14/16: Humanoid Robots: 40 years after Terminator, are we getting closer?

14/16: Humanoid Robots: 40 years after Terminator, are we getting closer?

In the film, Sarah Connor says, โ€œ๐™๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™ฉ.โ€ Kyle Reese replies, โ€œ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง 40 ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™จ.โ€ Wellโ€ฆ here we are in 2024. Robots that move like us. Learn like us. Cost less than youโ€™d think. The question isnโ€™t if theyโ€™re coming – itโ€™s how much closer theyโ€™ll get to us. […]

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2050 – Marriage with Robots is Normalised?

2050 – Marriage with Robots is Normalised?

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 […]

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Automation: What’s changing?

Automation: What’s changing?

In recent weeks, I’ve been working to finish a first draft of a second book ‘The Roaring 2020s: How to be Future Ready‘. This week is all about the impact of Automation on work. The corporate world is awash with the AI Zeitgeist ‘Robotic Process Automation‘, most of which you can’t see as it’s about […]

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Getting a grasp on Artificial Intelligence

Getting a grasp on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, commonly referred to as โ€˜AIโ€™ is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. Whilst an increasingly familiar term, its roots lie with Alan Turing. He led the team which famously cracked the โ€˜Enigmaโ€™ code machine used by Nazis during World War 2 to pass secret communications. In 1950, he created what has […]

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The Future of Work – Part 2: Future Skills, AI and Robotics

The Future of Work – Part 2: Future Skills, AI and Robotics

Before exploring the skills weโ€™ll need in the next 10-20 years, itโ€™s helpful to look at a few jobs that didnโ€™t even exist just a decade ago in 2006.ย  We didnโ€™t have โ€˜Social Media Managersโ€™ as the major platforms โ€“ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram โ€“ either didnโ€™t exist or hadnโ€™t broken free of a few college […]

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The Future of Work – Part 1: Employee to Free Agent

The Future of Work – Part 1: Employee to Free Agent

The Future of Work is a multi-faceted subject. One thatโ€™s ripe for multiple books, not just a few short articles. Iโ€™d like to tackle the topic here from just a couple of angles. First, the ways in which people are working. Second, the ways in which automation and robotics will augment and sometimes replace people […]

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Virtual Reality: Enhancing reality, or redefining it completely?

Virtual Reality: Enhancing reality, or redefining it completely?

“This is what virtual reality holds out to us – the possibility of walking into the constructs of the imagination.” – Terence McKenna Most of us love words as they let us conjure up ideas in the imagination. I remember well the telling of campfire horror stories as a Boy Scout. The storyteller had us […]

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