news from the future
Cash isn’t dead (just yet)
After a quiet couple of weeks on the media front, I find myself back on BBC 5Live talking about the death of cash, following a discussion in parliament about legislation to ensure its continued support by retailers.
Disrupting housebuilding
How do you disrupt our broken housing market? Make it easier to build than buy, cheaper to build than rent, and give people security & sustainability
When half our money is spent online
What happens when half our money is spent online? What will it do to jobs, shops, and cities? Things looked bleak after 2008, but there is a long way to go.
The future of consumer credit
Our attitudes to debt are changing, while technology eases our access to borrowing. What is the future of consumer credit in a low-friction world?
Building the Bionic Banker
When it comes to our banking interactions, there is good friction and there is bad friction. Eliminate the good friction and you risk customer loyalty.
Currency, Currents & Erosion: Future Money 2015
The future of money sees complexity fall away, eroded by the friction inherent in the system, washed away by waves of innovation.
- 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.
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