Regular columnist and BT futurologist Lesley Gavin takes a look at a variety of issues including the potential development of virtual worlds, androids, biomedicine and much more...
What will our transport look like in the future? Well, anybody who has ever seen the film, The Fifth Element, might conjure up images of city-dwellers zooming around in flying cars that have an amazing ability to stop and start abruptly in mid-air...
Pharmacy super powers, world saving algae and human cloning - just round the corner...
A few years ago, mobility came along and altered the nature of our workspace. Its arrival has meant we are no longer tied to our desks. Just look around our towns and cities...
By 2025, more than a third of the UK's population will be over 55. In fact, the United States is the only country in the industrialised world which has a population that‘s actually getting younger...
Ever since the computer arrived in the home, there has always been a vague perception among the adults of the house that if the children are using it, then they must be playing games...
While everybody seems to be talking about Second Life just at the moment, it's worth remembering that virtual worlds have been around for quite some time...