news from the future
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.
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.
My 2025 Predictions
Today I’m recording the first of my annual radio chats making predictions for 2025. So it’s time that I review last year’s predictions as well.
How do we address digital overload?
In preparation for a talk I decided to look at the wider context of our communications landscape. And as part of that, I audited my own digital communications. Here’s what I found.
The year of the android: My new column
For the first installment of my new column for BI Foresight, a publication from Bristol Innovations, I’ve looked at my prediction that 2024 would be the year of the android, how I came to that conclusion, and whether it’s holding up.
What to expect in 2023
Every year I get asked for my predictions for the year ahead. Here's what I'm telling people - including Times Radio’s John Pienaar
- Future Car 2
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 10
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 16
- Future of Business 10
- Future of Cities 8
- 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 8
- Future of Work 9
- 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.
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.