news from the future
Is craft the future?
How do we revalue human skills in an age of AI and automation? Where do we draw the line between a tool and a digital team member? Thinking of craft as something that requires the more human - and perhaps more valued - skills of curation, creation, and communication, is one lens through which to examine the problem.
Tom OS: How AI transformed my workflow in a weekend
I’ve built a new workflow system to help me handle my busiest year yet. And thanks to AI, it only took me a weekend.
Telling stories: Gorton and Denton
There are lessons to be learned for everyone from the result of the Gorton and Denton by-election. And they’re not all about politics.
A high quality future
It might be hard to believe when AI slop is everywhere, but there are signs that we are beginning to value quality over quantity
The Future is Fuzzy
Bold statements by prominent figures about what might be possible and when do little to inform and often confuse the foresight process
Meet Tomorrow: A World to Look Forward to
My latest work is a collaboration with Zurich and the science fiction author, Alastair Reynolds. An optimistic vision of 2050.
- Future Car 4
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 10
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 17
- Future of Business 10
- Future of Cities 9
- Future of Education 7
- Future of Energy 8
- Future of Finance 19
- Future of Food 6
- Future of Housing 3
- Future of Humanity 22
- Future of Retail 9
- Future of Sport 1
- Future of Transport 9
- Future of Work 12
- Future society 12
- Futurism 20
- clippings 1
Archive Note
The archive of posts on this site has been somewhat condensed and edited, not always deliberately. This blog started all the way back in 2006 when working full time as a futurist was still a distant dream, and at one point numbered nearly 700 posts. There have been attempts to reduce replication, trim out some weaker posts, and tell more complete stories, but also some losses through multiple site moves - It has been hosted on Blogger, Wordpress, Medium, and now SquareSpace. The result is that dates and metadata on all the posts may not be accurate and many may be missing their original images.
You can search all of my posts through the search box, or click through some of the relevant categories. Purists can search my more complete archive here.