Working in the Metaverse: What Virtual Office Life Could Look Like
By Sam Gilbert
In the context of work, the digital divide has become less about access to devices and connectivity and more about skills and mindset. Many...
How the Tech Giants are Innovating to Weather the Looming Downturn
By Howard Yu
Rising inflation and looming recessions are squeezing household finances, but businesses also worry about an economic downturn. This is not just because...
Shhhh, They’re Listening – Inside the Coming Voice-Profiling Revolution
By Joseph Turow
You decide to call a store that sells some hiking boots you’re thinking of buying. As you dial in, the computer of...
Tourism and the Metaverse: Towards a Widespread Use of Virtual Travel?
By Naïma Aïdi
The metaverse can be defined as a set of virtual shared spaces that are indexed in the real world and accessible via 3D interaction....
NFTs Are Much Bigger Than an Art Fad – Here’s How They Could Change...
By James Bowden and Dr. Edward Thomas Jones
Sotheby’s has become the latest establishment name in art to dive into NFTs (non-fungible tokens) through its...
The Metaverse Isn’t Here Yet, But it Already Has a Long History
By Professor Tom Boellstorff
Nattie’s metaverse romance began with anonymous texting. At first “C” would admit only to living in a nearby town. Nattie eventually...
Can You Truly Own Anything in the Metaverse? A Law Professor Explains How Blockchains...
By João Marinotti
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this...
Transforming to Hybrid Work: The Importance of Cloud-Based Solutions
By David De Cremer
With the arrival of the pandemic, a new way of working also arrived: working remotely. Companies were forced to keep their...
The Self-Driving Trolley Problem: How will Future AI Systems make the most Ethical Choices...
By Jumana Abu-Khalaf and Paul Haskell-Dowland
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already making decisions in the fields of business, health care and manufacturing. But AI algorithms...
As a Global Infrastructure Giant, Facebook must Uphold Human Rights
By Wendy H. Wong
Facebook — its new corporate name is Meta — has always wanted to get to know you. Its public goal has ostensibly been...
The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet
By Ray Schroeder
We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
Adapting In An Ever-Changing Business World: When Culture Meets Biology To Survive
By David De Cremer
The world today is changing all the time. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were reminded that events and...
How Nigeria Can Turn Its Huge Cashew Waste Into Valuable Citric Acid
By Agbaje Lateef and Adekunle O. Adeoye (PhD)
Nigeria – the sixth largest producer of cashew nuts globally – exports more than 80% of its raw cashews...
Esports: How the Struggling Hospitality Industry could Capitalise on this Massive Business
By Jamie Thompson and Babak Taheri
During the pandemic, the sporting world ground to a halt. Global events such as the Olympics, Formula 1 racing,...
Five Ways the Internet Era has Changed British English – New Research
By Vaclav Brezina
The dramatic changes in technology over the past 20 or so years, from the internet to the smartphone and digital assistants like...
Global R&D Effort For Creative Technology Must Be Stepped Up Post-Covid
By Andrew Thompson and Lord Neil Mendoza
The pandemic has highlighted creative industries’ innovative capacity and the extent to which we rely on culture not...
The Metaverse: Three Legal Issues We Need to Address
The “metaverse” seems to be the latest buzzword in tech. In general terms, the metaverse can be viewed as a form of cyberspace. Like...
How AI is Hijacking Art History
People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret.
Or, at the very least, media outlets have come to realize that news of “mysteries...
Jeff Bezos is Looking to Defy Death – This is What We Know About...
By Daniel M. Davis
Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the...
How COVID-19 Transformed Genomics and Changed the Handling of Disease Outbreaks Forever
By Angela Beckett and Samuel Robson
If the pandemic had happened ten years ago, what would it have looked like? Doubtless there would have been...
How to Enjoy a Digital Detox Over Christmas
By Brad McKenna and Wenjie Cai
It is not surprising that many of us have been suffering from digital overload during the pandemic, and taking care of...
Sleeping Longer than 6.5 Hours a Night Associated with Cognitive Decline According to Research...
By Greg Elder
A good night’s sleep is important for many reasons. It helps our body repair itself and function as it should, and is linked to...
Metaverse: Five Things to Know – and What It Could Mean for You
By Steve Benford
In the wake of Facebook rebranding as Meta, reflecting its focus on the “metaverse”, Microsoft has now announced it, too, will launch into this space.
Meta...
