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Big Ideas

Face off

US – QallOut is a new video platform for head-to-head livestream video debates.

QallOut : The Dislocated World : Post-truth Politics

Big Ideas

RCA and CSM Work in Progress Shows 2017

At the Work in Progress shows at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins, design graduates examined post-truth politics, filter bubbles ...

Material Futures MA : The Dislocated World : Royal College Of Art

Big Ideas

Swaying the voters

UK – The new app Sway aims to educate voters about politics through gamification.

Post-truth Politics : Filter Bubble : Transparency

Big Ideas

Surprise me

US – Pack Up + Go is a travel service with a twist: users only know where they are going when they get to the airport.

Pack Up + Go : Revelation Brands : Travel Experience

Trend Tracker

Revelation Brands

Revelation Brands, identified by LS:N Global in 2015, explores how companies are helping consumers to escape the confines of their filter bubbles ...

Revelation Brands : Serendipity : Filter Bubble

News

Searching for answers

London – Socratic Search is a search engine that enables users to explore Google using the principles of the Socratic method.

Revelation Brands : Royal College Of Art : Filter Bubble

News

Preview: Smart Search

Global – Introducing artificial intelligence in retail is enabling brands to create smarter searches.

Artificial Intelligence : Search Engines : E-commerce

Macro Trends

Revelation Brands

The digital revolution promised to save us time, but instead we are busier than ever. It promised to broaden our horizons, but left us trapped in a...

Discovery : Chance : Serendipity

Big Ideas

From the block

New York – Blockfeed is an app that delivers geographically specific news stories straight to users’ phones.

Blockfeed : Local News : Aggregator

Viewpoints

Wai-Cheun Cheung: The next Google

A new search engine explores a world in which serendipity is valued over efficiency.

Google : SEO : Amazon

Big Ideas

New app aims to break through the user's filter bubble

Random, a new app, is designed to provide users with content they wouldn’t normally search for.

Random App : Search Engines : Transmedia Futures

Micro Trends

The Filter Bubble

Brands are streamlining their services based on users’ personal information. Recommendation engine Hunch.com, for example, links to users’ social m...

PIE : Data : Privacy

Macro Trends

Personal Information Economy

Online, there are few places we can hide. From Facebook to Google+, Tesco, Wal-Mart, American Express, Foursquare and Bing, brands are recording ou...

PIE : Data : Commodity