future

Machine learning is technology’s new frontier, and designers have a crucial part to play. Josh Clark explores our new roles and responsibilities when we design for the machines.

At his old high school, Brad Frost reminds the kids that their future jobs may not exist yet. Skills, values and personality matter more than vocation.

The iPhone’s arrival 10 years ago catalyzed deep changes that are still playing out today. Here’s a rundown of what happened—and what’s ahead.

Adobe profiled and interviewed Big Medium’s Josh Clark about the opportunities and challenges facing UX designers in a world of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan took a world-weary view of Facebook’s boosterish view new technologies.

In Backchannel, David Weinberger considers the implications of machines constructing their own models for understanding data, quite divorced from our own (more simplistic) models.

Motherboard surveys all the ways farmers are already living in the future. Self-driving tractors have been farming the land for 15 years.

Wired previews a “projection-mapping” device that transforms any room into an augmented reality experience, no screen or goggles required.

Alan Kay describes the principles that made PARC so uniquely imaginative during his tenure there.

The Verge has a long-read profile of Tellart’s immersive imaginings of the future—basically huge-scale usability labs for what might be.

In an interview, Josh Clark previews his keynote for the Delight conference, explaining why magic yields more imaginative interfaces than technological inspiration.

The future is sitting right in front of us in plain view, waiting to be assembled. Do we have the nerve and imagination to piece it together?