news from the future
What will cities be like in the future?
If we are to address some of the major crises of our time: climate change, the ageing population, economic disruption, then we need more of us to be living in cities, not fewer.
What’s the future for the construction industry?
The construction industry desperately needs modernising. See how trends in city planning and materials are changing its face.
Why smart cities are important
Smart cities have been the subject of aggressive marketing from the major tech companies for some years. Their development has come to be seen by some as a success of technology marketing over citizen need. Something of a corporate takeover.
The future of the city: how can communities work together for change?
If you want to save the planet, live in a city. Even better, live in a city centre.
The city is dead. Long live the city.
I appeared on Radio 4's Moral Maze this week. Here is a version of the argument I made in favour of the city - the only answer to the three crises we face.
The distributed home
As our homes shrink, we are sharing more and more 'third spaces' as part of our 'distributed home', with coffee shops & gyms all extending our living space.
- 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.
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.