In a fascinating interview with The Verge, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan shared a bold vision for the future of work: digital avatars, or “digital twins,” that attend Zoom meetings and make decisions for us. This idea isn’t just about saving time; it’s about changing how we work and spend our time. Yuan imagines a future […]
Watching the tech standoff between the US and China, with Huawei often at the centre, opens our eyes to the future of work. This isn’t just some high-flying argument between countries or big companies; it’s a clear sign of what’s coming for our jobs and the skills we need to thrive! Adaptability Is Key Huawei’s […]
As we step into a future shaped by artificial intelligence, we’re beginning to see that our journey is not about competing with this technology but growing with it. AI isn’t here to take over but to help us do more and be more. It’s about improving our creativity, solving problems, and understanding each other – […]
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That might sound far-fetched, but it’s really not. Just yesterday, Chinese e-Commerce giant, Alibaba, released one of the first open-source ‘text to video‘ applications. It’s already sparking a flurry of experimentation. You’ll see from the video that its output is relatively crude and limited to a few seconds. BUT – it’s just the start. Those […]
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 […]
As I continue to develop the ‘Future Hackers’ book, it means finding interesting examples to back up the concepts discussed. In the chapter about ‘Future of Work’, we’re partly looking at critical skills towards 2030. One key skill is ‘Cognitive Flexibility‘ – our capacity to quickly stop one task and move to another or even […]
‘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 […]
I’ve spent a fair amount of time this week developing new writing and ideas for the forthcoming ‘Roaring 2020’s’ book mentioned here a short while ago. As I dig further into technological shifts and the resulting social changes, it’s more apparent than ever that the work of Piers Thurston and other ‘Inside-Out’ practitioners is essential […]
