-A digital detox can change your life, via The Huffington Post (from 2014, but very timely imho) “I became increasingly aware that the relentless diet of information I ordinarily consume leaves me feeling the same way I do after eating a couple of slices of pizza or a hot dog and French fries — poorly nourished and still hungry”
-Jobs of the Future: Where They Are, How to Get Them via Fast Company “According to a recent study by online job matching service TheLadders, the fastest growing jobs are in user experience design, iOS and Android development, and business intelligence—some of which didn’t exist before 2007.”
– What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work via the NYT “This approach to business is sometimes called the “Hollywood model.” A project is identified; a team is assembled; it works together for precisely as long as is needed to complete the task; then the team disbands…”
-Sherry Turkle: ‘We're losing the raw, human part of being with each other' via The Guardian “Turkle is optimistic that people will begin to want to reclaim their privacy, to turn back to their relationships with real people. Yet she concedes that the lure of technology is such that it's a tough challenge…”-The Science of Why You Should Spend Your Money on Experiences, Not Things via Fast Company “How adaptation affects happiness, for instance, was measured in a study that asked people to self-report their happiness with major material and experiential purchases. Initially, their happiness with those purchases was ranked about the same. But over time, people's satisfaction with the things they bought went down, whereas their satisfaction with experiences they spent money on went up.”- A must-read by Emily Bell on the relationship of ‘big internet' / ‘big social' and publishers, via CJR “It is inevitable that we’re moving toward a closer relationship between companies that produce the news and platform companies that maintain plausible deniability when it comes to their role as publishers…”
MY CURRENT WORK
- We have added 3 more episodes to ‘The Futures Agency Presents‘ video series on YouTube including the future of work and jobs, and the future of privacy featuring Yuri van Geest, Rohit Talwar and Simon Torrance
- Watch my recent presentation on the future of learning at the Learning Technologies Conference in London, or watch the 5 best excerpts here
- Download PDF versions of my books for free (including ‘the Future of Content')
- I recently joined the Swiss/US startup Niuws as curator for their ‘Futurism' column(please note that the headers are in German but most links are in English:)
- My 2015 topic list has been updated – the ‘future of humanity' is moving centre-stage