Category Archives: The Future

Date For Your Diary: The Singularity

You saw it here first (possibly). Ray Kurzweil is a futurist and a proponent of academic thought on the subject of the technological singularity. He states that there will come a point in human history where computer power matches our own thinking ability, therefore allowing us to interface with machines on a one-to-one basis without […]

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WIRED Intelligence Briefing

My esteemed colleague Mr. James Wheatley this morning attended the first of WIRED magazine’s Intelligence Briefings, where they aim to share some of the trends that they feel are going to be most impactful over the coming year. He has identified the main ideas from their presentation, which I repost here: A New Era of […]

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Martin Miklica’s Le Petit Prince

The Electrolux Design Lab is an annual, global design competition open to undergraduate and graduate industrial design students who are invited to present innovative ideas for household appliances of the future. This year’s theme is ‘Designs For The Next 90 Years’. Awesomeness. Czech designer Martin Miklica is my favourite finalist this year with ‘Le Petit […]

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Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future

Here’s a total re-blog of some interesting thoughts from Get Degrees. It’s lifted wholesale from their article Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future: We know where the jobs are now… but where will they be ten years from now? Twenty? Some job descriptions will always be in need, but many others are evolving […]

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WIRED Found: The Ultimate Collection

I love WIRED magazine. It has excellent features; interesting contributors; an unpatronising writing style; awesome graphic design; unannoying ads; even the paper it’s printed on is good quality. WIRED is, to many, an opinion leading and culturally significant title both on and offline. It’s future facing attitude really suits my own, so I’ve been reading […]

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