NEXT24: energising the future with AI as… plumbing?

By Adam Tinworth

We’re thinking too small and too pessimistically about AI. It’s our next level of digital infrastructure and the NEXT24 speakers gave us a glimpse of the creativity that could unleash.

Digital’s easy scale has proven to be ruinously expensive

By Adam Tinworth

The digital unicorns have been enjoying the lucrative advantages of worldwide scale — without paying the price. But there are others costs, that might be even more expensive…

Drones in use: the hospital sample shuttle

By Adam Tinworth

Forget motorcycle couriers: two hospitals in Switzerland are swapping samples via drone, with a little help from Swiss Post

When your car is a computer – what happens next?

By Adam Tinworth

The car is inexorably becoming a computer on wheels. What happens when it does?

Google targets Smart Cities infrastructure

By Adam Tinworth

Google has announce the creation of Sidewalk Labs - its first step into the world of seriously smart cities.

Apple: crippling competitors with infrastructure

By Adam Tinworth

Apple doensn't just out-innovate competitors - it blindsides them, and uses its cash to lock them out.

Tech conferences: a collective dream of the future

By Adam Tinworth

As the European tech scene gathers in Paris, it's worth remembering that tech conferences can be a greta way to dream the future into being

Startup thinking: building businesses fit for the new normal

By Adam Tinworth

Are we trying to manage 21st Century businesses with the management thinking of the 1800s? NEXT 14 speaker Lee Bryant thinks so - and he has solutions.

Mobile Industrial Tech: The NEXT startup frontier?

By Adam Tinworth

The last five years have been all about mobile consumer tech. Could the next five bring that energy to the infrastructure that supports our quality of life?

Thomas Kiessling: making the right choice to support innovation

By Adam Tinworth

Deutsche Telekom isn't content to provide network provision - it wants to be a platform provider that enables startup innovation. Thomas Kiessling explains why, and how open wins…

Big commutes, big trains, big data

By Adam Tinworth

One UK train operating company is taking tiny steps towards using the big data volumes generated by complaining commuters…