Videos

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  Kübra Gümüşay: Language & Future

  Kübra Gümüsay explored the power of language, how it shapes the way we think and perceive the world – and its implication on our culture and political discourse.

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  Benedict Evans: Three Steps to the Future

  The most exciting themes in technology today are transformative visions for 2025 or 2030: crypto, web3, VR, metaverse… and then everything else.

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  Jessica Berlin: War & Biz: What current global crises mean for you, your business, & our world

  Right now, war is raging in Europe. These are the after times. When Russia invaded Ukraine, things would never be the same again.

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  Trevor McFedries & Monique van Dusseldorp: How DAOs Could Shape Culture and the Way We Work

  What will the future of decentralized media look like? Trevor McFedries shares the story of Friends with Benefits, Web3’s premier Social DAO.

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  Pa Sinyan: How Strengths-Based Leadership Drives Creativity, Performance & Wellbeing

  We are living through a profound transformation of the world of work. Work might be the most broken system there is. It’s making people miserable.

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  James Bridle: A Crab Computer the Size of the World

  Biological, non-binary, and relational computing offer a vision of a cybernetic future which learns from the animals, plants and other organisms around us, while contributing to global regeneration.

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  Ana Andjelic: How Brands are Experimenting with Web3

  Could the blockchain change the relationship between brands and consumers, reshape supply and demand — and revolutionise how we think about ownership?

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  Nick Law: Deep Simplicity – Designing our Way Out of Complexity

  While the internet has created infinite opportunities, it has also created chaos. Solving this complexity crisis is a design problem.

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  Mikko Hypponen: If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable

  Mikko Hypponen delivers an eye-opening exploration of the best – and worst – things the internet has given us.

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  Francesca Bria: How Data May Help Cities to Become More Democratic and Sustainable

  The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated some of the most pressing urban challenges. What role can technological humanism play here?

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  Kate Stone: 6 Reasons Why the Future Will Look More Like the Past

  Combining meaning, resilience, mindfulness and community with shrinking technology, we have the ingredients for a potentially brighter and more sustainable future.

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  Parag Khanna: Move – The Impact of Migration

  As climate change tips towards a full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilize and technology disrupts, we’re also entering a new…

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  Timandra Harkness: Our Personalised Century

  If the last century was the Mass Century – mass production, mass marketing, mass media and the rise of mass…

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  Mark Curtis: Designing Sustainable Experiences

  Today, consumers demand sustainability. People are starting to understand that more consumption is bad. But they are still existing in…

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  Amy Webb: Synthetic and artificial: The future of business

  In the final episode of season two of WHAT'S NEXT, futurist Amy Webb explored how to spot real, meaningful trends amongst the noise, and how to turn that into a strategy.

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