Tag: futurology

Searching for the Exit Routes

By David Mattin

Will technology save us or doom us? AI is the latest to be hailed as both saviour and destroyer. We need new ways of discussing the future.
Kübra Gümüşay: perspectives on utopias

By Adam Tinworth

Can we create new, more useful visions of the future by opening ourselves to new perspectives? Kübra Gümüşay thinks so — and explains how we can do it.
All Life is Here

By David Mattin

Future thinker David Mattin shares his notes towards a revolution in the foresight industry.
Forget Big Bang innovation; it’s all built on islands of invention

By Adam Tinworth

We’re looking for interesting innovation in the wrong places. Single, big, transformative innovations are so rare as to be worth ignoring. The interesting stuff happens at smaller scales.
Fighting for the future in the media of the past

By Adam Tinworth

It seems counter-intuitive to seek answers to the problems of the future in the media of the last millennium. But sometimes a good, challenging book is exactly the antidote to the social media age we need.
Cutting through the tech hype, for better business decisions

By Adam Tinworth

There's a lot of, um, hype in the tech world. How can you spot a good bet from the next product to fail dramatically?
Future Fictions: a postcard from 2030

By Adam Tinworth

What will life be like in 2030? One Danish MP has a challenging set of predictions for us.
NEXT16: Tamara Gaffney – Getting ahead of the future with data

By Adam Tinworth

Tamara reads the future in today's data. And her son reads it in his own habits. They both share their insights.
Technology versus Humanity

By Adam Tinworth

As we intergrate technology with our bodies are we building a better future – or a complex dystopia?
NEXT16 Speakers in their own words: Nathalie Nahai

By Adam Tinworth

Web psychologist Nathalie Nahai is bringing scientific insight into the impact of new technology on our brains. Here's a simple of the insights you'll get at NEXT16.
Future Fictions: parenting in 2025

By Adam Tinworth

What impact will digital technologies have on the children of 2025? This video has some ideas…
Technology isn’t the future, it’s the culture

By Adam Tinworth

Technology is slowly ceasing to be something in its own right, as it becomes the very heart of our culture.