The Future Laboratory

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Food Retail Futures

The future of grocery retail will be values-led, experience-rich and tech-enabled – shifting from mass-market superstores to curated cultural hubs.

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Technology

Stat: AI boosts productivity but fuels job anxiety

A new survey of 81,000 users of AI tool Claude highlights a growing tension at the heart of the AI economy: rising productivity paired with deepening concern about job security.

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Luxury

Foresight Friday: Olivia Houghton, insights and engagement director

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, insights and engagement director Olivia Houghton explores what AI really means for the talent pipeline and why billionaires buying dinosaur bones might require a protection strategy.

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Technology

SXSW 2025: MIT’s vision for the next era of innovation

SXSW has evolved from a music and film festival into a global stage for technology and media innovation. With that transformation, it’s only fitting that one of the world’s leading technology institutes, MIT, took the stage for one of the week’s most prestigious talks: MIT Technology Review’s Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2025.

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Technology

Future Forecast 2025: Technology

Amid accelerating technologies, consumers are exploring divergent paths: from simplified ‘dumb tech’ for digital detox to AI-generated creativity and robotic retail. These trends for 2025 highlight the evolving balance between connectivity, efficiency and mindful technology use.

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Technology

Tesla builds teleoperations team for upcoming robotaxi service

Tesla is currently assembling a teleoperations team as it prepares to launch its robotaxi service.

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Marketing & Branding

Brand Innovation Debrief: Walmart

With eyes on Gen Z consumers, a revived beauty aisle and an e-commerce strategy competing with Amazon, the 60-year-old discount department store group is setting a new standard in retail.