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.
Building the Bionic Banker
When it comes to our banking interactions, there is good friction and there is bad friction. Eliminate the good friction and you risk customer loyalty.
Future Energy: Why batteries beat hydrogen
Hydrogen and fuel cells absolutely have a place in the future energy mix. But batteries will take the majority of the market share. Here's why.
What Apple’s announcements mean for the future of TV
Apple's big name content signings have caught all the headlines, but its move into curation is much more important for the future of TV
The ideology at the heart of the web
The goal for the web is to create a single source of knowledge accessible to all humanity. Every attempt to splinter it undermines this goal. We have a choice to make.
Bright but bleak: futurism and climate change
It's hard to enjoy the weather when the climate presents such a threat. The solutions are frustratingly simple, just expensive.
- 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.
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