Privacy After COVID
By James A. Lewis
The COVID pandemic highlighted privacy. Lockdowns and restrictions on in-person meetings made digital networks an essential tool. This reliance on digital...
Decentralised Finance and UNSDGs – How should regulators respond?
By Dr Iwa Salami
This article looks at what Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is and its potential to facilitate the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development...
The Rise of Dark Web Design: How Sites Manipulate You into Clicking
By Daniel Fitton
The vast majority of websites you visit now greet you with a pop-up. This annoying impediment to your seamless web browsing is...
Veins and Wires: Reflections on UrbanTech Transformation
By Dr Mike Cooray, Dr Rikke Duus and Marius Sylvestersen
What kind of urban environment would you like to live in? In this article, we...
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Infrastructures That Support Artificial Intelligence
By Pascale Lehoux and Lysanne Rivard
During a walking tour of Queensland’s Daintree rainforest in Australia, a talented guide regularly pointed out creatures that were...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
Manage the Human Side of Innovation: Tools to Help Your Team Succeed
By Stefano Mastrogiacomo
For companies to keep pace with the current upheavals, good teamwork and thus the relationships between team members are crucial for team success....
How Cryptocurrency Can Help Non-profits and Investors Thrive in the ‘New Normal’
By Thomas Cauley
A decade ago nonprofit leaders were talking about the ways donors could change the world through social media. Today we’re talking about cryptocurrency.
The...
COVID vaccines: combining AstraZeneca and Pfizer may boost immunity – new study
By Professor Tracy Hussell
Late last year, I asked: is it safe to have more than one type of COVID-19 vaccine? A trial has now addressed that question,...
Ethiopia’s blockchain deal is a watershed moment – for the technology, and for Africa
By Iwa Salami
At the launch of bitcoin in 2009 the size of the potential of the underlying technology, the blockchain, was not fully appreciated.
What has not...
Generation Z: when it comes to behaviour, not all digital natives look alike
By Elodie Gentina and Emma Parry
Gradually over the past few years, the once-ubiquitous discussions about millennials are being replaced by an interest in the...
Found in Translation: Multilingual conferences don’t need to face barriers to communication
If you’ve ever been in the audience for a conference or symposium, it’s likely you introduced yourself to fellow attendees at a break in...
HostZealot Review: Is This Hosting Solution Exactly What You Need?
Are you looking for the best VPS for your web project? Don’t hurry to buy the hosting service from the very first provider. Today,...
Can the UK hit its broadband target?
In an age and society where web access could scarcely be more essential, the need to give everyone adequate broadband coverage only grows stronger.
The...
Good governance is the missing prescription for better digital health care
By Linying Dong
Recently Ontario released its Digital First for Health strategy — aiming to further digitize health care and end the problem of overcrowded hospitals and “hallway...
Elon Musk ― An Inspirational Icon for Generation X Globally
By Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D
This article outlines leadership lessons from Elon Musk. It differentiates between hard and soft leadership. It illustrates with examples of...
Host-world.com Review (2021): Is this Service Good for Your Website?
The presence of your business online is quite important. It is hard to imagine a successful business without a good website. Building your business...
Ethereum: what is it and why has the price gone parabolic?
By Paul J Ennis and Donncha Kavanagh
The price of the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, ether, hit a new all-time high of US$1,440 (£1,050) on January 19....
Decentralised finance calls into question whether the crypto industry can ever be regulated
By Dr Iwa Salami
As stock markets around the world struggle through the pandemic, Bitcoin has seen a steady rise in its price. The...
Make drones sound less annoying by factoring in humans at the design stage
By Dr Antonio J Torija Martinez
These days almost everyone has either flown a drone or listened to the nasty whining sound they produce. Although...
Coronavirus new variant – genomics researcher answers key questions
By Lucy van Dorp
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in...
How Technology Is Rupturing the Minds of Our Younger Generation
By Samantha Kaylee
The Millennials and those belonging from Generation Z have experienced a lifetime on this planet where digital technology was made available to...
3 reasons for information exhaustion – and what to do about it
By Mark Satta
An endless flow of information is coming at us constantly: It might be an article a friend shared on Facebook with a...
COVID-19 vaccines are coming – how will we know they work and are safe?
By Adam Kleczkowski
Pfizer and BioNTech have just released interim results of their COVID-19 vaccine trial. Although it is not the only vaccine in the late stages of...
COVID-19: Changes in Online Dating Business
The world’s pandemic of COVID-19 has changed a lot in the lives of people in the last half a year. A lot of us...
