ICT

Forum for the Future worked with O2 to review opportunities for ICT to contribute to a sustainable society. Find out about the huge potential for change in our report, 'Connect, Collaborate, Change' ...

Forum - Project - Jacqueline Culleton - 07/02/2012 - 9:29am - 0 comments

FutureScapes is a collaborative project which is designed to help organisations think about being fit for the future FutureScapes is a collaborative project which aims to explore how ...

Forum - Project - Anonymous - 20/02/2012 - 5:44pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Martin Wright - 30/01/2012 - 10:32am - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 17/01/2012 - 5:36pm - 1 comment

I am writing this from Islay, the most southern island of the Inner Hebrides. It is where my 91 year old mother lives and as usual we’ve spent most of the holiday here. At this time of year storms are normal, but last week’s gale force winds broke ...

Forum - Blog - Sara Parkin - 20/01/2012 - 11:27am - 0 comments

As predicted on this blog a while back we are starting to see projects appear that attempt to create a new internet or circumvent the restrictions being put in place by government and business. One is example is The Darknet Project (TDP). ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 05/01/2012 - 8:15am - 0 comments

And by 'does' I mean launches a programme to get 100 hackerspaces up and running in the Shanghai area. No point wasting your time with a couple eh? "Shanghai Government Technology committee has issued a call for a proposal to ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 19/12/2011 - 8:15am - 0 comments

It is getting towards the end of 2011, and it is time to look at the year ahead. As our name implies, we do use a lot of ‘ futures ’ methods here at Forum for the Future. We scan the horizon, interview experts and speak with senior execs in leading ...

Forum - Blog - David Bent - 20/01/2012 - 11:33am - 0 comments

Well this is pretty audacious. Someone has learnt how to take data off the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weather satellites using some relatively basic electronics that are readily available. The hacker is hoping to set up an ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 12/12/2011 - 2:50pm - 0 comments

Given that the industrial food system is responsible for one third of all man-made GHG emissions (War on Want Food Sovereignty Report, 2011), we can see why consumers are increasingly keen to support local and community-based agriculture. With their ...

Forum - Blog - Anonymous - 12/12/2011 - 2:44pm - 0 comments

This is one of the most unnerving and fascinating developments in research that I have ever come across. Some scientists at UC Berkeley have managed to reconstruct images of what people are looking at by scanning their brains using fMRI. A sample video ...

Forum - Blog - Joy Green - 01/12/2011 - 8:15am - 0 comments

The Department of Homeland Security in the US is 'building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent."' It ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 29/11/2011 - 8:15am - 0 comments

There has been much discussion about social unrest and the role of social networks e.g. Blackberry messenger and the London riots. Now a team have developed a social network that is not only anonymous but also allows you to set a radius for the message ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 18/11/2011 - 8:15am - 0 comments

Scientists have come up with a handheld EEG unit. It uses a commercially available Emotive headset, the signal is transmitted to the users mobile phone. “Total time from reading to display is around 150ms. This allows for quick, on-site ...

Forum - Blog - Alexa Schubert - 17/11/2011 - 8:15am - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Hugh Knowles - 11/11/2011 - 11:32am - 0 comments

Instead of the typical printed sign or white board, I've noticed an increasing number of chauffers using Ipads as the sign for passengers they are collecting from airports and train stations. Yet another step on the road to less paper use. ...

Forum - Blog - Alexa Schubert - 21/10/2011 - 2:15pm - 2 comments

Douglas Adams once wrote that humans "are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." Well it seems like we cannot shake that idea. "Investors, and a number of industry heavies, have just ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 14/10/2011 - 1:15pm - 0 comments

Intel launched a programme at the beginning of this year to sponsor a number of Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTCs) at Universities. Nothing particularly interesting about that except that all research coming out of these centres has to be ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 13/10/2011 - 1:15pm - 0 comments

IBM has created a microprocessor that can 'rewire' connections "as it encounters new information, similar to the way biological synapses work." The microprocessor does not resolder connections but rather dials up and dials ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 29/09/2011 - 1:15pm - 0 comments

By 2040 it’s estimated that two in three people are expected to live in urban environments. Anyone who’s ever tried to navigate the London transport system at rush hour will know that moving around our overpopulated cities can be a stressful pass time. ...

Forum - Blog - Claire Wyatt - 15/09/2011 - 12:24pm - 0 comments