Good news: Kindness has gone viral. OK, things are definitely weird now that we're inside for the foreseeable. But on...
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The Littery is Latvia’s answer to reducing the man-made problem of litter waste with the most global of incentives: money....
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As our cities continue to grow, we need to get better at using our transport more efficiently. Yet to encourage...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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Scott Nelson wants to fully embed a a resource-based economy inside existing market capitalism, just by issuing credit to people...
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As more and more sensors, electronics and data radically transform the way we understand cities, Carlo Ratti makes dazzling interactive environments from the information we...
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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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The Cairo-born futurist, technologist and award-winning science fiction author on Elon Musk, how his best ideas come on hikes and why...
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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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It might seem like hyperbole, but NanoLeaf is not just Instagram gold. It's “the most energy efficient LED lightbulb on the planet”. While...
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Last week, Arpa-E Director Dr Ellen Williams announced that her department had developed an energy storage device to rival Elon Musk’s...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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From a Noah’s Ark of seeds and American Idol for rural farmers to 3D printing prosthetics in conflict zones and...
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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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Architects in Beirut are using Miyawaki reforestation to return a polluted river to people and nature and “turn EGO into...
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“We believe that technology and renewable energy will not be enough to save us. And that for once, we should...
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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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Located on Canada’s Pacific Coast, an alliance of First Nations is working to protect the ecosystems of an area that...
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If COVID left you feeling down in the dumps, send in the clowns! It goes without saying that communities...
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As Neil Gaiman wrote, ‘a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.’ So, in the age of internet shopping, what’s...
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15 things that have given me joy as Editor of Atlas of the Future Yes, it’s officially time for me...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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The global sextech industry is huge and growing. If there was ever a time to want more pleasure, it’s during lockdown,...
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The Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. For...
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One of Detroit’s most blighted inner city blocks is being transformed into an eco-village, led by a powerhouse resident with...
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“Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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We've all heard the expression 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Yet we’re all guilty of doing it. And you...
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Despite being born over a thousand years before the invention of the computer, Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the ‘Patron Saint...
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What if buying and selling clothes was illegal? How about a world where synthetic dyes were banned? Or doing laundry...
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Welcome to Groundhog May. In most parts of the world May is a time of joy, when everything seems possible;...
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"It has become crystal clear that food is one of the most valuable things in our lives." Abby Rose was named...
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Maff Potts is the founder of Camerados – a growing social movement in the UK that has a simple, but powerful approach: "looking out...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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A unique media project in Valparaíso, Chile, is challenging stereotypes in an often ageist world of social media, podcasts, blogs and...
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The Olive Network is an online platform that aims to foster tolerance and understanding throughout diverse global communities by focusing on...
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"Not everybody wants to work for money on a platter. Sometimes we do things just because they matter." An economist,...
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In today's world, platforms like AirBnb and Uber are increasingly creating connections and exchanges. Platform co-ops want to go one step further...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ is sharing positive ideas, encouraging young East Africans to take action to improve their lives...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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Blockchain isn't just about finance and Bitcoin, but when Jessi Baker started Provenance that wasn’t the case. That’s why her idea was considered...
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"We either build the future we want, or become the victims of it." As Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for...
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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” In...
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Coneix deu ments brillants que estan canviant el món! Tenen en comú que han trobat solucions a reptes globals que semblava...
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When you find yourselves somewhere between Gotham City Police HQ and Blade Runner’s Leon’s Hotel chatting to a Westworld sexbot you...
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We're big fans of simple tech that makes things better. While mobile Internet rapidly becomes a primary source of knowledge, not...
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Upsetting banks and big businesses worldwide, Blockchain is a global online database that anyone with an internet connection can use. Though the...
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Hacker, activist, geek and poet Birgitta Jónsdóttir is best known for founding Iceland's Pirate Party – a movement of anarchists and techies that asks for direct democratic...
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As we enter a new year, it’s time to look back at our recent videos for Project Breakthrough. Whether it's the ex-American...
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As the world turns upside down and unhinged becomes the new normal, we want to provide some positivity from within...
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Given his job as a futurologist, a lot of fearful, liberally minded types have been asking Mark Stevenson what he thinks about...
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While the Internet gets excited about the fact that the new polymer five pound note plays vinyl, we're celebrating five projects...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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They say "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", but that is not computed by 84-year-old Annie Middelburg, who...
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This year might have had its dark times, but there are many reasons to get excited. From the Faroe Islands to Patagonia,...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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This week Australian computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright claimed that he is the man behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto,...
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We're proud to invite you to the first Atlas of the Future event. On Tuesday 10 May, FutureHero Mark Stevenson...
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The internet's getting fired up over new web browser Brave which claims to block harmful ads and replace them with 'clean...
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Blockchain technology is a real thing. But what is it? A blockchain is a public ledger of all...
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A lot of staring at screens happens at Mobile World Congress – whether tapping away at your own rapidly depreciating handset, ogling smarter...
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The author and futurologist transports us from India to Germany through his top 5 Atlas projects – from teeny, tiny 3D printing to the Airbnb...
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The Devon dairy farmer’s daughter – who left the Pacific to come home and start a little revolution with Village Farm – on the...
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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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