Technology to Fracture Global Trade and Relations
By Graham Vanbergen
The article "Data Overtakes Oil as Leading (Geopolitical) Global Commodity" published three years ago became the subject of much debate and deliberation....
Increased Digitalisation of Services Trade in Today’s Global Economic Paralysis
By Sarita D. Jackson
During the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an increased role of cross-border trade in services through digital technology. The digitalisation of...
On the Symphony of AI and Humans in the Work Context
By David De Cremer
“AI and human employees will form the teams of the future and will have to be led in such ways that...
Inviting Post-graduate Students and Young Professionals to Join the Merck Innovation Cup Summer Camp...
From June 20 - 26, 2020, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will be hosting the 10th Anniversary Innovation Cup Summer Camp (http://innovationcup.merckgroup.com) near Frankfurt, Germany, and we are inviting...
Abstract Submissions Are Now Accepted for Presentation at Curious2020 – Future Insight Conference
Curious2020 – Future Insight Conference – science for a better tomorrow. Abstracts are now accepted for presentation at one of the world’s most renowned...
Know Your History! Why Historical Awareness Makes You a Better Leader
By David De Cremer
The truism that you learn from the past can be applied in almost all aspects of life, even in business so...
Feed the Future of Agriculture with Vertical Farming
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, Khaled Soufani and Lisa Xiong
One big misconception is that produce grown from nontraditional methods is of lesser quality, and...
Duped, Guilty Pleasure, Irony, and Camp: Consuming Fake News
By Roscoe Scarborough
Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with self-proclaimed “bad TV” watchers about their media consumption, this research examines how people consume fake news....
Wikipedia as Illustration of the Truth-Seeking Rationale for Freedom of Expression
By Mark Cenite
Empirical evidence for the truth-seeking rationale for freedom of expression – the assertion that truth prevails in a free marketplace of ideas...
The Rise Of The Imagination Economy
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes and Suning An
The physical constraints of distance and geography shape how we live, work, produce and consume. But advances...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito
Machine meritocracy is here. In this article, the authors elaborate on questions of inclusivity, fairness, and governance....
Emoji: New Language or Trend?
By Marcel Danesi
As societies change and grow, language too, evolves. In this article, the author analyses the rise of the emoji as a means...
Robot Rights and the Emergence of the “Electronic Person”
By Kyle Bowyer
Current laws may soon be inadequate for regulating increasingly sophisticated and intelligent robots. As machines approach and even surpass human physical and...
Right to be Disconnected – The Wave to Catch On
By Jasna Čošabić
This paper analyses the possible influence of the French labour law reform – the “right to be disconnected” – on other countries and the benefits...
Cosmopolitan Conceptions? Biopolitics and Emiratisation in Dubai’s IVF “Reprohub”
By Marcia C. Inhorn
Despite the political tumult in the Arab world, Dubai continues to draw medical tourists from around the globe, including infertile “reprotravellers”...
Why People Trust Sharing Economy Strangers More Than Their Colleagues
By Mareike Möhlmann
Trust is a crucial element in any relationship, not least when financial transactions are taking place. The rise of sharing economy platforms...
Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King
Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media posts,...
The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD – How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading...
By Taylor Ogan and Xiangming Chen
While the world is focusing on if the Chinese government can be a trusted and reliable leader in dealing...
The Strategic Role of Marketing-Related Technology in Politics and What Business can Learn from...
By Bruce Newman
All organizations today need to use a wide array of databases available to learn everything they can about their target audience in...
eColonialism Theory: How Trends are Changing the World
By Thomas L. McPhail
In this information age, new trends and ways of doing things have changed dramatically. From work, to school, to entertainment and...
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social...
By Eric Harwit
Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles in...
The Fairness Challenge of the Internet of Things
By Bang Ngyuen and David De Cremer
The Internet-of-Things essentially enables mass data collection and analysis, to the benefit not just of businesses, but individuals...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 3: Rollercoasters, Burning Ships and the Hero’s Journey
By Christopher Surdak
In part three of the series on The Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak gives some guidance on making friends with risk. Loss,...
Remote Teams: Managing Attitudes, Not Activity
By Drew Gurley
Managing remote teams is tricky. If attitude is the icing, function is the cake. In this article, Drew Gurley discusses why we...
Our Digital Culture Threatened by Loss
By Oliver Grau
Media art is the art form that uses the technologies that fundamentally change our societies, and plays an important role in the...
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons and...
By Jeremy Rifkin
The third Industrial Revolution is on its way. New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things...
