Tech Foresight

Richard Watson, Founder/Editor 'What's Next' and author, reflects on Imperial's conference TF2033, and explains: why should universities foresight? For more information please visit

Dr Aldo Faisal is a neuroscientist seeking to decode how our brains generate behaviour from our intentions. His research has led to the creation of many neurotechnologies, including brain-machine-interfaces that utilise eye tracking, which could lead to a new generation of technologies -- including, one day, cognitive prosthetics. For more information please visit

Dr. Finn Giuliani explores how new understanding of material properties at a tiny scale could lead to a radical transformation in the way we make use of their mechanical properties for architecture, aviation and other industries. for more information please visit

Professor Eric Yeatman of Imperial College looks ahead 20 years to how micro technologies and can increase the intelligence of systems in digital economies. For more information please visit

Dr Michelle Moram of Imperial College London explains what might be possible with the development of a periodic hyper table - and asks us to imagine what materials we could design, with exactly the properties we desire. To find out more about Michelle and what she does, please visit

Dr Travis Bayer of Imperial College London asks us to think about life as a programmable machine. To find out more about Travis and what he does please visit

Dr Greg Offer of Imperial College London shares his views on what the future of transport might look like - and how that will change societies across the world. To find out more about Greg and what he does at Imperial please visit

Emil Lupu builds computer systems that can be continuously adapted to their environment and changes in how they are used. In his outlook for big data, Emil sees a world in which humans and machines collaborate to make sense of the huge amounts of unstructured data we are starting to gather from sensors. For more information please visit

With thanks to the London Euphonia Orchestra ( Professor John de Mello of Imperial College London imagines a world in which we might discover the origins of life in a flow reactor. For more information, please visit

Professor Julie McCann takes her inspiration from nature for writing algorithms that allow distributed wireless networks to become self-organising, adaptive and intelligent. Julie's technologies already find a home in monitoring water networks and to monitor pollution in cities. Looking ahead, sensors the size of dust will supersede today's cloud-based processing -- computing intelligence will move out on the edge. For more information please visit