Britons Baffled By Incomprehensible Technology
News Initiative Media Futures, a division of London-based Initiative Media, said adults are aware of high-tech advances because of media hoopla, but don't understand what the gadgets have to do with them. Manufacturers need to stop the hype and actually...
[April 2, 2001, 6:18]
E-minister Launches Inquiry Into Impact Of E-commerce
News The Digital Futures inquiry will look at the impact e-commerce could have on the environment, energy use, planning, transport and, of particular interest according to the minister, social exclusion. Digital Futures will attempt to predict the...
[February 2, 2000, 9:49]
RFID Creatively Anticipates The Future For Consumer Food And Retail Marketplace
White Papers In conjunction with Northern Apex RFID and related fielded solutions, the Digital Futures Lab and Research Center, dedicated to investigating and demonstrating new digital technologies has created the "Smart Kitchen".
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Network, Screen And Page: The Future Of Reading In A Digital Age
White Papers The purpose of this report is to weigh and assess a range of technological and social trends that are shaping a variety of possible-but-unknowable futures for printed documents and reading practices. In fact, the road ahead is not as smooth as is...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Resistant Virus Strains To Hit The Net?
News Seeing their futures tied to that simple concept, companies are beefing up their Internet security and policies. But the ExploreZip virus is sort of a digital platypus. It's survival of the fittest in the digital world.
[June 15, 1999, 8:04]
IBM Accused Of Lifting Privacy Language
News The lawsuit comes as the Privacy Futures conference is being held in San Francisco. Sponsored by privacy-seal company Truste and the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the three-day conference centres on corporate data management...
[June 10, 2004, 10:30]
Will Merger Shut Lid On Open Access?
News As media stocks soared and the folks at the newly minted AOL Time Warner toasted their futures, some feared Monday's behemoth merger could have dire consequences for extending cheap, high-speed Internet access to consumers.
[January 11, 2000, 14:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They also do a nice line in fetishes, small objects that contain a spirit with a characteristic personality capable of influencing their owners' futures. Perhaps that's the new digital rights management strategy — Zero Users, No Exchange.
[September 15, 2006, 18:55]
BT's Visions Lack Focus
Leader That's not to say that these futures will not happen, although Pearson is more reticent about the tendency of those who control the technology to deploy it in their own interests rather than that of mankind.
[May 24, 2005, 13:40]
For 2001, Futurists Are Playing Coy
News David Smith, vice president of Technology Futures, has dubbed the next half-century "the age of bio", predicting that biological sciences will be applied to manufacturing, computing, the Internet and elsewhere.
[January 2, 2001, 14:14]
Internet Tops Newspaper Ad Spending
News Adam Smith, futures director at GroupM, which published the report, said search marketing is accounting for a large part of the shift in spending. The new money being invested in advertising this year (expected to be £500m) is mainly going into...
[May 31, 2006, 10:00]
Coming Soon: Exhibitions And Conferences
News IT Futures Forum, Brussels; EMDS International 00-32-2-543 0020, fax 00-32-2-538 6232 Digital Media World Berlin, Mecklermedia's Internet World 97, Berlin, Germany; Ms Brid Harrington 0171-486 1951, fax 0171-487 3480
[March 10, 1997, 9:14]
Donation And Portals Enable Nonprofit Agency To Bridge The Digital Divide For 600,000 Citizens
White Papers The San Diego Futures Foundation faced a daunting challenge: to support the county's e-government goal of connecting citizens with healthcare, jobs, education, and technology. Supported by a Microsoft donation of nearly U.S.million in software, the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls
White Papers The future shape of digital marketing, advertising, user experience, planning and digital agencies in 2012 was explored in this panel debate on 5th December 2007. Bringing together leading experts and practitioners from Agency.com, CIMEX, Agenda 21...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
