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ThrowForward Thursday 91: The Robots Are Coming Applications and Thinking Like a Futurist
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 02, 2023 15:47 - 15 minutesHow should we think about and respond to new technologies and societal changes as they arrive in our world? They never arrive perfectly formed. They disrupt the world we know. But some of them will stick around and change that world, and we need to get better at engaging with them as they do so....
ThrowForward Thursday 90: Aaarrrghhh, The Robots Are Coming
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 25, 2023 06:05 - 4 minutesA common theme as people react to many technology advances is fear. Our instinct as humans is to be afraid of what we don’t know, and our brains are programmed to see something unexpected as a threat before it can process the opportunity. This is how many people see a world filled with robots...
ThrowForward Thursday 89: Smart Sleep Part 2 - applying the scenario to your business
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 16, 2023 11:34 - 10 minutesIn Season 3 of ThrowForward Thursday, we will be helping you to apply our mini future scenarios. Every second week, we'll introduce a new idea from the future, as we normally do. The week after, we will revisit the scenario, extracting the principles and helping you see how to apply it to your i...
ThrowForward Thursday 88: Smart Sleep
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - February 09, 2023 19:56 - 6 minutesTechnologies that not only track our sleep patterns, but can also proactively manage our sleep environments could revolutionise the way we sleep, and help us to improve this vital aspect of our health and wellbeing. From smart pillows that adjust to stop us snoring, to sensors that adjust lig...
Throwforward Thursday 87: Develop Your Strategic Imagination
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - January 20, 2023 15:50 - 6 minutesEvery week for the last year and a half our team has produced a short video that highlights a future trend or disruptive force that could change the world. The invitation to you and your team is to watch this video and imagine how it might impact your industry, your market and bring threats and ...
Throwforward Thursday 86: Smart Bandages and Preventative Healthcare - examples of smart tech about to change our whole world
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - January 16, 2023 08:47 - 3 minutesApologies for the delay in posting this video meant for 12 Jan 2023. I've actually been in hospital myself, and my team was on holiday until today. This was pre-recorded, but the content strangely appropriate as we consider how to proactively and preventatively take care of ourselves. We don'...
Throwforward Thursday 85: Giving Lonely People The Choice to Chat
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - January 05, 2023 09:45 - 2 minutesIn 2021, a Dutch supermarket chain, Jumbo, created a special checkout line - it was designed to be slower and give people the opportunity to chat to each other and the cashier. It has received rave reviews, and Jumbo is now rolling it out to all their stores. Part of the reason for this is that ...
Throwforward Thursday 84: Food in the future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - December 30, 2022 09:25 - 2 minutesAs we spend this last week of December battling to remember what day of the week it is, and finally finishing off the leftovers from our Christmas meal, here's a quick thought about food in the future. We will definitely be able to get more and more nutrients from pills, smart medicine and ar...
Throwforward Thursday 83: Smart glasses for driving and biometric feedback
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - December 22, 2022 08:15 - 2 minutesWe know that smart glasses, which include VR, AR and XR functionality and heads up displays are coming. But what if those glasses could also look back at us, and especially assess our physical and emotional state using biometric feedback from our eyes?
Throwforward Thursday 82: Energy (tomorrow and today)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - December 15, 2022 17:47 - 3 minutesWe've talked about alternative and green energy solutions before on Throwforward Thursday (episode 6 - https://youtu.be/rI76SEIT2Ms and episode 24 - https://youtu.be/3nck4-WLYHo). Today, we look not at the future but at something that happened last week as we got proof that nuclear fusion is pos...
Throwforward Thursday 81: Overnight 3D Print Shops
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - December 12, 2022 14:29 - 4 minutesApologies for the late posting of this episode of our weekly series into future trends. Today we imagine that we might have dedicated 3D print shops, or maybe 3D printers in local building supplies stores, that will be able to print out any 3D design for you overnight. A few decades from now ...
ThrowForward Thursday 80: The End of Prisons
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - December 04, 2022 11:14 - 5 minutesThis week we imagine a future where restorative justice and rehabilitation takes precedence over retribution and the prison-industrial complex. It's a dream, that doesn't imagine no criminals (we wish), but rather a different way of dealing with them. Here are some additional resources to go wit...
Throwforward Thursday 79: Smart Homes for Seniors
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 24, 2022 12:12 - 5 minutesSometime very soon, we need to change our view of what "old age" looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older people will be happy living in. The simple version is that we need tech-enabled smart homes for seniors.
Throwforward Thursday 78: Grandparents of the Future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 17, 2022 15:01 - 5 minutesImagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they're healthier and living longer), where they get grandparent leave from their companies, and where we combine child and senior care in the same facilities. This is a wonderful vision of a future where society...
Throwforward Thursday 77: DNA Data Storage
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 12, 2022 12:35 - 4 minutesThrowforward Thursday 77: DNA Data Storage Every day, humans produce 2.4 quintillion bytes of data, and this doubles every two years or so at the moment. Most of this is now stored in "the cloud", which might be invisible to us, but is actually in massive data warehouses all around the world....
