Whatever happened to the metaverse? Less than five years ago, it was the future of technology. Has its day come and gone? The tech world has a long and ignoble history of utterly failing to predict ...

‘48 hours to save the world’ was the slogan of the Creativity Jam Hamburg. Jens Otto Lange invited the NEXT Service Design audience to this event. The aim of the jam is to bring creative people ...

The energy transition is succeeding invisibly. AI infrastructure and market economics are driving the shift to clean energy faster than policy ever could. The most important infrastructure revolution ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

Both technological and demographic trends are reshaping the way we work — and who is available to do that work. Time to start preparing. What will the office look like in 2030? Will that even be a ...

The Las Vegas tech showcase revealed that artificial intelligence’s real bottleneck isn’t algorithmic brilliance – it’s the unglamorous physics of power, cooling, and manufacturing capacity. Jensen ...

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 ...