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Graeme Codrington

Don't just rebuild; re-imagine. The 2020s will be the most disruptive decade we've ever experienced - Covid is just the start. Futurist, Graeme Codrington, will guide you through everything you need to thrive in times of constant change.

Here's something that should make you look at your smartphone differently.

It might help save your life in an earthquake.

Not because it can predict the future. But because the tiny accelerometer inside your phone can detect movement. The same technology that notices if someone has fallen can also spot the first micro-tremors of an earthquake.

Same phone. Same pocket. Different purpose.

That's what this week's Tour Guide to the Future is all about: why the best technology is not the cleverest technology, but the technology that gives us real-world benefits when it matters most.

QUESTION: What would be the best use of technology to improve your life right now?

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Here's something that should make you look at your smartphone differently.

It might help save your life in an earthquake.

Not because it can predict the future. But because the tiny accelerometer inside your phone can detect movement. The same technology that notices if someone has fallen can also spot the first micro-tremors of an earthquake.

Same phone. Same pocket. Different purpose.

That's what this week's Tour Guide to the Future is all about: why the best technology is not the cleverest technology, but the technology that gives us real-world benefits when it matters most.

QUESTION: What would be the best use of technology to improve your life right now?

Book Graeme to speak: https://graemecodrington.com/speaking/

🔔 SUBSCRIBE for weekly ThrowForward Thursday episodes - every week, a look at the future of work, technology, and leadership.

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🌐 Website: https://www.graemecodrington.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemecodrington

Here's something that should make you think twice before asking ChatGPT about that headache.

Oxford University ran a study earlier this year. They gave the same medical scenarios to AI chatbots, twice. First with 100 doctors at the keyboard. Then with 1,300 ordinary people.

The doctors got 95% accuracy. The ordinary people got 34%.

Same AI. Same scenarios. Different humans. Why the gap? And what does it tell us about how the rest of us should be using AI at work?

That's what this week's ThrowForward Thursday is all about. I get into the Dunning-Kruger problem with large language models, and why AI in the hands of a non-expert can be a liability rather than a tool.

I also introduce the 5T AI Impact Model, our team at TomorrowToday Global uses to help organisations get past the productivity hype and into the workflow redesign where AI starts to pay for itself.

More details about the 5T AI Impact Masterclass: https://graemecodrington.com/the-5t-ai-impact-masterclass/

And the links to the research:

⁠https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyepyy82kxo
⁠https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/new-study-warns-of-risks-in-ai-chatbots-giving-medical-advice/

Meta lost $80 billion on the Metaverse. We called it in 2022. Here's why the same mistake is happening again - right now.

In this week's ThrowForward Thursday, I revisit our April 2022 episode on the Metaverse hype cycle and what it teaches us about separating real technological change from expensive noise. With AI, spatial computing, and the "next big platform" dominating headlines, the ability to distinguish signal from hype is the most valuable skill a leader can have.

What you'll learn:

Why the Metaverse failed - and what the warning signs actually were - How to identify genuine technological disruption vs. hype-driven investment - The thinking framework futurists use to stress-test tech trends - What today's equivalent of the Metaverse might be

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What do you think is today's Metaverse?

In the 1980s and 90s, people smoked in restaurants while the rest of us were eating. Then we made a change. We literally changed a global culture, made new rules, and people (fairly) quickly changed their habits. We could do that again in public spaces - banning phones. Why not?

I think I know why Donald Trump wants Greenland. But why does everyone else see it as strategically important? It's not what you think. But it will change the world. Listen to this week's episode to find out more.

If robots can be developed to run ultra trail marathons and compete in sporting events, then why should humans even bother anymore?

Maybe it's less about being better than someone else, and more about finding out where one's own limits are. Maybe that's the essence of being human.

In this episode of ThrowForward Thursday we ask how advanced humanoid robots are rewiring not just our view of automation and technology, but also our view of ourselves.

Also, as a bonus... keep an eye on my progress towards running one of the world's toughest trail marathons, the Otter Challenge in October 2026.

Faster, higher, stronger - the Olympic motto that inspires the best athletes to push themselves to the limit. But what if we changed where those limits are? What if we allowed humans to not just rely on good genetics and intensive training, but also on chemical, medical and biomechanical enhancements? The team at The Enhanced Games are aiming to answer this question in a few weeks time in Las Vegas - see http://www.enhanced.com for details. Is this the future of sport? Or are we crossing a line we should not cross?

Maybe a more important question is what sorts of human enhancements might be valuable and useful in your life and work? And are there any legal and ethical limits you should be considering?

Our team at TomorrowToday have developed my digital twin: a ChatGPT agent that contains all of our books, white papers, blogs and videos from the last twenty years of work. You can now access this GPT agent for free (as long as you have a ChatGPT account), and ask questions about the future, thinking like a futurist, foresight, leadership, and innovation. It's available at http://www.graemecodrington.com/askGraeme

And if you and your team are impressed by what a GenAI version of my past work can do, then contact the real, human me and set up a time to chat about how our team can really add value to your work in the future.

In Season 6 of ThrowForward Thursday, we are revisiting some of our previous predictions and finding out what's happening in the world right now. This one is scary.

In Episode 66 (see https://youtu.be/V-b-U2Zf4V4 ) we talked about the end of antibiotics. Just this past month, in October 2025, the World Health Organization released a research report on antibiotic and AMR resistance, and it's getting worse and worse (see: https://www.who.int/news/item/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resistance-to-common-antibiotics-worldwide ).

We need to urgently use fewer antibiotics, giving science a chance to keep up with the mutations of the diseases we are fighting. We need to think not just about "quick fixes" for our own illnesses, but more societally and systemically about healthcare.

Sport can't fight weather The 2025 edition of the Cape Town Marathon was cancelled due to strong winds making the course unsafe. It's not the first major sporting event to be affected by weather; and it won't be the last. Back in 2020, I was due to run the London Marathon. It was cancelled due to Covid, and we were encouraged to run a 42.2km distance in the 24 hours of the day of the marathon to earn our finisher's medal. I did that in the Covid-emptied streets of Johannesburg. We've talked about this before in ThrowForward Thursday:

Ep 11: Climate change am-dram moment - https://youtu.be/J6QurefheZo
Ep 42: Olympics and climate change - https://youtu.be/pgl9UMFPcd4

Organisers of major sporting events will need to plan for weather related disruptions - not as Plan B or C, but as an expected Plan A. This is what our team at TomorrowToday calls an 'Elephant in the Boardroom' - a known, high impact issue that people are not yet taking seriously enough. The cancellation of a major marathon, impacting tens of thousands of people, is a reminder that this is our new normal.

What if the truth could be edited? In a world of AI deepfakes, fake news, and manipulated media, how do we know what's real anymore? Blend science fiction and foresight in this mind-bending episode of ThrowForward Thursday, inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Douglas Adams' classic story predicted today's world - crowdsourced "truths," social networks, and reality distortion fields long before they existed.

In this episode, Graeme unpacks what The Hitchhiker's Guide can teach us about:

- AI-generated misinformation and deepfakes
- The manipulation of truth in media and politics
- Why scepticism and curiosity are leadership superpowers
- How to lead with clarity when facts are contested

If you're a leader, educator, or curious thinker trying to make sense of our post-truth world, this one's for you.

