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2024’s most energising insights from our digital futures

By Adam Tinworth

We published dozens of insights into future trends in 2024. Which ones caught your imagination? It’s all about AI, politics, and the merger of physical and digital…
NEXT24: Decentralise power structures to give society new energy

By Adam Tinworth

The internet is a decentralising technology we’ve used to centralise digital power. Can we unleash its full potential and reshape our society through decentralisation?
Embracing Uncertainty: Leadership, Creativity, and Energy at NEXT24’s Finale

Explore how leaders can navigate uncertainty and transform it into creative energy for management, blending business insights with the artistry of dance to demonstrate the importance of adaptability, trust, and flexibility in leadership.
Snap Back to Reality: Timmy Ghiurãu on XR’s Power to Transform the Automotive World

Explore how Extended Reality (XR) is reshaping the automotive industry, from design and engineering to safety, sustainability, and everyday operations.
Energy Buddhism: Arash Aazami on Creating a Connected Future

In this thought-provoking talk, Arash Aazami delves into the transformative potential of Energy Buddhism, calling for a shift in mindset to address energy consumption, global inequality, and the urgent need for a sustainable, renewable energy future through innovative thinking and reimagined global systems.
Exploring Brain-Computer Interfaces: Maryam Alimardani at NEXT24

Explore the transformative potential of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), highlighting how AI is enabling thought-controlled devices to enhance mobility, revolutionise education, gaming, and sports, while addressing ethical challenges and individual differences.
The Future of Intelligence: Andy Kitchen on Embodied AI

Explore the groundbreaking concept of Embodied AI, where neural tissue grown on electrodes learns and adapts like living organisms, offering transformative potential for personalised medicine, drug discovery, and a deeper understanding of cognition.
Reflections on Inclusive AI: Payal Arora at NEXT24

Explore the transformative potential of inclusive AI in the Global South, highlighting initiatives like IndiaStack that empower local entrepreneurs and drive digital inclusion for a more optimistic and innovative future.
Democracy is Dead. Long Live Democracy! Jon Alexander on the Citizen Age

Discover how shifting from the consumer mindset to a participatory citizen narrative can restore trust, foster cooperation, and shape a resilient, inclusive future.
Exploring Physical AI with Dr Ivan Poupyrev

Explore Dr Ivan Poupyrev's visionary concept of Physical AI, unveiled at NEXT24, where AI harnesses real-world sensor data to revolutionise industries and transform our interaction with the physical world.
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.
How to move through uncertainty

By Adam Tinworth

The final session of NEXT24 on the main stage helped us process what we’ve learned — and put new energy in our management style.
The rise of information networks

By Martin Recke

A recap of NEXT24 through the lens of networks and their rise, from computers to the brain, from democracy to energy.
Exploring the frontier of new interfaces

By Adam Tinworth

Where is AI going next? How far and fast with biocomputing develop? And what will the next wave of interfaces look like? A panel discussion from NEXT24.
Personal Energy: the human opportunity in the energy transition

By Adam Tinworth

What is the internet of energy? And why is it inevitable? A fireside chat from NEXT24 about the future of the energy transition.
Reimagining Creativity: How AI challenges and inspires creative minds

By Adam Tinworth

Is AI the doom of human creativity, or the spur for a whole new wave of art? A panel discussion at NEXT24 explores the potential.
Timmy Ghiurãu: new technology, new energy, new futures

By Adam Tinworth

How do you incorparate emerging technlogy into your business? By rethinking the very narratives of the job your products are doing, says Volvo’s Timmy Ghiurãu.
Jon Alexander: Democracy is dead, long live Democracy!

By Adam Tinworth

It’s time for a cultural shift. The consumer age needs to give way to the citizen age — or something worse will take its place.
Andy Kitchen: Embodied AI, the one body problem

By Adam Tinworth

Forget digital AI. Here comes the minibrain: neural tissue grown on electrodes, that’s created embodied AI.
Maryam Alimardani: the next frontier of human cognition

By Adam Tinworth

Bridging the brain and the computer is the next step in interface design — and AI is helping make it happen.
Arash Aazami: Energy Buddhism, when everything becomes connected

By Adam Tinworth

Our fossil fuel age is a historical blip. We’re heading for Renewables 2.0, and we need a new mindset to make the change.
Payal Arora: Positive provocations on designing inclusive AI

By Adam Tinworth

The Global South is young, excited and innovative. The West is gloomy, but rich and free. We need to work together to build a better future, says Payal Arora.
Dr Ivan Poupyrev: The Era of Physical AI

By Adam Tinworth

Today’s AI is trained on the internet, and only understands the digital. When AI understands the physical, everything changes.