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Patrick Noack

Patrick Noack

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Dr Patrick Noack is executive director of future, foresight and imagination at the Dubai Future Foundation. He has been active in the scenarios and foresight space for the past 20 years, in government, the United Nations and private sector. His work has taken him across five continents to explore technical topics of diseases up to broader issues of climate change and migration. Technology foresight and innovation have been central to some of his appointments, including within the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
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NFTs are shaking up the digital art industry. Reuters
The case against NFTs

The rise of things to own in the digital world marks a new age of status anxiety. Do you still want to play?

CommentOctober 07, 2021
Patrick Noack
The JET vacuum vessel near Oxford, UK. It holds the record for the amount of fusion power generated: 16 megawatts for just two seconds. Chris Roux / EUROfusion
Does a future exist with nuclear fusion?

Yes, the science is very hard, the engineering nigh impossible, but the rewards are potentially enormous

CommentSeptember 16, 2021
Patrick Noack
Representations of cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Reuters
The terrifying weightlessness of $600 million in stolen cryptocurrency

The Poly Network heist is a powerful reminder of how much crime has changed - and our collective need to act

CommentAugust 12, 2021
Patrick Noack
Carbon emissions are a growing liability for the world's ecosystems. AFP
Why your personal carbon footprint might be worth money someday

A marketplace for carbon consumption may finally address consumer behaviour

CommentJuly 09, 2021
Patrick Noack
Our modern lives have inadvertently accelerated a threat to the health of our children. Getty Images
What I learned from predicting trends early in the pandemic

The pandemic seemed to catalyse new directions for good but in some cases it might be more like a pendulum

CommentMay 09, 2021
Patrick Noack
It's hard to predict whether new technologies could end up posing a risk to the planet. Reuters
Animate materials will solve problems, but will they kill us first?

The technology could produce a raft of new and potentially terrifying consequences

CommentApril 11, 2021
Patrick Noack
Representations of bitcoin and US dollar banknotes. bitcoin is digital money, similar to any other currency, though more transferable and outside of the control of banking systems and governments. Reuters
The danger of mining wealth from thin air

The cryptocurrency is showing the warning signs of a weaponised asset

CommentMarch 23, 2021
Patrick Noack
The horse in mid-air represents a step, a change in position, towards the end state of crossing the finish line. Getty Images
Individuals must shape their post-Covid lives

It is important to decide the future we want after the pandemic, even if things seem out of control

CommentFebruary 23, 2021
Patrick Noack
Commercial lawyers will soon have to start brushing up on space law. AFP
See you in space court: why we need a legal jurisdiction in the stars

The law needs to evolve as more and more companies operate beyond earth's atmosphere

CommentFebruary 09, 2021
Patrick Noack
AI could predict a traveller's moods in the future. A South Carolina airport on March 1, 2020 in Columbia, South Carolina. Getty
How airports of the future can prioritise passenger comfort

The low-hanging fruit could be an app to aid travellers

OpinionJanuary 11, 2021
Patrick Noack
The Dubai skyline. AP
What if you could move cities as easily as ordering food online?

Digital nomads will benefit from a future that offers a 'city-as-a-service'

CommentDecember 06, 2020
Patrick Noack
Viruses are used to make vaccines, but they are useful for so much more. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)/Andrey Rudakov/Handout via Reuters
When viruses are good

Although Sars-CoV-2 is our enemy, other viruses will be our allies

CommentNovember 04, 2020
Patrick Noack
A Tesla Inc Model S electric taxi vehicle charges at a Supercharger station in Sant Cugat, Spain, last year. Bloomberg
Your electric car isn't as green as you think, but soon it will be

Dubai's Future Councils are thinking of ways to tackle environmental and labour issues within the growing EV market

CommentOctober 13, 2020
Patrick Noack
People have been urged to check if a company is genuine on social media and government websites. Bloomberg
Now is the time to design our 'new normal'

In periods of major uncertainty, do you really want to wait around for an unpredictable reality to emerge?

OpinionSeptember 07, 2020
Patrick Noack
The boundaries between our brains and the machines they created are fading. Getty
The Fifth Industrial Revolution: where mind meets machine

We are fast approaching a point where technology will – literally – be a state of mind, but are we ready?

CommentSeptember 06, 2020
Patrick Noack

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