What You'll Learn

- How Douglas Adams foresaw our information-saturated future
- The connection between AI, social media, and "reality distortion fields"
- Ways to stay sceptical without losing trust or hope
- How to build credibility and clarity in confusing times
- Why humour, humility, and courage matter in leadership today

Connect with Graeme Codrington: Website: www.graemecodrington.com Email: graeme@tomorrowtodayglobal.com LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/graemecodrington Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/graemecodrington Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/graeme.codrington TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@graemecodrington

Watch more ThrowForward Thursday episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH4yciXjrr9qKpj_vNxr5kHW79jLI7rXF&si=kZJP-jOURAFjWrhN

Listen to the Elephants in the Boardroom podcast here: https://www.tomorrowtoday.consulting/podcast

Book Graeme - Looking for a keynote or workshop that helps your leaders thrive in disruption? email: graeme@tomorrrowtodayglobal.com

In a world filled with AI slop, fake news, photoshopped photos and AI generated videos, how do we work out what is true, what is real, and what is not? In this week's ThrowForward Thursday episode, we look at six ways we can respond to a post-truth world.

Deep fakes have been around for a while - in fact, way back in 2020, I was one of the first people I knew to feature in a deep fake video (it wasn't very good, but it was a sign of things to come). The era of fake videos has arrived much faster than we thought we would. It's here, right now. We need to learn how to navigate a world in which we cannot trust what we hear, read or see. It's sad, but it's the reality (or is it real at all?). This week, we revisit some of our predictions about the future of deep fakes and fake news and show you what's happening right now. Watch these three episodes from our archives:

Episode 4: Deep Fakes: https://youtu.be/vs8SAdD1KXs
Episode 94: AI generated news: https://youtu.be/W0TGnyB5EgE
Episode 122: Digital copies of ourselves: https://youtu.be/6ITWYpC4Fho

Join us next week to find out six things we can do about it, and how we can live successfully in a post-truth world.

Welcome to the new season of ThrowForward Thursday. Each week, we will be looking back over the 175 episodes we've recorded in the last four years, and seeing which of our future predictions are starting to come true - what we got right, and wrong, and what it tells us about the world we live in today. Join us every Thursday for a Tour Guide to the Future.

Imagine... the future is imaginable. And our imaginations help to set the tone for how we engage with the future, and the world around us.

So, at the end of 2024, let's imagine the best possible future we can - whatever that might mean for you. For me, it would be a world without war. Thank you for your support and feedback on our scenarios over the past year.

We plan to come back in the new year with a whole new format for these scenarios - we are excited to share that with you. But first... take a break. Have a refreshing and rejuvenating holiday, and we will see you in 2025.

On December 4, 2024, the CEO of one of America's largest healthcare insurers was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan. Angry people, living in a world that is filled with inequality and feeling squeezed on every side, will eventually snap. This is not something we want, nor is it a call to arms. But it is a possible future scenario that CEOs of large companies might need to be as careful of their personal security as many politicians currently are.

The antidote is to build future-proof businesses that see doing good as good for business. This isn't just a cute tagline - it is a core pillar of the DNA of a future-proof business.

Our team at TomorrowToday helps organisations to understand what a future-proof DNA looks like, and to identify the drivers of disruptive change taking us into that future. Contact us to discover more about our work: http://www.tomorrowtoday.consulting

It could happen. Sometime in the future. Data centres use an incredible amount of electricity and water. Towns that incentivise these data centres to locate nearby for jobs and tax benefits might find themselves dealing with unrealistic demands for power and water - to the point where a data centre could sue the town to continue providing them with water even if it means the people living in the town get cut off.

For more details of just how much power and water data centres use, listen to Paris Marx’s 4 part mini series on the Tech Won’t Save Us Podcast: https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1

Nearly 100 years, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 we would all be working just 15 hours a week. If only, right?

What went wrong? There is an answer, but you're probably not going to like it. We need to change the whole system to ensure we are not crushed by a system that seeks relentless productivity, endless activity and soul sucking workloads.

Maybe the 15 hour work week is an idealistic fantasy. Or maybe it's a motivating goal to drive a change in our current world of work?

Elections are messy, noisy and can overwhelm voters with too much information and too many choices. In the future, it could make sense for us to rely on our personal AI assistants - algorithms trained on our preferences, understanding our worldviews and able to mimic who we are in communications and interactions - to analyse every politician, their promises, their track record and what we expect them to be able to achieve, and advise us on the best person to vote for in any given election. It’s a great application of the power of data analytics and pattern recognition that GenAI apps are capable of, and it would probably help voters make more informed choices… rather than voting based on charisma, fears or history. #election2024 #election2050 #future

Don't get too excited by the title - it's not quite what you think. In the future, it is possible that companies will not supply us with email addresses, but we will rather bring our own (just like we buy our own cars, phones and have your own personal cellphone numbers these days).

This is more than a technology conversation - this is about fractional workers (senior people working for more than one company at the same time) and top talent being confident to say that their personal brand is more important than the brand of the company they work for (we do that already on LinkedIn, by the way).

Now... if only we could actually get rid of email. Am I right?

Don't forget that our team at TomorrowToday Global works tirelessly to help our clients imagine scenarios for the future, anticipate disruptive change and build adaptive DNA in your business today. Contact us to find out how we can help you do this.

See http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com or contact me personally at graeme@codrington.biz (you see what I did there) for more.

Imagine logging into your web browser and there's just nothing: no websites anywhere. You check your internet connection, and that seems fine. Your phone seems to be working. Except most of the apps are showing error messages, and there are just no websites.

This is what would happen if the DNS system stops working. This is the system that turns your website request into an address the IP and HTTP systems can understand. And our DNS systems are incredibly fragile, completely out of date, and most are run by under supported volunteers. Yes, you read that right. One of the most important parts of the Internet sounds like it organised worse than your local primary school parent association.

We live in a fragile world - way more fragile than we know.

And the system could fall over at any time. It did so earlier this year, with a bad Microsoft update shutting down airports, banks and water processing plants for two days. That was a warning of worse things to come.

On that happy note... have a great weekend.

Come with me to 2029, when a dark side of the robotic world becomes reality. The robots we will deploy in care homes and kindergartens - those humanoid robots who look after our elderly and children - are now revealed to be controlled by underpaid and overworked human operators in sweat shops on the other side of the world. Yes, of course, we will one day have fully autonomous, talking robots in the future. But for quite some time between now and then, the best way to achieve this is to have some level of human control. I don't think it will be benign and beneficial to the operators, sadly. There's a cautionary tale here about capitalism, worker rights, technology hype and the illusions of progress.

It's sometime in the future, and the next version of your favourite smartphone has just been released. Once again, the marketing hype is astounding, but the reality disappointing. What did they say: it's a few millimetres smaller (or bigger), and slightly lighter, and the camera has some extra megapixels and zoom, and ... that's it?

Smartphones should be curing cancer already. There's more computing power in my smartphone than existed on the entire planet when I was born half a century ago.

As much as we live in a technology world, innovation seems to have stalled a bit. We've got multi-billion dollar companies competing with each other for incremental improvements in features that are already good enough. What we really want is innovation that excites and delights, that makes a real difference to our lived experience, and that changes the world.

This week's ThrowForward Thursday is bordering on a rant, but it has an important point to make. What is your company doing to create new products and services that excite and delight your customers and clients? We need to uplift our innovation goals, and aim to do much more than merely optimise stuff that's already good enough.

Imagine what the world would look like if we all had the data about our genetic makeup, and we could see the many multiple ways our genetics shape who we are and what we are capable of. Imagine that gender wasn't the issue it is today as we think of the classifications of sports codes - no longer would be it "male" and "female" as the only two categories, but rather many different categories based on whatever genetic characteristics were most applicable. And then imagine, we could also apply genetic enhancements to these sporting codes?

We can only imagine now. But this is our future reality.

They're coming (as you will see if you watch the video on YouTube, mine has already arrived ;-). But the clones of the near future won't actually be copies of our bodies, but rather algorithms designed to copy our thinking.

https://youtu.be/B4hwb1ELvXY

Sometime in the future, we will develop the technologies to allow us to create copies of humans. But that's probably a long time in the future. More practically, we should be able to copy the way that people think, and digitise their personas, styles, knowledge and thinking. Using Large Language Model type tech, we could make these algorithms searchable and interactive, and in that way clone their thinking.

