Civic technology, often called CivicTech, is usually defined as technologies to enable constructive engagement between citizens and government. However I frame it more broadly as technologies that help us create a better society. I think the distinction is important, as even in these times of enlarged government roles, I believe the future does not lie […]
We are living amidst a frightening global pandemic that we are working hard to contain and move past as quickly as possible. So what comes on the other side of this phase? We need to be thoughtful about what we call it. I have compiled a list below of some of the front-runner phrases, with […]
One of the biggest differences between now and a few months ago is that scheduled flights have almost ceased, from over 8 trillion kilometres travelled in 2019 (an average of over 1000 km per man, woman and child on the planet). Recently I wrote 9 insights into the future of air travel in a post-coronavirus […]
A couple of days I was a guest on ABC’s The Drum program. One of the questions I was asked was the degree to which we will continue to work from home after the pandemic. For my response watch the brief video below, or see the full program online, this segment starts at 45:00. Below […]
The chart below of weekly initial US unemployment claims puts into context the scope and scale of the economic and employment impact of the pandemic. The long horizontal scale of chart, giving us temporal perspective, actually hides the extent of the problem, with the spike at the end in fact comprising three weeks of new […]
The evidence is now in on what was already clear: the advertising and marketing industries are getting slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. However there are ways that the industry, particularly from an advertiser perspective, could reinvent itself.
When I searched my blog for mentions of pandemic, one mention came up in a post I wrote in 2014 on Four scenarios for 2030. One of the scenarios from that exercise may be enormously relevant today.
Since I do significant work on the future of travel, I was sought out for an interview earlier today about the future of air travel, something very much up in the air at the moment, one could say! Below are some of the points I shared with the journalist.
The good news is that over the last week new cases are plateauing or even reducing in many countries, including Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, and a range of Western European countries. Of course new cases are still rising alarmingly in other countries, most notably the US, though also in UK, Canada, and France. The chart […]
News is just out that Facebook has locked up an exclusive deal with microLED leader Plessey to supply next-generation micro displays to power augmented reality glasses. Read on for the context and implications… Beyond smartphones will likely be smartglasses After the TV and desktop came the laptop and tablet and then the smartphone. The progress […]
