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The Near-Futurist

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The Near-Futurist

Mind over technological matter

We keep hearing that we're too stressed because we're always on and we spend too much time in...

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Powering the People

So many myths about selling electricity between neighbours and yet it never seems to happen -...

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Sound and Fury

Noise cancelling headphones work by adding noise. What's more, if you measure the annoyance of...

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Shopping Around

Shopping is changing - we're abandoning cash almost without realising it and you can walk out of...

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Reuse your refuse

We are all making too much rubbish and it's going to landfill. This is generally agreed to be a...

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Changing the world a message at a time

What's that? There's another social network out there? There certainly is and we don't mean...

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Your car, your transport of desire

Your car isn't just your vehicle any more, says Yasmine King of ADI - it's your workplace in some...

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Metaverse or metamyth

We've all heard of the metaverse by now - but is it a "thing" or a marketing construct? There are...

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An office of one's own

Received wisdom suggests that we're all going to work flexibly and it's going to be great. Winter...

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Power to the People

Dr. Carol Nakhle of the University of Surrey and Robin Peters of Snugg Energy discuss the energy...

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The Near Futurist trailer: Power to the People

A preview of Friday's Near Futurist interview: * Dr. Carol Nakhle of Surrey University and...

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80. Education, Education, Education

Education was doomed and schools would universally suffer as a result of the pandemic, we were...

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79: Are we ditching the doctor too quickly?

We all have a lot of information about our bodies - we might own smartwatches or phones that...

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Nice to Meat You

Lab-grown meat or factory-made fillets - is the future of meat away from the farm? Daan while Tim...

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77: Space Garbage

It's been an exciting 12 months for astronomy enthusiasts - Jeff Bezos actually took Captain Kirk...

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76: Working in the new environment

We've all heard about the Great Resignation and in this episode of the Near Futurist, Vodafone's...

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75: Graphene, a material for the future

Graphene used to be a theoretical thing but nobody was sure they could extract it - now it has...

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74: An Engineered Earth

A lot of people advocate getting back to nature as the way to preserve the Earth but they may be...

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Flying with reduced carbon

As the Cop26 conference convenes in Glasgow we are aware we'll have to make changes and flying...

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