It's September 2082, and we mark the 50th anniversary of the official start of what has become The Great 50-Year Global Drought. Cities have been emptied, country borders changed, wars fought and entire economies gutted... and there seems to be no end in sight.

This episode of ThrowForward Thursday is based on historical facts. Back in 1177BC, a 300 year drought caused the almost complete collapse of multiple civilisations in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean areas. You can listen to Dan Snow's History Hit podcast, as he interviews Eric Cline, the author of '1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed': https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-bronze-age-collapse/id1042631089?i=1000664352855

It's a sobering lesson from the past. It's an alarming possibility for our future.

Sports News Headlines for 4 September 2039: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended

Just ahead of the first African Olympic Games in 2040, the latest Olympic sport of Jet Pack Drone Racing has been dealt a blow as two more deaths results in the suspension of the European League.

What might the future of dangerous sports look like? How do we push the boundaries of human endeavour while minimising risks?

More of a hope than a prediction, this episode of ThrowForward Thursday has a rant warning attached, as we imagine a future where companies have stopped outsourcing their supplier management to procurement services that make it incredibly difficult to sign contracts, send invoices and get paid for the products and services rendered. Stopped because - maybe - it has been made illegal to outsource procurement!

The cost savings companies make by outsourcing procurement services are completely outweighed by the brand and reputation damage they incur as suppliers are made to jump through time-consuming and costly hoops just to get paid.

Let's imagine a future where companies are driven more by creating a great environment in which to do business than they are by cost-cutting efficiencies.

Breaking news in 2037: the thawing of Arctic ice releases a 40,000 year old virus that doctors have never seen before. Another unintended consequence of global warming, and a reminder that our world is changing dramatically right now.

How would your business respond to another pandemic lockdown? What would the impact of a global health emergency be on your infrastructure, supply chain, and market. These are scenarios worth considering as you build antifragility into your business.

Contact our team at TomorrowToday for more assistance in building future-ready, antifragile organisations.

'Bionic' means Humans and Technology not just working with each other, but augmenting and even integrating to supercharge our outputs. There are three obvious ways this could happen: (1) Robotic exoskeletons and human/robot hybrids, (2) software and applications augmenting human intelligence, and (3) techno-diversity where technology becomes part of our diversity quotient.

We need to move from a goal of automation to a mindset of augmentation.

NOTE: The book referenced in the video is David McCandless, "Information is Beautiful". See his excellent website: https://informationisbeautiful.net

Imagine a world where a government bans energy drinks if they are proven to be bad for public health, and people are abusing their impact and causing damage to themselves and others.

This is not a prediction, just a scenario.

The question for you in your company is how would you handle a change in sentiment towards your products and services, maybe even to the point where some or all of what you do is banned by the State. It's about making sure you've considered worst case scenarios in your planning.

If you'd like help thinking about future trends, or future-proofing your company strategy, please contact our team to chat about what we can do for you. See our consulting work at http://www.tomorrowtoday.consulting

This is the start of Season 5 of ThrowForward Thursday. Welcome to 2029, where a weekly 15 second recording of your voice is used to diagnose a whole range of diseases and give early warnings of health problems in your body. This idea is based on the reality of recent medical experiments. Read more in the first comment below.

Season 5 of our Future Scenarios series is coming next week, starting August 2024. I hope you've enjoyed the past few weeks as we have profiled the work I am doing with Buhle Dlamini on The TomorrowToday Podcast.

See http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/podcast for previous episodes, summaries and links to your favourite podcast platform. Please subscribe, like and review The TomorrowToday Podcast - especially on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It really will help us.

In episode 3 of The TomorrowToday Podcast, Buhle Dlamini and I take a deeper look into organisational design and what it takes to build successful and future-ready businesses with competitive edge in the modern, connection-driven economy.

In this excerpt you can hear a snipper of my interview with Keith Coats about "The Connection Economy", and how the past helps us understand the future. Are our businesses ready for the future, or are we stuck in past practices that no longer serve us?

This episode covers essential questions about transformation, organisational structures, leadership and executive team agendas.

Search for 'The TomorrowToday Podcast' wherever you listen to podcasts, or find direct links at http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/podcast

In the latest episode of The TomorrowToday Podcast, Buhle Dlamini and I take a deeper look into organisational design and what it takes to build successful and future-ready businesses with competitive edge in the modern, connection-driven economy.

Are our businesses ready for the future, or are we stuck in past practices that no longer serve us? This episode covers essential questions about transformation, organisational structures, leadership and executive team agendas. In this excerpt you can hear a snipper of my interview with psychologist, Tamryn Batcheller-Adams about her book "Mavericks: How Bold Leadership Changes the World".

Search for 'The TomorrowToday Podcast' wherever you listen to podcasts, or find direct links at http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/podcast

We are still taking a break from our regular future scenarios, while my colleague Buhle Dlamini and I share an our new podcast, The TomorrowToday Podcast with you. We are looking at the characteristics of future-ready organisations, and in Episode 2 we hear from Dean van Leeuwen about the Three Dimensional Strategy Framework.

A 3D strategy has three distinct elements: (1) a strategic foundation that aligns purpose, values and a true north, (2) strategic essentials required to compete well, and (3) strategic differentiators that elevate your performance. Most companies focus just the second dimension, asking what we have to do to compete well and be effective and efficient. But to be future-ready, the foundations need to be aligned with elements that will really set you apart from others in your industry, not just now but in the foreseeable future and beyond.

This is a brief excerpt from the full episode. You can sign up to listen to The TomorrowToday Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and listen to the full Episode 2 with Dean and Buhle and myself.

Get links to your podcast platform of choice at http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/podcast

Here is a short excerpt from Episode 2 of our new offering, The TomorrowToday Podcast. Together with my colleague, Buhle Dlamini, we are mapping the future of business, looking at the key characteristics of organisations that are designed to be future-ready.

In Episode 2 we look at the Future of Organisational Design. If you like this sample, please find our podcast on your favourite platform and listen to the full episode.

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Sign up now so you don't miss any of the episodes of The TomorrowToday Podcast. Buhle Dlamini and I are the co-hosts, mapping the future of business for you and your team. Our goal is to show you what it will take to build an organisation that can handle the rest of this decade and the 2030s.

We will show you what a true future-proof business looks like, and what changes you need to make now to build one. Each episode highlights key research and our experiences, providing resources and actionable insights.

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This is the final episode of Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday. It's a longer episode today, as we review the most significant theme of the last 40 episodes.

This is your reminder that the future isn't just written in data — it's shaped by those who know how to use it. Lead with data, and let it lead you to unprecedented success.

Download the Strategic Imagination Toolkit at http://bit.ly/SIToolkit

Come with me to the future, where we realise that Artificial General Intelligence is not just an improvement on Generative AI but something different, developed on a different path.

GenAI / LLMs are brilliant. They're amazing tools, taking the sum of human knowledge (including all the incorrect stuff lots of people believe) and making it very accessible. Keep using and improving GenAI, but don't get sucked in by the hype of AGI just yet.

AGI is coming. But it is coming down a different path than we are on right now.

Imagine a world where the boring parts of learning - the dumping data into our brains - is all done easily using neural transfers, augmentation and technology assistants. What's left is for the human brain to do what it does best: creative thinking, problem solving, idea generation, and more. This week's leap into the future takes a view that Generative AI is not actually that intelligent - it just has access to all the data. When human beings have access to the same data, we will come up with much better new ideas, insights and wisdom than GenAI seems capable of now. The future is bionic: humans and machines working together, each doing what they do best to move our world forward.

