news from the future

27/06/2018 27/06/2018

Tomorrow's cars will reshape our cities

Cars shaped today's cities. Tomorrow's cars will reshape our cities, as we move to a world of autonomous electric vehicles.

22/06/2018 22/06/2018

The distributed home

As our homes shrink, we are sharing more and more 'third spaces' as part of our 'distributed home', with coffee shops & gyms all extending our living space.

03/05/2018 03/05/2018

TSB: When tech is everything, failure is only human

Technology failures are almost always human failures when you examine the detail. Technology allows us to do more and shouldn't take the blame.

23/04/2018 23/04/2018

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.

20/04/2018 20/04/2018

Blockchain will change the world. Or not.

12/04/2018 12/04/2018

A cult of culture

With the decline of religion, do we need a 'cult of culture' to bind us together and distribute a shared set of morals and values?

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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