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ThrowForward Thursday 151: Introducing the TomorrowToday Podcast
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 23, 2024 13:10 - 3 minutesA special bonus edition to introduce our new Podcast to you. Sign up now so you don't miss any of the episodes of The TomorrowToday Podcast. Buhle Dlamini and I are the co-hosts, mapping the future of business for you and your team. Our goal is to show you what it will take to build an organisa...
ThrowForward Thursday 150: Data, data everywhere - Review of Season 4 and inspiration for the future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 16, 2024 09:43 - 14 minutesThis is the final episode of Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday. It's a longer episode today, as we review the most significant theme of the last 40 episodes. This is your reminder that the future isn't just written in data — it's shaped by those who know how to use it. Lead with data, and let i...
ThrowForward Thursday 149: The path to AGI
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 09, 2024 10:22 - 7 minutesCome with me to the future, where we realise that Artificial General Intelligence is not just an improvement on Generative AI but something different, developed on a different path. GenAI / LLMs are brilliant. They're amazing tools, taking the sum of human knowledge (including all the incorrect...
Throwforward Thursday 148: Download data to our brains
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 02, 2024 10:22 - 4 minutesImagine a world where the boring parts of learning - the dumping data into our brains - is all done easily using neural transfers, augmentation and technology assistants. What's left is for the human brain to do what it does best: creative thinking, problem solving, idea generation, and more. ...
ThrowForward Thursday 147: Digital Democracy 2052
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - April 25, 2024 09:05 - 3 minutesImagine the Indian elections in 2052 taking just 5 minutes to process, rather than the 6 weeks it takes this year. The vision is of digital first, ubiquitous, secure, personal technology connections in every sector and industry, reducing friction, demolishing time scales, flattening barriers.
Throwforward Thursday 146: Rocking the afternoon
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - April 18, 2024 08:34 - 3 minutesAgeing musicians still touring, and ageing fans still wanting to go to their concerts, might prefer an afternoon start time rather than waiting until 9pm or later for the main event. It's not just Festivals that should schedule afternoon concerts - maybe every band should do so. The theme ...
ThrowForward Thursday 145: Phytomining (extracting minerals and metals from plants)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - April 11, 2024 09:32 - 3 minutesAll plants extract minerals and nutrients from the soil they're growing in, but some appear to be able to extract metals as well, or at least metal ions that we can in turn extract from the plants. If we can do this at scale, we can use phytomining to get the metals we need to build the batteri...
ThrowForward Thursday 144: Future Experiments in Government
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - April 04, 2024 08:08 - 7 minutesAs we watch elections in 2024 spanning nearly 70 countries and 4.2 billion people, one thing is clear: the current systems are not working. Voters are not happy, and have little enthusiasm for the politicians they can choose between (if they have any real choices at all). So, come with me to th...
ThrowForward Thursday 143: LAMs: Large ACTION Models and the future of smartphones
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 28, 2024 07:34 - 8 minutesChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok and all the other Generative AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with our technology using natural language. Now we need to get our devices to understand the heuristics of requests and actions we ask them to do. Rabbit R1 was launche...
Throwforward Thursday 142: Water Wars
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 21, 2024 07:31 - 3 minutesAs the world gets more and more water stressed, those who control water supplies in rivers, lakes and dams, will exercise more power and restrict access to water to those downstream. This could lead to conflict - legal and physical - that is both internal and crosses national boundaries. ...
ThrowForward Thursday 141: No More Plastic
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 14, 2024 11:01 - 4 minutesWe have to do this! In our lifetimes we have to find a way to end the use of plastic as we use it now, so that we stop adding more toxins and pollution to our planet.
ThrowForward Thursday 140: No More Ships at Sea
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 08, 2024 07:34 - 4 minutesImagine a world in which Rogue Waves made the oceans too dangerous for ships to sail, and we had to stop cruise liners and container ships from sailing. It would change our world as we know it. It is an extreme and alarmist scenario, with one of the worse cases for the impact of climate change ...
ThrowForward Thursday 139: Robot Window Washers
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 29, 2024 21:20 - 4 minutesIt's not a horror movie, with spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings. This is the future of the $40 billion window cleaning industry, using robots. They can do more than clean, though - they do real-time, ongoing analysis of the external skin of the buildings, keeping a re...
ThrowForward Thursday 138: Chatbot sued by owner
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 22, 2024 20:54 - 4 minutesA company is suing its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. I wish I could make up a headline from the future that was better than this - its actually a real story from February 2024 involving Air Canada. The practical lesson is that we need to be careful of automat...
ThrowForward Thursday 137: AI Selected Life-Partner (A Valentine's Day suggestion)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 15, 2024 05:49 - 2 minutesWould you trust an AI-driven algorithm to help choose your life partner? If people were honest about the data they entered into these systems, and genuine in their desire to find a true life-partner match, this would definitely be an improvement on the basically random, luck-based most of us rel...