Imagine the Indian elections in 2052 taking just 5 minutes to process, rather than the 6 weeks it takes this year. The vision is of digital first, ubiquitous, secure, personal technology connections in every sector and industry, reducing friction, demolishing time scales, flattening barriers.

Ageing musicians still touring, and ageing fans still wanting to go to their concerts, might prefer an afternoon start time rather than waiting until 9pm or later for the main event. It's not just Festivals that should schedule afternoon concerts - maybe every band should do so.

The theme of this week's "jump into the future" is that we should be open to questioning what is considered "normal" in our industries, especially when doing so could open us up to new opportunities, markets and customers. What's "normal" in your industry? And what experiments could you try to see how you could change that?

All plants extract minerals and nutrients from the soil they're growing in, but some appear to be able to extract metals as well, or at least metal ions that we can in turn extract from the plants. If we can do this at scale, we can use phytomining to get the metals we need to build the batteries we use to power our lives.

Here are some links to experiments underway on phytomining, and the promise of what this might bring in the future:

https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/the-greenest-way-to-mine-metals-for-batteries-could-be-with-plants/
https://resoilfoundation.org/en/innovation-technology/tropical-plants-contaminated-soils/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/metal-guzzling-plants-harvested-to-make-nanomaterials/2500240.article

As we watch elections in 2024 spanning nearly 70 countries and 4.2 billion people, one thing is clear: the current systems are not working. Voters are not happy, and have little enthusiasm for the politicians they can choose between (if they have any real choices at all).

So, come with me to the future, and consider four 'ridiculous ideas' for new approaches to Parliaments and Governments. We need to stretch our strategic imaginations in an effort to come up with new political systems.

Watch episode 9 about AI Politicians: http://bit.ly/TFTAIPolitics

Download the Strategic Imagination Toolkit sample: http://bit.ly/SIToolkit

ChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok and all the other Generative AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with our technology using natural language. Now we need to get our devices to understand the heuristics of requests and actions we ask them to do.

Rabbit R1 was launched to much fanfare in December 2023, as a first model of a device that can do this. I doubt it can deliver yet, but it's definitely heading in the right direction. And I love their coining of the LAM: Large ACTION models.

I think that Apple's AI play later this year will integrate Siri with early algorithm capabilities that take another step down this path of getting our devices to understand how the world actually works and be able to do a lot of repetitive and mundane tasks for us.

Your company should already be working on which tasks could be given to LAMs, building the algorithm systems to make these work seamlessly, and deciding how humans and machines will continue to become more bionic as we work together in the future. If you're just thinking about automation you're not thinking correctly about this.

As the world gets more and more water stressed, those who control water supplies in rivers, lakes and dams, will exercise more power and restrict access to water to those downstream. This could lead to conflict - legal and physical - that is both internal and crosses national boundaries. Some countries may even use the need for water as a reason to invade a neighbour. Whether as an individual or a business, or a region or country, we need to have a plan for water security that is equitable, agreed on by everyone, and future proof. We cannot live without water.

We have to do this! In our lifetimes we have to find a way to end the use of plastic as we use it now, so that we stop adding more toxins and pollution to our planet.

Imagine a world in which Rogue Waves made the oceans too dangerous for ships to sail, and we had to stop cruise liners and container ships from sailing. It would change our world as we know it.

It is an extreme and alarmist scenario, with one of the worse cases for the impact of climate change and global warming. It's designed to keep us thinking about what needs to be done to mitigate the impact of extreme weather on our world.

It's not a horror movie, with spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings. This is the future of the $40 billion window cleaning industry, using robots. They can do more than clean, though - they do real-time, ongoing analysis of the external skin of the buildings, keeping a record of issues and greatly enhancing preventative maintenance.

This is just one example of the potential of predictive data analytics when applied to real world objects that are instrumented and analysed. How might you be able to these data analytic ideas to your business?

A company is suing its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. I wish I could make up a headline from the future that was better than this - its actually a real story from February 2024 involving Air Canada.

The practical lesson is that we need to be careful of automating our workforces, rather than augmenting them. People who use AI are better than people who don't. AI, though, is better when it is used by people than when it is left on its own.

Learn from Air Canada's mistake.

Would you trust an AI-driven algorithm to help choose your life partner? If people were honest about the data they entered into these systems, and genuine in their desire to find a true life-partner match, this would definitely be an improvement on the basically random, luck-based most of us rely on.

Happy Valentine's Day... from the Love Algorithm. ❤️

In the future, we will use smart devices and even implants to monitor our every move, maybe even our thoughts too. How will we use this data?

It could be for Big Brother style management of our lives, or it could be for our benefit and wellbeing. That will be up to us.

This is actually not a prediction about the future, but rather a scenario to help us think about what we should be doing in our world and our workplaces now.

Imagine arriving at the office, and the lighting and aircon are just perfect, there's exactly the right ambient noise, the desk is set up perfectly, the food and drinks easily available are precisely what you need... everything is set up just right to ensure you can deliver your best work.

This is the workplace of the future that adjusts in real time based both on who you are and what you're trying to achieve in the next few hours.

Elite sportspeople already use data analytics to craft the perfect work environment for themselves. We need to use the same approach in our workplaces - not to extract MORE from our people, but to help them give their BEST.

Imagine we voted for the managers of our teams at work. Imagine our workplaces worked like democracies should.

Today's episode has a bit of an activist and culture war tone about it, as I suggest that one possible future for corporations is being more democratic. You see, here's the problem: while the corporation is the cornerstone of Western democratic capitalism, there is almost no democracy in our workplaces at all. We don't vote for who our managers should be. We don't vote for how much we should be paid. We are hardly even consulted about strategy or what products and services we should sell to clients.

Why not?

In a democratic world that glorifies individual freedom and the rights to self-determination, why is the corporation so authoritarian, class-based and anti-democratic.

I really do believe that this is one of the keys to building the organisation of the future. I hope this video gets you thinking about ways you can change and improve your workplace today.

Come with me to January 2026, when a major company announces a new reward system for the senior Executives: part of your bonus depends on how well you sleep each night. That's right: we are going to measure your sleep, and reward you if you do it well.

The science is pretty clear: sleep is one of the most important factors in clear thinking, regulated emotions, good decision making, ethical judgements, strategic thinking, and actually almost everything that makes a good leader good. So, why wouldn't we insist that good leaders get good sleep? I think we should. I think we will. Soon.

This is just one idea in a series of "future of work" suggestions you'll be hearing from me this year. I am passionate about helping organisations getting the BEST out of the people rather than just the MOST. Speak to me for more ideas if you don't want to wait for future videos.

We decided to publish this edition on Monday, 15 January 2024 - welcome to the first "full on" week of the year and welcome to another year of significant shifts in the world of work.

In this video, we look at the ten trends we believe will have the most impact on the workplace and the workforce in the year ahead. For more information on these trends, and if you'd like us to help you think through how they will impact you and create opportunities for yourself and your teams, please be in touch for a no-obligations chat.

Have a great year!

CONNECT WITH GRAEME AND THE TOMORROWTODAY TEAM Let's start a conversation to find out where I can make the biggest impact in your journey to being future-fit. Email me graeme@tomorrowtodayglobal.com

In the first episode of ThrowFordward Thursday in the new year, we apply our "Grey Elephants" framework to give you some scenarios for what might happen in the year ahead. The biggest question is not "what might happen", but rather "are you set up to take advantage of the opportunities that uncertainty will bring in 2024"?

Speak to our team to find out how we can help you both anticipate tomorrow's disruption and prepare to take advantage of it today. Send an email to graeme@tomorrowtodayglobal.com to set up a time to chat.

