news from the future
Future of Rail: Even foresight needs constraints
Sometimes foresight is about breaking constraints and forcing people to think beyond today. But sometimes we need to operate with constraints, to find what it fantastical but not implausible.
Billie Eilish and the interweaving of culture and technology
Was Billie Eilish’s sound and influenced by the audio technology she grew up with? I think so. And that tells a really interesting story about technology and culture influence each other, back and forth.
Cars: the evolving environment debate
The environmental debate around cars changes constantly, with new issues of focus emerging as old ones become tired or at least partially addressed. Where is the debate going next?
Defining the Super City
What if we were to define a ‘super city’ not by size but by its quality? In terms of safety, opportunity, and equality?
Riding around in a Rolls-Royce for Forbes
When a journalist offers to pick you in a £500,000 car, in order to ask you questions about the future of luxury motoring, it’s hard to say no.
How far off are self-driving cars?
Back in 2020 I predicted that we wouldn’t see true self-driving as a mass market option until the 2040s. This week at the FT Future of the Car summit, that belief was reinforced.
- Future Car 4
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 10
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 16
- 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 10
- Future society 11
- Futurism 20
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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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