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Sci-fi has been ahead of the digital game for years, whether writers and directors were predicting the future or the people who eventually created the devices were influenced by the writers is an ongoing debate. In any case, here are 5 digital sci-fi predictions.

As digital publishing continues to grow and monopolise print, why are traditional processes becoming fashionable again?

We've all seen the loop before, maybe even been part of it. After the success of a new technology the preceding tech becomes fashionable again. This is happening right now with typewriters and touch screens.

The Digital Innovation meetup (kindly hosted by Innovation Enterprise) was a causal evening of networking, questions and talks, hosted in Google's tech start-up incubator 'Campus'.

We had a great time meeting a wide range of interesting people, from designers of wearable medical devices to social media gurus.

Social media has undoubtedly brought the world closer together. You probably take it for granted how easy it is to send holiday photos and mundane messages across the world to your long-lost Auntie in Albuquerque…

Indeed, websites like Facebook and Twitter have reshaped the way we find and absorb information and news, with most of us now logging-on to find out what is actually going on in the world, not just in our friendship groups.

The internet has been awash with photographs of a leaked prototype of the iPhone 6. Although the iPhone is by no means the first larger-screened phone on the market, it highlights a trend that will provide exciting challenges for digital publishers...

Whether these pictures are genuine or not, it is no secret that Apple's iPhone screens will be having a growth spurt. About time too: the iphone is lagging behind the screen sizes of its competitors (as pointed out in Samsung's cheeky advert about screen envy- click here to watch).