LINKS:

Episode 115: Introducing the "Great Grey Elephants" - https://youtu.be/vZl29L6VEjQ
Episode 116: Facing a Perfect Storm (Part 1): https://youtu.be/1QmvbNt7xlA
Episode 117: Facing a Perfect Storm (Part 2): https://youtu.be/vmdcRjIXynw

This is our final ThrowForward Thursday for 2023, and I look back at the work I have done with 154 different client engagements. There are five big themes that have emerged during the year, and I am sure will continue into 2024:

1. Generative AI
1. Future Trends - TIDES - Grey Elephants - opportunity mindset
1. Antifragility - Future of work and people
1. Peak Performance - 4 day work week
1. Think Like a Futurist - especially rethink and unlearn systems

See you in 2024. Have a good break if you're able to take one.

A Texas based company, Cemvita, has proposed using microbes that eat oil and excrete Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide as a solution for both cleaning out oil wells and generating clean energy.

This is the final episode of our future energy mini series.

We need new ways to generate energy - methods that don't damage and deplete the resources of our planet. In this episode we look at two very interesting ideas: ocean thermal and space farm energy sources.

Come to the future with me, where the current frustrations about the size, range, weight and cost of batteries have all been resolved. And check out a very clever solution for fast recharging that already exists. The future is electric. And it is very smart. This is the start of a few week mini-series on the future of energy.

In the past few episodes of ThrowForward Thursday, we've looked at a variety of technology tools that allow you to create digital versions of humans. Today, we look at three ways you can use these technologies in your businesses today (or at least, start experimenting with them in 2024). The full episode is only for members of my Futures Club, which you sign up for at http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com . I hope you give my Futures Club a trial - if you try it and don't like it, you can unsubscribe and get your money back. No risk, no mess, no fuss. Listen to this episode to understand what it means to build a bionic business.

Neuroscience is grappling with the issue of consciousness: what is it, where is it located, how does it work? When they discover these answers, it may be possible to transfer your consciousness from your body to something else. Or maybe just a machine that has consciousness. What would happen if we could that? This thought experiment invites us to imagine a future where humans and machines are much more integrated - augmented each other and building a better world together (dystopian options are available, of course). In next week's episode we'll come back to current reality and think about what a bionic business might look like. You'll need to be a member of my Futures Club to access that episode. Why not check the futures club out now and see the valuable resources there (no risk - money back guarantee if it's not for you) - link is in the first comment.

Are you keen to see a famous musician from the past live in concert, or to hear new music from them generated by their digital persona? This is now possible - but do we want it?

We already have almost all of the technology we need to create a digital replica of you: voice, visuals, and even your thinking, worldview and way of expressing yourself can all be mimicked. Would you want to create a digital replica of someone else? Would you let a digital replica of you be available online?

It's Friday, I know... but this is ThrowForward Thursday's second episode of Season 4 about three ways to experiment at work - or more precisely: three essential categories of experimentation you need to specifically focus on to ensure you maximise innovation, creativity and future focus in yourself and your team.

If you're a member of Graeme Codrington's Future Club, you'll have access to the full video and the details of each of the three categories and how to set them up - just log into the Club Portal to access it. If you're not a member, why not sign up now and get immediate access not just to this fantastic resource, but all the other amazing resources, past webinars, book reviews and future skill toolkits available for you: try it out at http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com - it's risk free. If you don't find value, you can leave anytime and we'll give your money back.

This is the first full episode of Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday. This season, we will keep the videos shorter, so they can be used in your "Five Minutes from the Future" sessions. And they will be followed (next week) by a discussion guide to help you and your team implement the Futurist Skillset we touch on in today's episode.

This episode is about future materials - for everything from construction to clothing - and how we're going to find new materials with remarkable properties. I take you back in time to how we turned Teflon into waterproof clothing, just by playing around in a lab; and look forward to how you and your team should be playing around with the raw materials of your industry.

To get early access to next week's discussion guide and resource about experimentation, make sure you join my Futures Club at http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com

WE ARE BACK!

Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday is here, and it's going to be brilliant. We are going to focus on providing videos that you can use in your "Five Minutes from the Future" meetings, with discussion guides being made available to help you and your team apply the ideas to your businesses.

You can always listen to these podcasts, but might also like to watch the videos at YouTube - here's a link to the playlist: https://bit.ly/TFTGraeme

This is the final video in our four part mini series on the disruptive forces shaping our world right now. We call them the "Great Grey Elephants" because they're here - in the room - waiting to be noticed. Instead of reacting with fear and concern, we need to respond with opportunity mindsets and excitement for change. Let our team help you do this. Check out http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com for resources to guide you to a new way of engaging with the future and with change.

In our mini-series on the high impact, hugely disruptive but often overlooked forces shaping our world (we call them the "Grey Elephants" in the corner of your office), we look at: * 4. Big Squeezes * 5. Angry People * 6. Multipolarity * 7. Intelligent Assistance

I hope you're enjoying this interlude between Seasons 3 and 4 of Throwforward Thursday, as we give you a summary of our team's latest research and insights.

Here is a very short summary of some of the research our team has been doing on the seven most significant disruptive forces shaping the world right now. In this episode we look at the first three: aging, angry planet and inequality. We will come back to the other four next week.

Don't just think about threats, though. The invitation is to consider the opportunities available in this time of unprecedented disruption.

We are taking a break from our regular weekly format of looking at "news bulletins from the future" and learning to "think like a futurist" (we will be back with Season 4 in September). Here is part 1 of a three-week mini-series sharing the work our team is doing on uncovering the most significant opportunities we are facing right now if we are prepared to deal with deep, structural change.

This is the last episode of Season 3, and we look back at my five favourite episodes, including SaaS, CRISPR, Deep Fakes and an update of me being brought to life by AI tech (you may want to check out the video of this one: jump to 4:30 here: https://youtu.be/WNNHzh3kFrQ ). I also give a quick tour of the Futures Club, and invite you to check it out, at http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com.

We will be back in September with Season 4.

If you are going to live a LOT longer than you think, it needs to change a lot of your life choices and goals. If you might be married for 100 years, or your career needs to last for 80, how would impact the decisions you make?

Living longer doesn't just mean living the lives we're living now but more years of the same. It means we have the opportunity to rethink and unlearn many different things. Join me as we think about life, love, work and careers in an aging world.

Last week's video on the Age of Grandparents: https://youtu.be/Kao6thEja0Q

One of the biggest societal implications of people living longer is that the ratio of grandparents to grandchildren is now higher than its ever been before (including great-grandchildren as well, of course). And since grandparents are more healthy and 'younger' than grandparents have ever been, they can get involved in raising their grandchildren.

This will free up parents. It could also be a way of generating income for older people. And it can shape societies and communities in new and interesting ways.

In last week's episode, we highlighted the Japan Airlines experiment of providing rented clothes to tourists. Today, we look at the business models underlying that experiment, and what our businesses should be thinking about in relation to ESG, SaaS and Platform Plays.

Japan Airlines are starting an experiment where holiday makers going to Japan do not take any luggage with them, but instead rent their clothes for the holiday on arrival in Japan.

Would you be keen to try this?

This is a sample of the full length session on the power and importance of data, and the three things you and your team should be doing NOW with data to future-proof your businesses.

For the full session, sign up now for Graeme Codrington's Future Club: http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com

The TED Talk by David McCandless can be found at: https://youtu.be/5Zg-C8AAIGg

Astronomers gather an astounding amount of data every day (well, mainly at night) in the form of photographs, radio, audio and spectral analysis from every part of the universe. You've no doubt seen the high resolution photos.

To analyse all of this data we need to use machine learning and proper AI - no human being or group of humans is capable of processing all of this data. In fact, astronomy has been using AI longer than most industries precisely because of this. This is what AI is really good for: data analytics powered by machine learning focused on massive data sets, looking for patterns and anomalies.

