2021 Edition – The Future Reimagined

There has never been a better example of the power of the digital ecosystem than 2020. Ten years ago, the rapid transformation we went through would not have been possible. Taking businesses which used to operate out of big shiny buildings in the hearts of cities and keeping them up…

While campaigning for the 2020 US Presidential election, candidate Andrew Yang warned that automation would jeopardize 1 in 3 American jobs. To avoid an unprecedented crisis, he proposed a universal basic income which he called the “Freedom Dividend”, a policy which would guarantee a $1000 a month check from the…

“Draw me the law of the future!”. Just like in The Little Prince, St Exupéry’s1 highly imaginative novella about a young intergalactic traveler, we wonder in this time of rapid and unpredictable change what the future will bring.…

Accurate, reliable, up to date location information, known professionally as geospatial information, underpins some of the biggest decisions taken each day in many countries.…

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to European Academy of Microbiology member Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany) and Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Berkeley, USA) for “for the development of a method for genome editing”.…

When in August 2020 I Ied the research at UCL that recorded the world’s fastest data transmission speed, reaching 178 terabits a second – or 178,000,000 megabits a second – I paused to reflect on what had led us to achieve this goal, and also my own personal journey from…

In the last two weeks of October 2021, an all-female crew of 6 scientists, engineers and geologists will begin a 14-day mission under Mars-like conditions. …

Out of the turbulence of 2020, one sector is emerging rejuvenated – telecoms. The new mega deals, especially when it comes to digital infrastructure, attest to it.…

Of the 7.4 billion people on this planet, over 4 billion do not have access to the Internet. Of the 2.5 billion people living within 3G/4G network coverage, 1.6 billion live outside the areas of mobile broadband network coverage.…

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the narrative around smart city design and the application of IoT based technologies has changed quite considerably.…

It is undeniable that one of the key current trends is sustainability. Far from being just a marketing campaign, today sustainability is intimately linked to business strategy, consumer behaviour and capital deployment.…

Once seen as a peripheral part of the digital media and communications industry, the video game sector is fast being recognised as a key driver of economic and social connectivity into the future.…

Entrepreneurship is often touted as the key to economic and social advancement, and reduction in youth unemployment recovery post pandemic. As an entrepreneur with many years’ experience, I agree that the goal of unleashing human potential and innovation is paramount in this regard. …