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Tech Forecasts 26: How Agentic AI, Humanoid Bots and Biometrics Will Shape Everyday Life

Posted Monday, January 19, 2026

By Mal Fletcher

 

“Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet,” wrote Douglas Adams. That might change in 2026. 

The year ahead will mark an inflexion point in the relationship between advanced technologies and everyday life. Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, humanoid robotics and perhaps new forms of digital money will move from the margins of policy debate into the centre... Click for more

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Inventing the Future

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

People who invent the future are usually way out of step with the practice and thinking of their present. They are stargazers, like Abraham. They are weather-watchers, like Noah. They are wall-readers, like Daniel; dream-artists, like Joseph; cloud-followers, like Moses; giant-reducers like David. They are Messiah-seers like Peter; Gentile-lovers like Paul and people-restorers like Barnabus. People who would invent the future are crowd-feeding, storm-stilling, demon-evicting, water-walking, cross-bearing, grave-busters like Jesus! Each one of these people -- and most of all the... Click for more

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