Read more about AI in astronomy (and make sure you follow the links in the footnotes and references):

AI Is Speeding Up Astronomical Discoveries: https://gizmodo.com/ai-chatgpt-astronomy-discoveries-harvard-astrobert-1850418252
The Evolution of Astronomical AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-evolution-of-astronomical-ai/
Astronomical big data processing using machine learning: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8305096

Next week, we'll look at the application of this approach to AI to your business and industry. To ensure you see the full video next week, make sure you join the Futures Club: http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com

In last week's ThrowForward Thursday episode we looked at one of the truly BAD days in history, 60 million years ago when a meteor hit Mexico and 75% of life on earth was wiped out. Bad... that's an understatement. We looked at NASA is doing to make sure that doesn't happen while we are here. Watch that video here: https://youtu.be/EUaVUbbLMWY

Imagining worst case scenarios is a key aspect of 'Thinking Like a Futurist', and in this episode I show you three tools you can use to do this:

In September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft deliberately collided with a small moonlet, Dimorphos more than 7 million miles away from earth. It successfully changed its trajectory, and proved that we can use this approach to deal with future threatening asteroids.

It's a marvel of modern science, but it's also a fantastic analogy for what businesses need to be doing with "worst case scenario" thinking.

READ MORE:

DART program: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/
Livestream of DART Mission: https://www.youtube.com/live/4RA8Tfa6Sck
Planetary Defense Coordination Office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Defense_Coordination_Office

We know that AI is coming. This year has shown us a vision of what's possible with Generative AI - but these technologies are not going to deliver on this visions. I say that confidently - they are not really AI. In fact, they might tempt some businesses into really bad decisions about how they use their people and systems - mistakes will be made.

So, smart business leaders must rather use the glimpses of the future that ChatGPT, Bard, Bing and GenAI tech have given us, to accelerate the strategic conversations about building truly bionic businesses. Bionic means that humans and machines are integrated, bringing out the best in each other, and building a system that is better than both would be on their own.

What does this mean in your business? Can you see beyond the hype of these early systems and imagine what a bionic future looks like? Let our team at TomorrowToday guide you as you think about this.

You can sign up for my webinar next week here: https://academy.graemecodrington.com/AIforLeadersWebinar

There is so much hype and noise around Generative AI (ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, etc) at the moment. We need to cut through this to make sure we make the most of it for our teams and businesses.

If you don't know what the Gartner's Hype Cycle looks like, check out the image at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

In this bonus episode of the podcast, we will then look at the role of a team and senior leader in any and every industry right now. They need to do three things:

Get the productivity and communication improvements you can.
Don’t make any dumb mistakes by misusing Gen AI for something it can’t really do (which means understanding that it isn't really AI after all).
Add AI and AGI (artificial GENERAL intelligence) to your strategy planning for the foreseeable future, and allocate some of your best people to lead experiments in how to apply them to your business.

And maybe the final thing you should do is speak to our team at Tomorrow Today Global to help you navigate these crazy times and make sense of it all. See especially a webinar I will be hosting: https://academy.graemecodrington.com/AIforLeadersWebinar

Let's jump just a few years into the future, where architects are incorporating real time data analytics to dramatically improve their human-centric designs, and are incorporating AI assistants into their professional offices. I think that AI taking over from human architects is a long way off, but by 2030, the architects that use AI and data analytics will be taking the jobs of architects who don't.

This is part 2 of our look at CRISPR gene editing technology. See Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/zA5_QX3MoMg Today, we take a look behind the scenes at how CRISPR-Cas9 was developed, and the lessons we can learn for innovation in our own companies. This is a SAMPLE of the full episode, which is exclusively available for members of Graeme Codrington's Futures Club. You can sign up for the club and access the full version here, right now: https://academy.graemecodrington.com/futures-club RESOURCES: * VIDEO by Dr Doudna: https://youtu.be/SuAxDVBt7kQ * The TomorrowToday Full Blown Innovation Model: https://www.tomorrowtoday.consulting/full-blown-innovation

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work on the gene editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9. This gives us the ability to change the DNA of any living thing, from plants and animals to humans. The applications are enormous, from improving farming to curing diseases. A decade or so from now, CRISPR will no doubt be taught in High Schools, and be a basic building block of medicine and agriculture. It is going to change everything. There are ethical and moral concerns, of course, and we will need regulations to ensure this powerful technology is not abused. But we should focus on the remarkable opportunities CRISPR has opened up for us. RESOURCES:

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
- iBiology: https://www.ibiology.org/crispr-cas-technology
- VIDEO by Dr Doudna: https://www.ibiology.org/genetics-and-gene-regulation/crispr-cas9/
- WEF on CRISPR ethics: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/biology-data-science-convergence-benefits/

Last week, I shared "21 Predictions for the year 2123" (see https://bit.ly/21for2123).

Today, we go behind the scenes and discover the two tools I used to select these scenarios, as we learn to think like a futurist. I'll show you the importance of a framework for horizon scanning, and then, if you're a member of my Futures Club, you'll see how to take the list of trends and disruptive forces and apply the Impact vs Probability matrix together with High Road/Low Road filters to produce scenarios that will help your team prepare for the future.

To sign up for the Futures Club and get the full video, go here: https://bit.ly/GCFuturesClub

This special edition of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work podcast is produced in collaboration with the Futures Club. This is the first half of the podcast, giving you a teaser of what is available to members of the Futures Club. Sign up for the Futures Club now to get the rest of this podcast:

http://bit.ly/GCFuturesClub

This is a summary of the most significant findings from the World Economic Forum's Future Jobs Report 2023, released on 2 May 2023. It looks specifically at the most significant skills that need to be developed for knowledge and office workers to remain relevant in an AI-powered workplace.

For our special 100th episode of ThrowForward Thursday, we jump forward a century and imagine 21 scenarios of what life might be like. This is one episode where you might enjoy the video more, as we have included a lot of relevant graphics and images: Join Graeme Codrington's Futures Club: http://bit.ly/GCFuturesClub The scenarios in this episode are not fanciful science fiction scenarios of flying cars or robot assistants (those will be old news in a century anyway), but rather our team's best scenarios for realistic but significant change to the way we live and work. Come with us to imagine a world of free and clean energy, where our understanding of dark matter has helped us to a giant leap forward in science. Marvel with us at the medical advances that have doubled life expectancy, integrated humans and machines, given people the choice of when to end life, but has also changed politics forever - we now have a young/old divide rather than a conservative/progressive one. We don't believe that there will be colonies off planet, but there will certainly be scientific bases on the moon and Mars, and maybe even further into space. There won't be banks or money - not as we know them today. There won't be cryptocurrency over. In fact, we will have a whole new political and economic system. And maybe - just maybe, if we dare to dream - we can imagine a world without war. All this and more in just 21 minutes. 21 scenarios for 2123. Imagine tomorrow's world, and start building it today.

What we can learn from the Ocean Cleanup Project about innovation through ridiculous ideas, experimentation and being a force for good. Members of my Futures Club will get access to the full video, but for everyone else, here is an extended 'teaser' which I am sure you will find useful. Prof. Jim Dator is one of the world's foremost futurists, and his Second Law of Futures states that "any useful idea about the future must appear ridiculous". What does he mean? How is this useful for generating innovation? Watch the video to find out. To watch the whole video, sign up now for my Futures Club at https://academy.graemecodrington.com/futures-club - it's no risk, with a money back guarantee if you don't find it valuable.

