How do you harness AI without losing brand distinctiveness and voice? Make sure the human stays a big part of the creative ...

Everything is ending at once – work, truth, screens, and even certainty itself. But we’re finally mature enough to see endings as thresholds. Here’s what we’ve learnt. The year 2025 marked something ...

We’re witnessing a change of power. The Big Tech oligarchy is finally taking over. Democracy will look different after the fact. Not that there hadn’t been disinformation and propaganda before. But ...

Artist and writer James Bridle argues that by sticking to human models of intelligence, we're limiting AI's potential. James Bridle is a writer, artist, and technologist. In the second episode of the ...

Amazon has pioneered a dual strategy of both horizontal and vertical integration. The next Amazon will need a different approach. Let’s have a look at my definition of horizontal and vertical ...

Right after taking the stage at our NEXT Conference Limited Edition in September 2021, Dr Parag Khanna sat down with our conference curator Monique van Dusseldorp to follow up on the important points ...

Our industry is on the move from user-centricity and consumer-centricity to life-centricity. But what does it mean? In the beginning was user-centricity, and user-centricity was with Don Norman’s 1986 ...

What caught your attention in 2024? The distant future of AI, the increasing pushback against the smartphone — and the global impact of the permacrisis and Amazon. It’s a glimpse into a complex world… ...

The annual chinwag in Davos needs to translate ideas into action faster than ever before, as global instability grows. It’s tough being Davos Man these days. Making the annual pilgrimage to the Swiss ...

AI is seriously energy hungry. Our new technology needs new energy — without making the climate crisis worse. What are the solutions? Everything has a price, and that includes AI. And that cost may ...

We’ve been using the graphical interface for decades, while voice assistants have struggled. Could AI be the key that unlocks a new form of computing? For the past 40 years, we’ve known exactly how to ...

The media industry has been trapped in digital disruption for two decades. AI is only going to accelerate that change. Buckle up. The New York-based company joins several digital media companies in ...