I wanted to share a concept from my upcoming book ‘Future Hackers‘, specifically from the final section called ‘Next Frontier’. In this section, I explore the topic of ‘Robosexuality‘ and discuss what the journey toward normalising marriage between humans and robots might look like, even though it’s several decades away. One of the pressing points […]
Pundits are forecasting that the future of social media sites will increasingly be built around people’s shared interests, values, and lifestyles. And yes, politics. How about AI that enables a communications platform to deepen the relationships with our most treasured people as opposed to maximising the number of people we connect with? Wouldn’t it be […]
Hey there creative friends! I hope you’re all doing well. I know there’s a lot of buzz about AI these days and how it’s going to take our jobs, but I want to share a different perspective with you. Firstly, let’s talk about the film industry. When CGI technology arrived on the scene, it opened […]
Imagine a world where nothing online can be trusted. We’re reaching that dangerous crossroads, fast. Machine-generated content creator tools are at the heart of 2022-3’s zeitgeist, but are sparking intense debate. Some speculate OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT‘ natural language processing tool represents the death of school essays, or will put people from programmers to copywriters out of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fake News, Algo Filtering, Deepfakes… All are symptoms of a much larger problem, ‘The Death of Common Knowledge’. What happens when society disagrees with basic facts? Water boils at 100oC. The moon orbits the earth. There are 365 days in a year. The pandemic has highlighted how polarised society can be on what’s agreed to […]
Leaders must move to a synthesising mindset; which can connect the dots of multiple issues, signposted by multiple sources, instinctively, to form the relationships between them. They will appreciate the complexities of a situation without being blinded by the specifics. There is a component of instinct or gut feel: something entrepreneurs credit hugely, but which […]
It’s worth remembering that modern Psychology is only around 130 years old. Yet spirituality (arguably) has its roots in Neanderthals choosing to bury their dead. We see pioneers at the edge of modern science discover the spiritualists and mystics were always right in their understanding of what it means to be human. Academics such as […]
‘How come time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana?‘ – It’s a fun question used in linguistics, but also as part of some Turing tests to establish if machines exhibit intelligent behaviour. Computer scientists aren’t aligned about when machines could reach human-level intelligence. Some forecast 2030, others, 2100. It’ll only be […]