Our waterways and oceans are being polluted at unprecedented rates. But there are some glimmers of hope - one of those is The Ocean CleanUp Project, started by a young man, Boyan Slat. They've just announced that they've removed more than 200 tons of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's hardly a dent in the estimated 90,000 tons of plastic floating in that garbage patch - but it's better than doing nothing. And one day, it might just have succeeded in cleaning it up completely. Join us next week as we discuss what we can learn from the inspirational example of a young man who wasn't scared to have a ridiculous idea, to experiment with ways of making it work, and of building a business that does good in the world. Members of my Futures Club will get additional, exclusive insights, tools and resources to help them apply this to their own businesses. Sign up now at:

http://bit.ly/GCFuturesClub

Today’s ThrowForward Thursday is an exciting announcement about a new resource just for you: Graeme Codrington’s Futures Club. Most of my work is with senior leaders in large corporates, but I know that so many more people could find it valuable. I help people to anticipate disruptive change, scan the horizon to see what’s coming next, work out what to do about it all today, and even more importantly develop the skills and tools to ensure their whole team are future ready. And now I can help you do this. Find out more and sign up today at https://academy.graemecodrington.com/futures-club Your monthly membership gives you access to: * A weekly email with 5+ articles of the best bits from Graeme's analysis of current realities and future trends * Twice a month training videos on the tools and skills needed to think like a futurist * Regular exclusive webinars on relevant topics, bringing you future-focused experts, interviews and insights * A monthly virtual coffee meeting with Graeme and fellow Gold members to discuss what’s on your future of work agenda * Quarterly Keynotes with exclusive access to a recording of one of our workshops not publicly available ... and so much more ... Satisfaction guaranteed. Cancel anytime if it's not working for you. Check it out now, and join today.

This is the application session following last week's video on how AI is being used to create fake pictures, audio and video (see https://youtu.be/W0TGnyB5EgE ). This week, we look at the business opportunity of verifying the authenticity of media, and the importance of protecting your brand and teaching your team (and yourself) critical thinking skills.

Can you believe what you see and hear these days? Literally - can you believe it... when we know how good generative AI is at producing fake photos, audio and even video. This goes well beyond Deep Fakes (something we looked at in Episode 4, see https://bit.ly/TFTDeepFake) which is about mimicking someone. This is about creating entirely fake, but incredibly realistic photos, audio and video. Whether it's Donald Trump behind roughly detained by New York police, or a Greek firefighter rescuing a young boy from the Turkish earthquake, we literally can't believe our eyes and ears anymore. Join us next week as we talk about the implications, and what you can and should do in your company.

Drones are developing at a remarkable pace, moving well beyond the small flying cameras we use to take great holiday videos. They are now being used in a multitude of industries, and I am sure can be used in your business somewhere. In order to be able to imagine how you could use drones, you need to think beyond "how to do what we've always done, but just a bit better" and you need to adopt what I call "The Futurist's Question". This is: "What new ways are there to deliver value and outcomes to our clients, without just improving what we’ve always done?" If you haven't listened last week's video, please do that first, and then settle down to this application lesson in learning how to think like a futurist.

We might think of drones as toys, and maybe as a way to take great videos or entertain the kids. But today's drones are being used in a multitude of industries for more applications than most people can imagine. Have a look not just at what might happen in the future, but how drones are being used right now. JOIN ME NEXT WEEK as we look at how drones might be useful in your industry, and even if they're not we will talk about applying a futurist mindset to asking "what if" about new technology that has the potential to not just improve but also change your work dramatically. * FURTHER READING AND DETAILS: Future of fireworks and entertainment - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dipl-ing-lars-behrendt_innovation-creativity-entrepreneurship-activity-7014527609132732416-ullo - https://youtu.be/tcoIUd9Y3-w

Emergencies: fire fighting drones - https://www.flytnow.com/blog/drone-fire-fighting - https://www.adorama.com/alc/fire-department-drones/ - https://www.flyingmag.com/drones-wildfire-fighting/ - https://youtu.be/WFqThcMIN7A - https://youtu.be/sA4TW1UEW7o - https://youtu.be/D0O_i6lprcQ - Dutch ambulance - defribulator + connect to doctor - https://youtu.be/y-rEI4bezWc - https://www.herox.com/blog/189-the-evolution-of-uavs-the-ambulance-drone

Keeping swimmers safe from sharks: - https://www.popsci.com/environment/drones-shark-beach/

Agriculture - https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/future-of-agritech-2023-technology-and-ai-enhancing-agri/442698 - https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/05/20/this-australian-start-up-wants-to-fight-deforestation-with-an-army-of-drones

Mobile cellphone base station - example at sports events - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128623000683 - https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/these-drones-could-bring-you-5g-networking-after-a-hurricane/

Inventory and warehouse management and auditing - https://maxbyte.co/inventory-management-using-drone - https://www.apriorit.com/dev-blog/763-embedded-drone-management-system

War / Resistance: - https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a43170041/belarus-opposition-group-lands-drone-on-russian-mainstay-jet-video/ - https://warontherocks.com/2019/02/drones-of-mass-destruction-drone-swarms-and-the-future-of-nuclear-chemical-and-biological-weapons/ - Robots and Drones in War: Episode 28 of ThrowForward Thursday: https://youtu.be/p6PixDJaX2Q and https://www.graemecodrington.com/post/throwforward-thursday-28-robots-in-war-the-dogs-of-future-wars

How 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.

This is a 15 minute mini masterclass on dealing with disruption and changing our minds about some of the fears and objections we might have to change.

This is Part 2 of the Thinking Like a Futurist discussion on "The Robots Are Coming". Make sure you listen to last week's episode before you dive into this one. These might be worth checking out on YouTube, as there are some great visuals to these two episodes: Ep 90: https://youtu.be/MYqEkUX-h-M Ep 91: https://youtu.be/XUROF8cuZDc

A 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: a future to be feared. This ThrowForward Thursday episode invites you to come and imagine a world made better by brilliant robots. Next week, in our new approach in Season 3, we’ll help you apply these ideas and learn to think like a futurist - overcoming the fear instinct and learning to see opportunities.

In 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 industry and work. Today, we look back at the last week's "Smart Sleep" episode (watch it here if you haven't done so yet: https://youtu.be/XNd4YKfdGnw), and find the principles of data analytics, personalisation and optimisation. ACTION STEPS: * Whatever your role in your current business, show your team the first video on Smart Sleep, and then guide them through a conversation about the three key principles we extracted: data analytics, personalisation and optimisation. * Ask yourself and your team: - What data would we find incredibly valuable if we could collect it? - If we had that data, what types of personalisation could we develop for the people who use what we do (whether they're customers, clients, business partners, business units, colleagues, etc)? - How could we improve their lives by being more proactive, optimising what we do and pre-empting their requests? Having conversations like this is how you will learn to "think like a futurist" and develop strategic imagination. These are essential skills for you and your whole team to use in our fast moving, ever changing world.

Technologies 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 lighting, temperature and white noise, we actually already have all the technology we need to do this. This is the first ThrowForward Thursday in our new 2023 series, and if you watch the video you'll see we've upgraded our green screen studio setup. Next week you can join me to learn how to apply this scenario to your work environment. This will be the new approach to ThrowForward Thursdays, with a future scenario one week and an application session the next.

Every 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 opportunities to your products and services. Sometimes that's easy and obvious to do. But most often it isn't. Our brains are just not programmed for Strategic Imagination. And so, from February we are going to change the format of these Throwforward Thursday videos. One week we will share a future trend as we normally do; the next week, we will unpack the implications of that trend and show you how you can apply it to your organisation or function. We believe that the ability to do this is an absolutely essential skill for every member of your team to develop. This is not just for senior leaders or people who develop the strategy - it's a skill for everyone. We hope that you'll take time to watch our videos each week, and discuss them with your team - not just for some ideas of what the world of the future will look like, but also to intentionally develop your strategic imaginations, and unlock your team's foresight and future-awareness. You won't regret it, and it will take less than 10 minutes a week to do. Here's a quick video explaining the idea, and hopefully getting you excited for this new approach we will be taking from next month. By the way, as always, if you'd like to send us a message, or have a suggestion or request for a specific topic or trend, please use http://www.askabouthefuture.com to leave a voice, video or text note for our team.

