Tag: Society Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close 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. How will distributed autonomous organisations reshape our culture? By Adam Tinworth Culture is just the operating system of our societies. If you change how we organise using DAOs, you will inevitably change our culture. The right things to do By Martin Recke Doing the right things implies that we know what the right things are. Overwhelming complexity makes this a challenge. Global tribalism: can we adapt to it? By Adam Tinworth Tribalism is fundamental to humanity - we always gather in communities. But the internet has allowed us to bothe connect globally, while isolating ourselves locally. Therein lies the danger. We’re trapped in a toxic cycle of fragmentation and centralisation By Adam Tinworth Fragmentation is getting a really bad press, right now. There are some good reasons for that. Forget augmented reality — we’re already living in an augmented society. By Adam Tinworth As the internet relentlessly connects us, people grow more lonely. Maybe some of the problems aren't digital at all… NEXT18 Themes #2: Preparing our societies for transformational technology By Adam Tinworth The speakers on day two of NEXT18 dove deeper into the things about humanity that technology can't change - and thus challenged us to address the factors we can. Jamie Bartlett: The outsiders changing the world By Adam Tinworth Radicals and insurgents are often laughted at or ignored. But their narratives can be compelling - and change the way poltics operates. The real impact of self-driving cars: an end to human drivers By Adam Tinworth Will self-driving cars see the final end of human drivers? Here's a compelling argument that they will. Revenge, selfies and neoreactionaries: what the internet is doing to our society By Adam Tinworth The internet is profoundly shifting our sense of self - for good and ill. Can we promote the good and resist the bad? Social Media Week: The Integration Dilemma By Adam Tinworth Social Media Week - which just concluded - highlighted the tension between those who wanted to contain social media to certain parts of businesses, and those who want it to utterly transform the cultural landscape. The Personal Data Economy – and What It all Means