facebook?

By Adam Tinworth

Around the world, attention is turning to cracking down on the power of Facebook. But can gErman lead the way, without turning it into a tool of oppression?
Digital sucks – but an out-of-control tech backlash is worse

By Adam Tinworth

Much of the current backlash against the tech giants is deserved: but is it going too far? Are we blaming them for our own weaknesses?
NEXT17 Summary #2: How to make digital better

By Adam Tinworth

So, digital sucks. How do we make it better? By pushing ourselves outside of our cosy cultural comfort zone, and learning from the edge of our societies…
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…
NEXT17 in Tweets #2: Awesome AI, Virtuous Voice and Brilliant Blockchain

By Adam Tinworth

As NEXT17's Day One continue, we explored the ubiquity of AI, the role of voice and the potential of blockchain. Here's how attendees reacted…
Stéphanie Mitrano: 5 takeaways from NEXT17

By Adam Tinworth

French innovation consultant Stéphanie Mitrano has blogged about the most important themes of NEXT17 for her.
NEXT17 in Tweets #1: Music, Optimism and Pretzels…

By Adam Tinworth

This is the first in a series of posts, telling the story of NEXT17 through attendees’ tweets. Keep…
Sometimes Walled Gardens Make the Web Suck; Let the Open Web Thrive

By Jon Westnedge

We're all caught in an endless torrent of content. Can we find a way of bring people back to the open web to do that? NEXT17 Sponsor Taboola thinks so.
Sebastian Deterding: Designing for the Good Life

By Adam Tinworth

We've built fantastic tools for productivity and work - and yet, we're more stressed and tired than ever. Could we be fetishising productivity, and do we need to design for something higher?
How China is Changing Consumer Behaviour Worldwide

By Adam Tinworth

China's real story isn't – yet – being told. China is not just a huge market - it's a huge engine of innovation that's coming our way.
Samuel West: learning from innovation failure

By Adam Tinworth

We fail at failure. Failure is where most innovation happens, and we miss it because we are afraid to admit to failure, and afraid to learn from it. Samuel West celebrates failure.

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