Bob Cotton has extensive experience as a creative director, artist, designer, film-maker and writer on and about new media. His were some of the earliest overview books on new media to appear in the 1990s (Understanding Hypermedia, Phaidon 1993, The Cyberspace Lexicon Phaidon 1994, Understanding Hypermedia 2.000 1998). Recently he has focussed on Innovation, design, and the role that futurecasting (technology forecasting) plays in the design and innovation process (Futurecasting Digital Media, Pearson/FT.com 2002). He was recently Research Fellow in Digital Media at London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London), where he organised several conferences and exhibitions on new media. He has judged interactive media for both BAFTA and D&AD. Currently he is Visiting Practitioner Professor in Digital Media at University of the West of England, and recently a visiting Senior lecturer in Interactive Media and Film at the Arts University Bournemouth, and Supervisor on the Press Association/University of the Arts, London Knowledge Transfer Partnership. In 2010-2020 he built an online archive of art+media innovations from 1800-2020ish. He is currently building a personal retrospective site: bobcotton.name . He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016. His film ZeitEYE has inspired a new orchestral work by the Spanish composer Pedro Guajardo Torres that was performed December 2018. His IOS app expanding mediainspiratorium for the iPad was completed in beta in 2020, but is no longer asupported. He was recently an associate working with Augmented Solutions Ltd on applications of machine-learning and augmented-reality. He is currently writing and illustrating a number of articles on aspects of media developments and the role that William James idea of our thinking as a 'stream of consciousness' played in the development of early Modernism - these are available as works-in-progress on bobcotton.name.