Videos

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  What’s NEXT Episode 8 – Payal Arora: Re-assessing ‘value’ in the global value chain

  In episode 8 of 'What's NEXT', prefessor Payal Arora explored the emerging narratives around rethinking global value chains – and some of the problematic assumptions built into them.

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  What’s NEXT Episode 7 – Ben Sauer: Mind your metaphor: common innovation mistakes in times of change

  In Episode 7 of 'What's NEXT' Ben Sauer argued that we need frameworks to navigate times of crisis. However, the metaphors we choose can have a profound effect on the solutions we create.

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  What’s NEXT Episode 6 – Douglas Rushkoff: Team Human: Is This Game Over?

  In episode 6 of 'What's NEXT' author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff explained that the current crisis offers an opportunity for us to rethink everything from capitalism through media to education.

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  What’s NEXT Episode 5 – Sohail Inayatullah: New narratives for a world in change

  In our fifth episode of 'What’s NEXT', Sohail Inayatullah explored how changing your narrative of the present opens the door to a series of alternative futures, giving you the opportunity to choose the ones you want - and work towards it.

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  What’s NEXT Episode 4 – Pamela Pavliscak: The Future of Feeling (after a Global Pandemic)

  For episode 4 of 'What's NEXT' we welcomed Pamela Pavliscak to our digital stage. She explored our relationships with tech and how machines read our emotions.

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  What’s NEXT Episode 3 – Harper Reed: Community and systems to combat global crisis

  How can we use and channel our pandemic-driven anxiety levels for the common good? And what's the role of technology in all this? We touched upon these and further questions in episode 3 of 'What's NEXT' with Harper Reed.

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  What’s NEXT Episode 2 – Benedict Evans: Paths to the New Normal (incl. presentation highlights)

  In Episode 2, Benedict Evans took viewers of 'What’s NEXT' through a tour of where we are, and where we’re likely going, as we emerge from the shock of being locked down.

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  What’s NEXT Episode 1 – Halt and Catch Fire

  Trend researcher David Mattin, our very own curator Monique van Dusseldorp and NEXT Chief Editor Ina Feistritzer addressed this year’s theme of 'Halt and Catch Fire'.

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  James Bridle – New Dark Age: Is Technology Making the World Harder to Understand?

  Instead of a utopian future in which technological advancement casts a dazzling, emancipatory light on the world, we seem to be entering a new dark age.

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  Viveca Chan – Reshaping Marketing: Digital Innovation from China

  The key digital marketing trends and successful business applications in China.

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  Christian Mio Loclair – How Art Will Help to Understand AI and Humanity

  How art will help us to understand artificial intelligence and human nature.

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  James Beacham – What’s Outside the Universe?

  How the future of science, technology, and innovation will be much wilder – and much more collaborative – than we can imagine.

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  Pamela Pavliscak – A future with feeling

  Pamela Pavliscak will have a guest appearance on ‘What’s NEXT’ Episode 4 on May 28th, 2020. You can sign up…

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  Andrew Keen – How to fix the future

  HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE lays out solutions to the greatest ills of our digital age. I argue that we…

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  Samuel West – Learning from Innovation Failure: Lessons from The Museum of Failure

  The talk of Samuel West uses the stories of the exhibited items as a backdrop to explore the theme ‘Learning…

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  Bruce Sterling – Live from 2027

  Bruce Sterling is so much more than a sci-fi author. He is a journalist, critic and futurist. Expect insights, rage,…