news from the future
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
Travel and payments: two differences between British and German high streets
Travel shows us how differently change affects different markets. There is no single future, everyone is touched differently by waves of change
Applied Futurism in 2019
New brand, new website, new book, new courses: this is what you can expect from me and applied futurism in 2019
Future batteries: new ways to store energy
Future batteries might store more and charge faster, or they might be built into the structure of our houses or vehicles.
Halfway between a stranger and a friend
Greater community engagement and peer support can't replace our over-stretched services and crumbling infrastructure. But it can mitigate their effects.
Raging against the invisible machine
The Luddites smashed machines they could see that were taking their jobs. How will the new Luddites rage against invisible, ephemeral machines?
- 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.