Which insights into our digital (and post-digital) future did the NEXT Conference community find most compelling in 2025?

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Agent experience is the next evolution in web design. From brand-to-bot interactions to the agent-first future: what comes ...

Agentic AI, by its very nature, acts on its own. How can we harness it in a brand safe way – and without harming our future ...

We’re witnessing a change of power. The Big Tech oligarchy is finally taking over. Democracy will look different after the fact. Not that there hadn’t been disinformation and propaganda before. But ...

While Star Trek gave us the illusion of talking computers that provide accurate answers, today’s LLMs are guessing machines that generate responses based on probability rather than factual accuracy.

Amazon has pioneered a dual strategy of both horizontal and vertical integration. The next Amazon will need a different approach. Let’s have a look at my definition of horizontal and vertical ...

What is a ludic loop and what does it have to do with digital experience design? The first part of that question is easier to answer: It’s that circle of doing the same thing again and again because ...

The most exciting themes in technology today are transformative visions for 2025 or 2030: crypto, web3, VR, metaverse… and then everything else. Meanwhile, hundreds of start-ups take ideas from the ...

The media industry has been trapped in digital disruption for two decades. AI is only going to accelerate that change. Buckle up. The New York-based company joins several digital media companies in ...