These themed collections include all of our content from our launch in September 2015 through to April 2017—from Afrofuturism to money, identity to space travel, energy to food.
You can also find all of our subject-specific reading lists here.
The Way We Work
Exploring the changing concept of the workplace. Would it really be so outrageous if we designed a world where we worked for four or five hours a day, and then went back to our lives?
Going Places
Profiling solutions to modern transport problems. Without major changes in the way we transport goods and people around the world, humankind is on course for a difficult future.
Together in Public
Exploring how people who share physical and digital spaces connect — or don’t — and searching for ways technology can inspire cooperation rather than conflict.
How We Learn
Schools don’t have a monopoly on education any more. New innovations and technologies are changing how we acquire knowledge at a faster rate than ever.
The Power of Play
Play has the power to save lives in armed conflict, help people care for their mental health, spread awareness of social and environmental issues — and is more important than ever for shaping and responding to world events.
Identity
Looking at our shifting sense of who we are — and places where language and gender, faces and bodies, intersect with technological innovation.
Sartorial
Fashion has been essential to every human society that has managed to get beyond controlling fire. Exploring fashion trends taking us into the future.
Above & Beyond
Once we’ve taken our first steps on the surface of Mars, we’ll need to collectively — as a species — decide how to proceed. Or should we fix Earth first?
Playing the Field
Innovations in sports also leak out into the wider world — and they can end up changing the world, in unexpected and surprising ways.
Vital Signs
We’re fighting against issues like air pollution, population density, infectious disease, and obesity around the world. Are we winning?
Talking with Bots
Questioning whether the technology exists yet for bots to forge meaningful relationships with humans — and, if not, what we should trust them with.
Metropolis
Cities are places that generate innovation more than anywhere else; they’re also spaces where new ideas are felt most intensely, and most quickly.
Made of Money
One pretty good indicator of where home is is the money we spend and how we spend it. What does the future of money mean for our sense of nationhood?
Power Up
Energy is vital to our modern society, and even more so to our future one as well. When we get there, how should we power utopia?
Afrofuturism
There are black people in the future. A series of conversations about Afrofuturism, curated and edited by Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK.
Fast Forward
The sound of each new generation is shaped by accidents and technological limitations. Which tonal errors we be listening to in the future?
The Future of Food
Before we know what we’re going to eat years from now, we need to know (for one thing) whether we’ll be able to grow anything at all on this planet.
Robots vs Animals
Learning to love our robot friends, and exploring what happens when artificial intelligence meets and mingles with the kind created and shaped over millennia by evolutionary forces.
Outside the Bubble
A collection of old round-ups of science, technology, and innovation news.
The Rest of Next
This final section is where you can find some of our features and reports on things that aren’t part of one of our themes or series — from profiles of tech hubs around the world to the battle against light pollution, innovations in refugee camp design to tracking malaria with drones.
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