news from the future
Are we buying the coffee or the shop?
Five trends for the future high street
I joined a retail round table discussion where senior executives from a range of big brands engaged in two hours of debate about the future high street
Mum hasn’t gone to Iceland
Mum hasn’t gone to Iceland. Nor has dad. And they haven’t sent the kids. The AI has done the shopping and it has bought you exactly what you need.
Ten ways to disrupt tomorrow
Speaking at the massive RESI conference, I highlighted for an audience of housing experts ten critical trends that will disrupt the future
How smart does a vacuum cleaner need to be?
Even the lowly vacuum cleaner is programmable these days, highlighting the incredible penetration of computing power into our lives
Teaching technology isn't about the economy, it’s about democracy
Digital skills are crucial to the economy, but they are also crucial to all other aspects of modern life, including democracy
- Future Communication 17
- Future Health 8
- 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.
You can search all of my posts through the search box, or click through some of the relevant categories. Purists can search my more complete archive here.