Smart Earth: How our planet gets digital

By Martin Recke

Digitising the planet can help mitigate some of the most pressing challenges, such as climate change. But it also raises some familiar questions.

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.

Protopia now: Monika Bielskyte on designing better futures for humanity

By Adam Tinworth

Beyond flawed utopias and damaging dystopias, lie more positive, inclusive and radical visions: protopias. The NEXT Show explores how to build better systems for living.

Beyond digital childhood: a new, more nuanced, tech utopianism

By Adam Tinworth

George Dyson wrote that we're at the end of the digital's world's childhood. How do we make sure it grows up into a well-rounded adult?

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.