SECTION 4
How will tomorrow’s technologies permeate our everyday lives?
The Future of the Internet
Rohit Talwar and Alexandra Whittington – a Houston based foresight researcher – describe key forces and factors shaping the next twenty years of the internet and discuss how its role in business and society could evolve.
The Future of Digital Media – The Freexpensive Prerogative
Yates Buckley is a founding partner at UNIT9, an award winning UK digital production agency. He explores how we might use intelligent personal agents to integrate our technology ecosystem to best communicate with us, control access to our personal data, and serve our needs.
Mobile 2030: Scenarios for the Role of Mobile Technology in Society
Alexandra Whittington and Amir Bar – a technology and education professional – present four scenarios exploring how mobile technology could permeate every aspect of our social and professional lives by 2030.
The Impact of Wearable Lifestyle Technologies and Gamification on Business and Society
David Wortley is a Malaysian based author and expert on the strategic use of gamification and enabling technologies for the transformation of business and society. His chapter considers the future potential impact of wearable lifestyle sensor technologies, AI, mobile applications, and gaming concepts on personal and corporate health.
Body-Machine Convergence
Dr Ian Pearson, a globally acclaimed futurist and inventor, takes us on a journey to the frontiers of human enhancement, examining how scientific advances could turn the body into a technology platform and blur the boundaries between man and machine.
The Rise of Neurosocial Networks – The Prospects for Networking our Brains in the Next 20 Years
Martin Dinov is a PhD student and researcher at Imperial College London focused on modeling, understanding and improving attention, cognition and brain function. Andrew Vladimirov is an experienced Ukrainian neuroscientist specializing in stimulation technologies. The authors examine the potential developments in, and applications of neurotechnologies that could allow people to network at a brain-to-brain level.
Life in 2035: Future Consciousness, Cyborgs and Wisdom
Victor Vahidi Motti, a noted and award-winning Iranian scholar and academic futurist, explores how rapid and radical advances in science and technology could disrupt and reformulate our understanding of human capability, wisdom and the nature of work.
The potential for technological singularity and its future impacts on society
Anish Mohammed, a UK-based technologist and security expert, explains the notion of the technological singularity, and examines the potential challenges it could create for humanity.