For all this, the future imagined at NEXT25 is not a binary contest between “us” and “them.” Rather, it’s a creative negotiation of how boundaries are redrawn, and how new kinds of agency, support, ...

Brett starts dancing to John Michael’s instructions, in front of a screen: An Accenture Song team has been building an AI ...

AI is accelerating the spread of misinformation - and people are trying to corrupt LLMs. How do we fight back?

Joe Macleod is founder of the world’s first customer ending business. (Oh, he also was head of design at Ustwo a few years ...

Robots that can learn. Robots that can respond to emotion. Robots that can solve labour force gaps. Are we looking at a ...

What makes the human brain special in the AI era? The answer lies in the way it changes when we start working in ...

Suddenly immersive experiences are everywhere. Is this a technology phenomenon – or one born of a fundamental human need?

What happens when our digital interfaces move into our glasses – or our clothes? A panel discussion at NEXT 25 sought to explore just that.

What’s left for humans when AI can do most of our work? David Mattin provided some answers at NEXT25. These are live-blogged notes from a session at NEXT25 in Hamburg. Posts will be improved over the ...

NEXT itself not enough for you? Your NEXT25 ticket gives you acess to more music and events than you might imagine… Most conferences sit on their own, in splendid isolation. You disappear into an ...

Humanoid robots are evolving into social actors. How are design, trust and open-source reshaping our relationship with machines? For most of their history, robots have been hidden in plain sight. They ...

AI has wrenched our attention back to the devices in our hands. But let’s not forget the need to live in physical spaces that meet today’s needs. AI has shifted the tech discussion so fast that it’s ...