(4/14): You can’t be future-proof, but you can be future-ready!

(4/14): You can’t be future-proof, but you can be future-ready!

I had the pleasure of collaborating with the brilliant Maria Franzoni recently, and together, we decided to create a series of concise Zoom interviews discussing key future trends. 🚀 Our fourth topic touches on the idea of becoming future-ready. Future-proofing is all about providing a sense of certainty in an uncertain world. Sure, it’s highly likely that […]

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(3/14): Change is part of the human story, and this is how it always works…

(3/14): Change is part of the human story, and this is how it always works…

I had the pleasure of collaborating with the brilliant Maria Franzoni recently, and together, we decided to create a series of concise Zoom interviews discussing key future trends. 🚀 Our third topic explores THE key skill we all have that enables our capacity for change. The dawn of the AI era is a tale of technological evolution. […]

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PALM-E: A Game-Changer for Robotics and a Threat to Jobs?

PALM-E: A Game-Changer for Robotics and a Threat to Jobs?

Hey there! Exciting news! On Monday, Google unveiled their newest robot, PALM-E! It’s super powerful, equipped with over 562 billion parameters (that’s more than 3 x ChatGPT’s), and it can do things that other robots can’t. PALM-E can learn from sight, speech and the written word to handle real-world scenarios and plan detailed tasks all […]

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THIS WEEK: GPT-4 – The Tool That Will Make You Superhuman!

THIS WEEK: GPT-4 – The Tool That Will Make You Superhuman!

Hey all! Microsoft is set to announce its latest creation this week, the Large Language Model known as GPT-4. This incredible advancement in AI is expected to be a major step forward from what we’ve seen in ChatGPT. Firstly, GPT-4 will not be limited to just text – it’s set to revolutionise the way we […]

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AI, Natural Language and Image Generation – A quick post…

AI, Natural Language and Image Generation – A quick post…

In the course of researching my second book, ‘Future Hackers‘, I’ve been playing with OpenAI’s ‘Dall E‘ image generator. It uses natural language input to create any image it’s instructed to create… Took around 30 seconds to generate these images: The instructions I gave it were ‘Create a brochure for an accountancy software company. Use […]

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New book ‘Future Hackers’ coming – But why?

New book ‘Future Hackers’ coming – But why?

The following text is lifted from the now accepted book proposal to Flint Publishing, a division of the History Press: a) Please write an elevator pitch for your book (in no more than 20 words): Future Hackers is the indispensable guide for curious business leaders to think differently and make informed future-ready choices in a […]

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