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In 2019, we launched a multimedia series in which business leaders and McKinsey experts describe what the 2030s might look like. We called the series The Next Normal, to refer to things that experts say could become commonplace in a few years but today are cutting-edge or even nonexistent: things like lab-grown meat, or digital wardrobes, or robot surgeons.
- The Future of The High-Rise
In this edition, The Next Normal explores the high-rise of...
- The Future of Parcel Delivery
Everybody likes to get a package. In 2020, we'll send more...
- The Future of Car Buying
The Next Normal imagines the car buyers and car dealerships...
- The Future of Entertainment
In this collection, experts explore the future of...
- Capability Building
The next ten years will bring fundamental changes to our...
- The Future of The High-Rise
Jan 8, 2024 · 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Every year, the reporters and editors at MIT Technology Review survey the tech landscape and pick 10 technologies that we think have the greatest potential to change ...
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- Personal Flying Transportation
- Living Homes as Our Own Personal Factories
- What Won't Change - The Nature of Humanity
- Ai Will Augment, Not Replace Humans
- The Abolition of Ageing
- Will The UK Become A Surveillance State?
- Data Becomes More Honest
- Recapturing Human Identity
- The Battle to Regulate Big Tech
- Returning to The Moon
Over the course of the last year a number of jetpack and personal flying machines were developed and successfully flown by engineers from across the world. French inventor Franky Zapata said he had only a "50% chance of success" when he attempted to cross the Channel on his flyboard. But he did it. And former Royal Marine Richard Browning used a je...
Professor Rachel Armstrong is a professor of experimental architecture at Newcastle University, and co-ordinator of the living architectureproject. She said: "By the year 2030 houses are more self-sufficient in terms of energy and resources to the point where we are weaned off fossil fuel-based domestic systems. "Using the incredible processing pow...
Professor Genevieve Bell has a PhD in cultural anthropology and after a long career at tech giant Intel now heads the 3A Institute in Australia, examining the human impact of AI. She told Sky News: "When asked about the future, I often look at the past. It might not give us the answers, but it always helps me frame better questions and points of vi...
Dr Nicola J Millard is a BT principal innovation partner. She isn't a technologist but combines psychology with futurology to try to anticipate what might be lying around the corner. She said: "Although artificial intelligence has yet to reach the sophistication of R2D2 or C3PO, there is no doubt that automation will impact us all in the future. "A...
"Death, thou shalt die," wrote the 17th century metaphysical poet and Church of England cleric John Donne. His point was spiritual, but for David Wood, the co-leader Transhumanism UK, the "abolition of ageing" is a real goal to pursue. He spoke to Sky News for a fascinating episode of Off Limitsearlier this year, alongside Dr Ian Pearson, a futurol...
Silkie Carlo is the director of Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties NGO which campaigns against state surveillance in the UK. She told Sky News: "2020 will be a turning point for the future of surveillance in the UK. "We'll have a definitive judgment from the highest court in Europe on whether mass surveillance breaches human rights. "We'll also h...
Renate Samson is a senior policy adviser at the Open Data Institute. Her vision of the future is one in which the value of data is collectively and collaboratively realised. She said: "Data is a new form of infrastructure for us and for society as a whole. "In 2030 the world of data will probably look much like it does today, but we will have a mor...
Andrew Orlowski is director of the research network Think of X. He predicts that marketing-driven ideas about human identity which have been adopted by Facebook and Google will begin to recede. He said: "The public keeps delivering up shocks to our experts, who now seem to live in a perpetual state of surprise. "And for that you can blame the pop p...
Rowland Manthorpe is the technology correspondent at Sky News. He found a serious issue in European efforts to tackle competition issues posed by the Silicon Valley giants. This is his analysis. In a wide-ranging interviewat the start of her second term as European competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager acknowledged reforms demanded from firm...
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, and now a number of national agencies and private companies are planning on returning mankind to the moon by 2030. The US space agency NASA plans to not only return to the moon before 2030, but to journey beyond it and land a human on Mars, although that may not take place within the decad...
Apr 20, 2020 · We have never lived in a time of faster and more transformative technology innovation. Here, we look at the 25 technology trends that will define the next decade and the 4th industrial revolution.
May 7, 2019 · The directions we go and choices we make will have enormous impacts on our lives, careers, businesses, and the world. Here are my predictions of how nine important trends will evolve by 2030 — listed in order roughly from nearly certain to very likely to hard to say.
- Andrew S. Winston
Aug 11, 2012 · Lithium-ion batteries. In 2030, just as today, nearly all of my son’s gadgets from his smartphone to his laptop and his electric or hybrid car will be powered by lithium-ion batteries. Over the ...
Jan 9, 2023 · Every year, we pick the 10 technologies that matter the most right now. We look for advances that will have a big impact on our lives and break down why they matter.
