Relationships are the future
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Tom Cheesewright on Rather than looking at people or objects, we can learn much about the future by examining the changing relationships between them
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‘I am not a cat’: what this week’s #zoomfail says about the future of identity
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Tom Cheesewright on On the internet, no-one knows you’re a dog…or a lawyer
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You can’t dig yourself out of a hole
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Tom Cheesewright on The economic picture is bleak. We can’t cut our way out. It’s time to invest. We just need to do it in the right places.
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A digital life after death
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Tom Cheesewright on Microsoft has filed a patent to turn someone’s digital personality into a chatbot. Is this our first attempt at resurrection?
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And so, this is Christmas…
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Tom Cheesewright on Another year over and a new one… about to begin. What happened? And what does the new year hold? Here are my 2021 predictions
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The brain in the jar
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Tom Cheesewright on The brain in the jar is a staple of science fiction: minds that can be dropped into new bodies or digital environments. But it’s wrong.
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Jack of all trades
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Tom Cheesewright on To be ‘a Jack of all trades’ has been variously a compliment and an insult, and most recently, an attack on expertise. But is it what we need to be?
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We’re still human
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Tom Cheesewright on Lockdown is excluding us from tactile experiences. Any answer to this & future pandemics cannot divorce our digital consciousness from physical interaction.
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Hypertribalism
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Tom Cheesewright on Low friction global communication has enabled our fracture into tiny tribes, each with strong views, tight borders, and fierce opposition
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The future holiday: long but costly
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Tom Cheesewright on In my research into the future holiday, I looked at the pressures facing the future of travel and the trends that will define how we vacation.
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COVID has highlighted continuing class divides
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Tom Cheesewright on Discussions of class are rather muted alongside louder debates of race, sex, gender and age. But class is an important conversation in age uncertainty.
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A race between the four horsemen
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Tom Cheesewright on Four horsemen of disaster are vying to define our next three decades. Which one lands its blows first will determine our future.
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