news from the future
Is your business a train or a truck?
In an age of high frequency change, businesses like trucks are much more successful than businesses like trains.
Season Two of Dough is a wrap…or should that be, a loaf?
Dough is the BBC Radio 4 show about the everyday products that are so common we almost forget that they are still big business - and still advancing.
The Age of Quality
Future technology will not be obvious or flashy. It will be invisible, efficient, and ubiquitous. It will be enduring. Tomorrow’s technology might be one pillar of an age of quality.
If you want the right skills, train people
We’ve stopped investing in people. And until we do, we have no right to complain about skills shortages. Especially while every employee is becoming more valuable.
Generation Beta: Meaningless grift or useful demographic identifier?
Generation Beta is here. What does it mean for you? And does it mean anything at all? Or is all this generation stuff just grift?
The AI Opportunities Action Plan
What does the UK government’s new AI Opportunities Action Plan actually mean?
Not unusually, I find myself having to answer this question in a bit more depth than I might otherwise have done, and at short notice.
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 8
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 10
- Future of Business 10
- Future of Cities 8
- Future of Education 6
- Future of Energy 8
- Future of Finance 18
- Future of Food 4
- Future of Housing 3
- Future of Humanity 22
- Future of Retail 9
- Future of Sport 1
- Future of Transport 8
- Future of Work 8
- Future society 11
- Futurism 20
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.
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