Nokia Bell Labs president Marcus Weldon reflects on a year of 5G progress and what he sees for the future of telecommunications. Read More
Listen to the podcast
Click on an episode to listen below or click here to visit all episodes.
Watch the video series
Watch more from the Futurithmic Documentary series with host, Michael Hainsworth:
The Technology
Listen to the first episode of the Futurithmic Podcast, "Augmenting ourselves with Galit Ariel." Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More
Anthropomorphism is an important part of a design, but a design that is too life-like transforms a machine from adorable to menacing. Read More
In this podcast episode, Nokia's Head of Portfolio Strategy Simon Osborne says 5G will require the telecom industry to tear down its silos or risk failure. Read More
Several carriers are driving hard to offer their customers a first taste of 5G. And they're moving faster than standards bodies and chipset makers. Read More
The Human Factor
Sougwen Chung provides insight into how her work with Bell Labs researchers has enriched her artistic experience while she was an artist-in-residence. Read More
Farmers have increasingly warmed to data-driven technology they can use to not only grow more crops but healthier ones as well. Read More
Jimmy Wales doesn’t blame any politician for the state of truth today. They’re a symptom of a bigger problem that includes the business model of news media. Read More
Improving the quality of life and providing greater autonomy for patients poses additional opportunities for human-focused tech in healthcare. Read More
The Economics
There’s a good reason companies are striving to make AI more human: customers respond to it. Today’s consumers also want hyper-personalized experiences. Read More
As digitization transforms business enterprise, organizations are increasingly under pressure to redesign their workflow processes. Read More
The main goals of a pilot are to create a proof point for the business case and to learn how complex the actual project will be. Read More
Emerging technologies have changed the tools that are available to improve manufacturing. Let's look at some use cases enabled by these upgraded tools. Read More
The Politics
Africa is one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world, with ZDNet forecasting an additional 300 million new subscribers by 2025. Read More
For transhumanist thinkers, the development of advanced computational technologies foreshadows a new era in which humans and machines evolve together. Read More
Listen to the first episode of the Futurithmic Podcast, "Augmenting ourselves with Galit Ariel." Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More
Our smartphones are a tool for democracy, even as we fear the privacy invasions that come with a device we have within arms-reach 23 hours of every day. Read More
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson
Follow us on Instagram: