With social media opening up million of little windows into the lives of others, reality TV expanding into new frontiers like space travel, and people growing savvier about what's real and what's not – what does the future of reality culture hold?

With Virgin Galactic readying its engines for take-off and global brands like Google and Unilever powering a new space race, businesses are taking customers to the final frontier by evoking a basic human emotion: 'awe'.

True Stories is about the consumer desire for brands that demonstrate transparent behaviour with personality, and communicate this honestly – warts and all – across all platforms and touchpoints.

The first kick of the Brazil 2014 World Cup promises to be unlike any seen before. It’ll be taken by a paraplegic volunteer in a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton, in the first public demonstration of technology that hopes to make wheelchairs a thing of the past.