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Dance Specialists Turn Tables on the Music Industry
I remember going into Leeds in 2004 and receiving disapproving looks from staff at the five dance record shops I used to frequent if I went in with a bag from any of their rivals. Now only one of those...
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Who Should Games Developers Vote For?
An industry calling for tax breaks in a recession may seem like an industry disconnected from reality, but the case for supporting Britain’s considerable videogames industry is becoming increasingly...
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Product Placement May Now Be Restricted, But Still Breaks Television’s...
After the black and white, the shades of grey: the government’s decision to allow product placement on UK television was modified yesterday to restrict “alcoholic drinks, HFSS [high in fat, sugar or...
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London’s New US Embassy Shows How Far Counter-terrorist Architecture Has Come
There’s quite the kerfuffle in the architecture world today, surrounding the selection of Philadelphia firm KieranTimberlake for the design of a new US embassy in London. Richard Rogers (of Lloyds of...
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Now More Than Ever, Content is King for Magazines
After we covered their London conference last year, the good people at FIPP, the global magazine industry body, have sent over their Innovations in Magazines 2010 World Report. And like the conference...
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Election Day Gives a Glimpse at the Future of News
If you tune into the TV or radio today, you’ll get one of the delightful weirdnesses of election day – the fact that the media aren’t allowed to report on what’s going on. Thanks to impartiality rules...
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Is Julian Assange’s Visibility Damaging Wikileaks?
At our Data Journalism event this week, we got a uniquely informed perspective on how journalism is changing in the wake of Wikileaks and other whistleblowing services making data sets available....
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FutureEverything: The Data Dimension
I just had a brief last-minute jaunt to Manchester for FutureEverything, the art/music/tech/thoughts festival that’s now in its 16th year (and originally dubbed Futuresonic for the first few of those)....
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Introducing… Red Pop
Our next Future Human event is Micro Manufacturing, where we’ll be looking at how 3D printing and other new manufacturing processes are getting Britain off its knees, reinvigorating its economy, and...
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Playful 2011: Learning The Value of Childish Things
Last week we were fortunate enough to be invited to Playful, a one-day conference centered on play, storytelling, futurology and gaming (video or otherwise). Featuring 12 speakers who covered...
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Hacking the Future of the Book Industry
Last week, we attended the latest event from the Media Futures team, entitled Publish! A Day of Innovation on the Future of the Book. It lasted a full day and featured a number of presentations and...
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Do androids dream of ‘creative bureaucracy’?
What is it that makes innovation flow in a city? This was the principal question of our Liquid City salon last year and is the holy grail for urban developers. For governments, the line of thinking...
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