news from the future
Don’t dismiss AI as a creative tool
I see more negative stories about AI than I do positive ones right now. That’s understandable. Concerns about copyright, jobs, environmental impact, weaponisation, security are all sensible. But we shouldn’t ignore the fact that this iteration of AI is also an incredibly powerful creative tool.
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.
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.
The Next Big Thing(s)
What is 5G for? What replaces the smartphone? What is the next big thing? Perhaps these questions don't have singular answers.
What Apple’s announcements mean for the future of TV
Apple's big name content signings have caught all the headlines, but its move into curation is much more important for the future of TV
When recycled material is better than new
Adding single layer materials like graphene to recycled plastics can create a range of new materials with properties perfectly suited to their application
- Future Car 4
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 10
- Future Media 10
- Future Technology 18
- 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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