Technology: in this section we explore important developments shaping the future of technology and how these are influencing people and their consumption.
Data Snapshot
% of respondents that totally agree "I couldn't get by without my cell phone/smart phone"
Source: US Yankelovich MONITOR 2012
You're invited to a Trends Party
US MONITOR LIVE
7 Signals from the edge to watch in 2013
26 February 2013
Trend & Tonic contributors invite you to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Trend & Tonic as they walk us through the now and next of all seven trends at this Futures Company house party.
The New Center of the Connected World
MONITOR Minute
The key takeaway from the Consumer Electronics Show
23 January 2013
The mobile device has displaced the TV as the core device in consumers’ technology lifestyle—with wide-reaching consequences for content creators and marketers.
Festive ‘retail-by-rail’ for the gadget-hungry traveler
Trend & Tonic
Our trends & culture blog
7 January 2013
Forgotten to buy your Dad that iPad? If, heaven forbid, you happen to forget that gadget gift on your way to your festive destination, do not fear.
Engaging Consumers in a Big Data Futures
Year-End LIVE
From Consumers at Arm's Length to Arm's Reach
17 December 2012
Did you miss the Year-End LIVE? Click here to view the replay.
Dancing is the new dollar
From Trend & Tonic
Our trends and culture blog
10 October 2012
Have you ever wondered, “What if Dance-Dance-Revolution and a vending machine had a baby?” I know I have.
A Hoover for the oceans’ garbage
Trend & Tonic
Our trends & culture blog
27 August 2012
The image of the floating continent of garbage in the middle of the Pacific has become something of a poster-child for the environmental consequences of consumer culture, with millions of tones of plastic held in a five hundred mile vortex either side of Hawaii.
Stages of digital grief
The Futures Blog
Future facing thoughts on the marketplace
27 August 2012
I went to a talk on the future of publishing recently by Julius Wiedemann, the Design Editor at the art book publisher Taschen, at the Design Museum round the corner from our London office.