Are humans really necessary?

Are humans really necessary?

It was two days of great minds exchang­ing thoughts about sus­tain­able lead­er­ship, man­age­ment, inno­va­tion — and tech­nol­o­gy. It hap­pened in War­saw on 26 – 27 April, and I was both a keynote speak­er and one of 61 peo­ple on six pan­els dis­cussing...
Pareto On Steroids

Pareto On Steroids

Vilfre­do Fed­eri­co Dama­so Pare­to was born in Italy in 1848,” wrote Kevin Kruse (@Kruse) for @Forbes [link] about a year ago. And he does as good a job as any­one at sum­ming up why Pareto’s think­ing is remem­bered today. Leg­end has it that one day he...
New Next Now (October 2016)

New Next Now (October 2016)

Down the hatch. A new break­through in micro­ro­bot­ics might just change the way we take our med­i­cine, reports Lyn­da Delacey (@LJDelacy) for @nwtls. Sci­en­tists at the Daegu Gyeong­buk Insti­tute of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (DGIST) in South Korea have...
New Next Now (August 2016)

New Next Now (August 2016)

Here’s our month­ly review of the best of the many arti­cles, books, videos and ideas-in-oth­er-forms that our Deputy Edi­tor Kyle Elzy has found for you. The nextsens­ing mind, we believe, is always stretch­ing to see beyond the mar­ket­place hori­zon. Let’s get...

Digital: The Next Industrial Revolution

In newly built (or renovated) homes in developed countries, it’s not unusual to have thermostats that control when different parts of the house are heated or cooled. A step beyond that are more computerised thermostats that can sense whether anyone is in a room or not...