news from the future
is AI Frying Your Brain?
The new phenomenon of ‘AI brain fry’ apparently comes from the stress of overseeing hyper-productive machines. But is it also related to the new mode of work that AI enables, infiltrating our downtime?
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.
Work should be good for you
We cannot close the productivity gap by emulating other people’s hard work cultures. We need to evolve our own, and invest in the overcoming the barriers to higher productivity in a modern context.
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.
Future working: what does the company of the future look like?
- 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 13
- 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.
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