Verdict Email The issues you care about
Future thoughts
Engaging articles on future thoughts about our society. Verdict looks at a host of topics, including the impacts of radical technological developments and how our society may change as a result. We get insight from key thought leaders, major players and creative greats to explore how the technology in the world around us is changing the way we live.
-
5 Nov
Graphene: From incremental innovation to disruptive design
Graphene layers were only first successfully extracted from graphite in 2004, but chances are graphene is already in your mobile phone, car, tennis racquet or the wings of an aircraft you’ve flow in.
-
26 Sep
Boris Johnson’s bizarre guide to the future where tech reigns supreme
At the United Nations in New York, prime minister Boris Johnson used his inaugural address to provide an eyebrow-raising glimpse of the future, one where technology reigns supreme.
-
31 Jul
TrailGuard AI: AI-powered cameras deployed to protect against poachers
Mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has teamed up with environmental non-profit RESOLVE to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) powered system to protect endangered wildlife from poachers across the African continent.
-
26 Jul
RSA and Orwell Foundation envisage ‘dystopian’ future of work if tech is not controlled
Economic turmoil following a widespread cyberattack, constant workplace monitoring and rating systems determining social worth.
-
8 Jul
‘Smart’ glass that lasts “thousands of years” identifies images without power
Engineers say they’ve created a method for making ‘smart’ glass that recognises images without the need for sensors, circuits or power.
-
14 Jun
Stuff Elon Musk said: The Tesla CEO’s most notable soundbites
It wasn’t entirely clear why Elon Musk would be making an appearance at E3, the world’s leading video game industry event, but now we know: to promote the video games and apps coming to Tesla’s in-vehicle system, but also to let us know that our existence might be inside a video game.
-
14 Mar
Disrupting beauty: Will technology or nature win out?
Disrupting beauty is big business.
-
14 Feb
Jobs of the future: Three roles you could be doing in 2040
It is widely known that many of the jobs of the future don’t yet exist.
-
9 Jan
The future of living: The new smart home devices starring at CES 2019
With gadget manufacturers working hard to make just about everything smart, the Consumer Electronics Show has provided a look into the home of the future, where your toilet flushes itself and your mirror calls a doctor when you’re sick.
-
28 Dec
Blade Runner 2019: How close are we to the film’s vision of the future?
In 1982 the film Blade Runner provided us with a stunning but utterly dystopian vision of the year 2019.
-
30 Nov
Saving our cities: How predictive analytics will shape our urban landscapes
If you’ve ever set foot on a train at rush hour, been stuck in an inner-city traffic jam or tried negotiating the sidewalks around popular tourist traps around the globe, then you have experienced the impact of mass urbanisation.
-
29 Nov
Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web and Solid: “Vague, but exciting”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the whimsical World Wide Web, is the man responsible for tweet-bot election manipulation and Facebook data breaches.
-
26 Oct
“Sentient, intelligent and conversational” voice technology to become widespread by 2025
Highly sophisticated digital assistants driven by voice technology will become commonplace by 2025, according to a thematic research report by GlobalData Technology.
-
10 Oct
John Cleese: What technology has in common with comedy
What does technology have in common with comedy?
-
24 Sep
The CGI models causing fear in the fashion industry
Fashion brands often cause controversy with the choice of models in their latest campaigns, but when French fashion house Balmain came under fire recently for the brands autumn 2018 collection, it wasn’t because their models were too thin or too fat but because they are not real people.
-
16 Aug
Voice-activated technology could prompt the demise of regional accents, research finds
Regional accents could decline with the growth of voice-activated technology as more people alter their speech to be understood by personal digital assistants and other voice-controlled products.