news from the future
Betamax was not better than VHS
VHS didn't win because of porn. VHS didn't win because of marketing. VHS won by matching features and price to the consumer's needs. And that's technical superiority.
Securing the Extended Human: Script & Slide Deck
How will we secure the extended human, one augmented by but also completely reliant on, digital technologies at home and at work?
Why I Hated the iPhone, and What Amazon Can Learn from It
Four Fears for the Future of Drones
Drones may look like a panacea for our delivery challenges, but they have issues of their own around safety, security, privacy and pollution
- Future Communication 17
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- 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.
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