Crowdsourced funding is going from strength to strength these days, and when the Pebble ePaper Watch achieved more than 10,000% of its funding goal to raise $10,266,845 the new era had officially arrived.… Continue Reading
2050 Pathways: The Numbers of a Green Economy
The 2050 Pathways calculator is an impressive piece of open-source kit, allowing you to prioritise different avenues for both energy consumption and supply in an attempt to meet current emission reduction targets – “showing the benefits, costs and trade-offs of different versions of the future”.… Continue Reading
Taking a Digital Holiday: Are We Digital Natives or Addicts?
It was quite clear that I had become habitual in my smartphone use over and beyond its capacity to enhance my lifestyle, mindless in my use that allowed impulsive behaviour patterns to lead the way. I was a digital addict, and my paraphernalia of choice was manufactured by Samsung working in tandem with those Android peddlers over at Google.… Continue Reading
2013: The Year of the Futurist
Futurist thinking is starting to become mainstream. We need a world filled with futurists – so are you ready to call yourself one?… Continue Reading
9 Futurist Predictions for 2013
Since the new year must bring some new predictions here are nine areas that I think will see important milestones or changes in public sentiment in 2013.… Continue Reading
A Very Futurist Christmas: Top Products for 2012
For a futurist, this period of gift-giving is a great time to canvas cutting edge products to see how the technological trends we like to observe are making their way into mainstream use.… Continue Reading