news from the future
#AskAFuturist: The future of privacy
In response to my #AskAFuturist request, Franck Nijhof asked about the future of privacy. What will be left of our privacy in 50 years?
Extended adolescence
Are kids growing up too fast? Or do we now get to live an extended adolescence, aware of the adult world early but not hitting its markers until later?
Report: Cars of the Future, with Autotrader
Today, we're releasing the report I've been working on with Autotrader on the car of the future.
The Next Big Thing(s)
What is 5G for? What replaces the smartphone? What is the next big thing? Perhaps these questions don't have singular answers.
The internet of the future is a quest to close the gap between physical and digital
The internet of the future will underpin even more of our interactions, both social and commercial, so it must be simple, speedy and seamless.
#AskAFuturist: When will we see the end of cash?
"What year doth dosh disappear forever?" This was the precise question asked on Twitter by Sandy Lindsay MBE. Here's my answer.
- 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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