news from the future
#AskAFuturist: When will we see the end of cash?
"What year doth dosh disappear forever?" This was the precise question asked on Twitter by Sandy Lindsay MBE. Here's my answer.
Future Payments: Informed implicit consent
Cash usage is declining at an incredible rate. What will future payments look like? Frictionless, automatic, and based on implied consent.
More than money
Hosting an event for the ICAEW on the UN Sustainable Development goals, I ask, can the next generation reinvent the social contract?
Death by a thousand cuts: How innovation can bring the banks into line
The banks hold positions of power in our society and our economies. They're too big to fail in one go, but they are susceptible to many smaller losses.
- Future Communication 17
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- Future of Business 10
- Future of Cities 8
- Future of Education 6
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- Future of Finance 18
- Future of Food 4
- Future of Housing 3
- Future of Humanity 22
- Future of Retail 9
- Future of Sport 1
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- 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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