ThrowForward Thursday 136: Workplace Monitoring
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 08, 2024 15:37 - 5 minutesIn the future, we will use smart devices and even implants to monitor our every move, maybe even our thoughts too. How will we use this data? It could be for Big Brother style management of our lives, or it could be for our benefit and wellbeing. That will be up to us. This is actually not a p...
ThrowForward Thursday 135: Hyper-personalised Peak-performance workplaces
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 01, 2024 16:51 - 5 minutesImagine arriving at the office, and the lighting and aircon are just perfect, there's exactly the right ambient noise, the desk is set up perfectly, the food and drinks easily available are precisely what you need... everything is set up just right to ensure you can deliver your best work. Thi...
ThrowForward Thursday 134: Democracy in the workplace
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - January 25, 2024 18:43 - 7 minutesImagine we voted for the managers of our teams at work. Imagine our workplaces worked like democracies should. Today's episode has a bit of an activist and culture war tone about it, as I suggest that one possible future for corporations is being more democratic. You see, here's the problem: wh...
ThrowForward Thursday 133: Measure and Reward Sleep
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - January 18, 2024 19:15 - 2 minutesCome with me to January 2026, when a major company announces a new reward system for the senior Executives: part of your bonus depends on how well you sleep each night. That's right: we are going to measure your sleep, and reward you if you do it well. The science is pretty clear: sleep is one ...
ThrowForward Thursday 132: The Workplace in 2024
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - January 15, 2024 09:59 - 12 minutesWe decided to publish this edition on Monday, 15 January 2024 - welcome to the first "full on" week of the year and welcome to another year of significant shifts in the world of work. In this video, we look at the ten trends we believe will have the most impact on the workplace and the workforc...
ThrowForward Thursday 131: What to expect in 2024
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - January 04, 2024 15:32 - 7 minutesIn the first episode of ThrowFordward Thursday in the new year, we apply our "Grey Elephants" framework to give you some scenarios for what might happen in the year ahead. The biggest question is not "what might happen", but rather "are you set up to take advantage of the opportunities that unce...
ThrowForward Thursday 130: Review of 2023
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - December 14, 2023 12:55 - 14 minutesThis is our final ThrowForward Thursday for 2023, and I look back at the work I have done with 154 different client engagements. There are five big themes that have emerged during the year, and I am sure will continue into 2024: 1. Generative AI 2. Future Trends - TIDES - Grey Elephants - opp...
ThrowForward Thursday 129: Oil-eating Microbes create Gold Hydrogen
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - December 07, 2023 19:50 - 4 minutesA Texas based company, Cemvita, has proposed using microbes that eat oil and excrete Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide as a solution for both cleaning out oil wells and generating clean energy. This is the final episode of our future energy mini series.
ThrowForward Thursday 127: Ocean and Space Energy
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 24, 2023 14:33 - 3 minutesWe need new ways to generate energy - methods that don't damage and deplete the resources of our planet. In this episode we look at two very interesting ideas: ocean thermal and space farm energy sources.
ThrowForward Thursday Ep 126: EV Batteries
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 16, 2023 13:27 - 5 minutesCome to the future with me, where the current frustrations about the size, range, weight and cost of batteries have all been resolved. And check out a very clever solution for fast recharging that already exists. The future is electric. And it is very smart. This is the start of a few week mini-...
ThrowForward Thursday: Ep 125: Build Bionic Businesses [Teaser Edition]
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 09, 2023 09:12 - 2 minutesIn the past few episodes of ThrowForward Thursday, we've looked at a variety of technology tools that allow you to create digital versions of humans. Today, we look at three ways you can use these technologies in your businesses today (or at least, start experimenting with them in 2024). The f...
ThrowForward Thursday Ep 124: Who Wants to Live Forever?
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 03, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutesNeuroscience is grappling with the issue of consciousness: what is it, where is it located, how does it work? When they discover these answers, it may be possible to transfer your consciousness from your body to something else. Or maybe just a machine that has consciousness. What would happe...
ThrowForward Thursday 123: Digital (Dead) Musicians
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - October 26, 2023 10:46 - 4 minutesAre you keen to see a famous musician from the past live in concert, or to hear new music from them generated by their digital persona? This is now possible - but do we want it?
ThrowForward Thursday 122: Digital Copies of You
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - October 19, 2023 17:41 - 6 minutesWe already have almost all of the technology we need to create a digital replica of you: voice, visuals, and even your thinking, worldview and way of expressing yourself can all be mimicked. Would you want to create a digital replica of someone else? Would you let a digital replica of you be ava...
ThrowForward Thursday Ep 121: Three essential ways to Play Around at work [SAMPLE]
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - October 13, 2023 14:36 - 2 minutesIt's Friday, I know... but this is ThrowForward Thursday's second episode of Season 4 about three ways to experiment at work - or more precisely: three essential categories of experimentation you need to specifically focus on to ensure you maximise innovation, creativity and future focus in your...
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