Throwforward Thursday 76: Communicating with Animals (and anyone in any language)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - November 06, 2022 09:07 - 4 minutesImagine using the technologies we are currently developing to help us with voice recognition and real-time translation to be able to understand what animals are saying, and even talking to them in their own languages? This is a very real possibility by the 2040s. What a world that would be. ...
Throwforward Thursday 75: The future of live sport on TV
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - October 27, 2022 13:37 - 3 minutesThe BEST way to watch the World Cup About the only reason to pay for a premium TV subscription these days is live sport. If you're fan, you'll know the value of live sporting events. But come with me to the future - hopefully not too many years away - when live sports include a variety of imm...
ThrowForward Thursday 74: Where to look to see the future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - October 13, 2022 14:52 - 11 minutesIn last week's episode (https://youtu.be/1pk5KmeDDP0) I shared our TIDES Model of Disruptive Change as a tool you can use to know WHAT to look for when you're looking at future trends. This week, we talk about WHERE you can look for evidence, examples and glimpses of the future. It's all abou...
ThrowForward Thursday 73: Where we get our ideas (The TIDES Model of Disruptive Change)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - October 10, 2022 07:27 - 15 minutesSlightly late this week, this is a special edition of ThrowForward Thursday, answering a question sent to us: "Where do you get all your ideas?" This episode I talk about our team's TIDES model of disruptive change, that helps us decide what to look for. These are the five most disruptive for...
Throwforward Thursday 72: The end of frogs
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 29, 2022 11:53 - 3 minutesOur story starts 20 years, as a fungal infection wiped out the world's frogs. It continues today as we see a resurgence in malaria and other tropical diseases because the frogs are not eating insects. And we realise that this is an all-too-familiar story of how our actions are damaging fragile e...
Throwforward Thursday 71: The End of Water (and three possible solutions)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 23, 2022 07:05 - 5 minutesVIDEO: Throwforward Thursday 71: The End of Water (and three possible solutions) We all know that the world has a huge problem with water. We don't have enough of it in the places we need it. There are at least three solutions that could change this, and could be available by the middle of...
Throwforward Thursday 70: The end of emails
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 15, 2022 14:17 - 4 minutesI don't know how far into the future we need to go before we find the end of emails, but in my opinion it can't come soon enough. Emails need to go the same way as faxes, telegrams and telexes. It won't happen with one single replacement solution, but rather with multiple different apps and opti...
Throwforward Thursday 69: The end of sex
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 08, 2022 20:47 - 6 minutesMore people - especially young people - around the world are choosing not to get married, not to have long-term relationships, not to have children, and to have less sex. No, it's not the time of free "drug, sex and rock 'n' roll" anymore. We are not predicting the actual "end of sex", but po...
Easy Future Conversation 8: How we can improve investing in the future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 05, 2022 15:32 - 12 minutesThis is the final part of my conversation with Easy Equities' Carel Nolte, and we finish our series with a chat about what we can do to improve investing in the next few years. Carel really knows his stuff, and the insights generated from over a million users at Easy Equities means they're proba...
Throwforward Thursday 68: The end of sand
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 01, 2022 06:20 - 4 minutesWe use sand for pretty much everything we can see around us - including the glass in the screen you're watching this on. And we are running out of sand. This is a bigger issue than you probably realise, and about as important as running out of water will be for our way of life. More reading a...
Bonus: Easy Future Conversations 7: What can go wrong
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 29, 2022 13:28 - 6 minutesWe are all caught up now... Carel Nolte of Easy Equities and myself, Graeme Codrington, continue our conversations about the future of investing - and wine - by talking about what can go wrong. We touch on the problems of unrealistic returns, overblown promises, day trading, lack of resear...
Bonus: Easy Future Conversations 6: Offshore investing
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 29, 2022 10:19 - 7 minutesCarel Nolte and I continue our conversations about the future of investing, with some interesting ways to diversify your portfolio by investing "offshore". It's not always what you think (for example, most of the Top Ten stocks on the Johannesburg Stock exchange make almost all their income "off...
Bonus: Easy Future Conversations 5: The wine you like, the apps you use and where we get our ideas
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 29, 2022 08:54 - 7 minutesApologies for the delay in releasing these Easy Future Conversations to the podcast. Here are a few bonus episodes to catch up with the YouTube feed. We are half way through the conversations I had with my friend, Carel Nolte, about the future of investing, what he's learnt from his work at ...
Throwforward Thursday 67: The end of Hotel Room Service (and a few things your company offers...)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 25, 2022 09:12 - 4 minutesNow that we can get food delivered to us from any restaurant to anywhere, we don't have to rely on the room service offered to us by the hotel we're staying in. OK... this isn't really a "future prediction" as it is a potential reality already. This week's "lesson from the future" is less abo...
Throwforward Thursday 66: The end of Antibiotics
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 18, 2022 17:25 - 4 minutesAntibiotics changed our world 100 years ago, probably adding about 20 years to average lifespans as we dealt with infections and disease. But bacteria are continuing to adapt and are fast outpacing our antibiotics. It is very likely that by 2050 our current antibiotics will be useless, and that ...
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