Ray-Ban Stories let you wear Facebook on your face. But why would you want to?
Facebook is adamant its new “smart glasses” won’t be a privacy nightmare. But it is clearly bidding to normalise the use of wearable tech.
Predicting fashion and replacing solar on The Future, This Week
This week: how COVID-19 reveals how the fashion industry predicts trends, and why the success of solar becomes a problem.
The fashion industry on Corona Business Insights
The fashion industry: the standstill, a window of opportunity and the future of the industry in the wake of the pandemic.
Chicken wars and ring my bell on The Future, This Week
This week: chicken wars – don’t be chicken, eat the balls; and ring my bell.
The words that ate 2018
Each year the Macquarie Dictionary Committee choose a new word that represents the year gone by. Drawn from a short list, the words selected are both innovative and highly topical: so it’s no coincidence we have delved into some of the issues underlying these evolving words.
The Future, This Week 12 Oct 18: Nobel, Facebook, and cost per ‘gram
This week: Nobel interventions, now I see you, and cost per 'gram.
The Future, This Week 14 Sep 18: monopoly platforms, sci-fi, and fishy fashion
This week: platform monopoly, tech between science and fiction, and skinning fish for fashion.
The Future, This Week 31 Aug 18: not-so-obvious, skimming, and excess stuff
This week: that’s obvious, skimming is the new black, and mountains of stuff.
The Future, This Week 25 May 2018
This week: why it's too early to certify AI, and phantom traffic jams and fungi sandals in other news.
Fashion out of fashion
The economics of fashion on show at Davos and it ain’t pretty.
The Future, This Week 02 February 2018
This week: break-in-news, I spy with my data eye, and fashion out of fashion.
Predicting is creating in the science of fashion
If algorithms are taking the art out of fashion, what role is science playing in creating consumer tastes and driving business trends?