Apologies 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't have to jump too far into the future to imagine a healthcare system that integrates smart technology with AI and machine learning to produce health care apparatus, some as simple as plasters and bandages, that are able to provide significant upgrades to the care we are currently able to receive while injured. But the point of this video is less about impressing you with visions of medical futures, and more about reminding you that seemingly small and technologically easy advances in almost every industry are going to make very big differences to our lives in the next few years. The rest of the 2020s is going to be a mind blowing blur of these small, but world-changing, advances. What can you imagine for your industry, and which of those ideas could you start to experiment with in 2023?

In 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 many people are lonely. So much so that the UK government a few years ago created a "Minister for Loneliness". Japan has something similar. More people live alone than ever before - although being alone and being lonely are two different things, of course. It's possible to be lonely in a crowd. Which is why society and companies need to think of ways to engage with people who feel lonely and need some connection. Companies should provide options: (1) automate my engagement with you - I don't want to connect; (2) give me a minimal human touch, or (3) I choose to chat. How would this apply to your industry? Would it be something your customers would pay a premium for? Or could it just be a wonderful societal contribution you could make?

As 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 artificial sources. Part of the drive to do this is to reduce our impact on the planet by way of factory farming. But, at the same time, food is not merely about nutrition - it's also an experience and a time of potential human interaction. That will never go away, but maybe in the future we will be more intentional about which version of meals we choose: some will be for nutrition only, and some will be for enjoyment and socialisation. Whichever versions you still have left in 2022, the team at ThrowForward Thursday wishes you all the very best for the new year. We will see you next week in 2023.

We 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?

We'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 possible. We knew it theoretically, and have had small successes in tokamak reactors around the world, but last week was absolute proof that we are on the right track. Here are some links to the announcements: * https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/what-a-breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion-technology-means-for-the-future-of-clean-energy * https://futurism.com/physicists-breakthrough-proves-fusion-power-possible

In 2023 the world is facing an energy crunch. But by the end of this decade we are likely to have significant long-term, cheap and clean energy available all around the world. The future is coming faster than we imagined, and solving big problems in ways we couldn't have imagined.

Apologies 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 we will probably all have multipurpose 3D printers in our homes, but between now and then, we will be able to go to local 3D print shops to do a quick print out of anything we need. Email them the design file, drop by later today to collect it. Simple. The link to Episode 8 on 3D printing is: https://youtu.be/G1BXDAMAOAc

This 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 with this week's "news bulletin from the future". John Oliver on Prison : https://youtu.be/_Pz3syET3DY Prison Labor: https://youtu.be/AjqaNQ018zU Principles of Restorative Justice: - https://restorativejustice.org.uk/what-restorative-justice - https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/victim/rest.html Portugal's drug policies: - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it - https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalization/ - https://justice-trends.press/the-decriminalisation-of-drug-use-in-portugal-and-its-impact-in-the-criminal-justice-system/

Sometime 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.

Imagine 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 is more integrated and generative.

That's this week's Throwforward Thursday vision of Grandparents of the Future.

Extra reading about combined child and senior care:
* https://youtu.be/j9BfAgRa2uI
* https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/the-preschool-inside-a-nursing-home/424827/
* https://ideas.ted.com/whats-a-nursing-home-combined-with-a-childcare-center-a-hopeful-model-for-the-future-of-aging/

Throwforward 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. If this continues at this pace until 2060, every single part of the planet will need to be covered by data warehouses.

Of course, we will find ways to store data more efficiently, and to reduce the size of hard drive space. But... add to all of this the energy and water used, and we have a massive problem in the making.

One possible solution is to store data in DNA (no... not inside your body, but in DNA stored in controlled conditions). All of the world's data could be stored in a location the size of a small motor car, using almost no energy, giving off almost no heat, and lasting for 50,000 years before decaying. It sounds like an incredible solution. And it is coming soon.

Further Reading:
* Data Centers Are Unsustainable. We Need to Store Data in DNA.
https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/11/08/data_centers_are_unsustainable_we_need_to_store_data_in_dna_863575.html
* DNA storage: https://www.techradar.com/news/dna-data-storage-is-the-most-important-innovation-youve-never-heard-about

Imagine 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.

This week's Throwforward Thursday might sound fantastical, but it's really an invitation for you to imagine what the world will be like when language is no barrier to communication.

The 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 immersive technologies that help us passionate supporters to get even closer to the action, experience being "in" the action, and being able to choose our own point of view during the game.

The future of live sports broadcasting must surely be immersive and experiential. Wouldn't that be a brilliant way to watch the World Cup?

The 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 immersive technologies that help us passionate supporters to get even closer to the action, experience being "in" the action, and being able to choose our own point of view during the game.

The future of live sports broadcasting must surely be immersive and experiential. Wouldn't that be a brilliant way to watch the World Cup?

In 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 about "switching on your radar", gathering resources and building a network that help you to spot trends before other people do - and before they arrive on your doorstep fully formed.

These are simple techniques, but can easily become part of your weekly routine, and will help you improve your strategic imagination.

The additional video series that I mention in this episode is available for free at: https://academy.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/seethefuture

Slightly 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 forces we believe are shaping the world, and we are constantly on the lookout for examples of change in these areas.

Next week, we will take a look at WHERE we look, to help you and your team get better at scanning the horizon for yourselves.

This is a longer episode of TFT than normal, but I hope you find it useful and insightful, as you develop your ability to think like a futurist.

Our 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 ecosystems.

We therefore look to the future, hopeful that we can find a way to stop the harm, reverse the damage and restore the environment.

The end of frogs? Let's hope not.

READ MORE ABOUT THIS:
* https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/amphibian-apocalypse-frogs-salamanders-worst-chytrid-fungus
* https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47735823
* https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/bd-frogs-apocalypse-disease/585862/
* https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/09/23/malaria-cases-surged-in-central-america-after-a-fungal-pandemic-wiped-out-frogs/

VIDEO: 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 this century: we could make water, seed clouds and scale up desalination programs. But each of these solutions has massive problems that need to be solved before they're usable.

However we do it, we will have to ensure we do not reach the end of water. That would be the end of life.

I 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 options that replace the overwhelming inboxes we deal with today.

Why don't you start now to do what you can to reduce emails for your team, your clients and your business?

More 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 possibly a significant shift in sex "as we know it" today, with many opportunities emerging for sex toys, sex aids, sexual health and sexual fulfilment industries.

There's nothing rude or crude in this video, but it might still cause one or two blushes to consider how sex might change in the future. If you're interested in even more insights, a research report from our team at TomorrowToday called The Future of Sex is available at https://www.graemecodrington.com/post/throwforward-thursday-69-the-end-of-sex

This 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 probably got the most up to date insights to share.

As always, we also talk about wine, and you'll hear my disappointment in not being able to introduce Carel to a stunning new wine - only because he already knows it, and agrees it is stunning. We both agree that this is a perfect way to end our series: to discover that something we thought was not yet experienced is actually already available. The future is here already.

OK... maybe we stretched the wine and investing analogy just a bit, but I hope you appreciate the insights and enjoy the conversation.

We 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 and resources:
* https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a39880899/earth-is-running-out-of-sand/
* https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is-running-out-of-sand
* https://allusesof.com/nature/25-uses-of-sand/

WATCH:
* https://youtu.be/CcQfkH-7w2k

We 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 research (and what "research means" to the average investor), and staying the course as an investor. We discuss whether we agree with Warren Buffett's investment advice about making sure you don't pick losers rather than trying to pick winners, and what to do when we really want to panic about the markets and losing money.

In the end, it comes down to having a plan, being consistent and believing in yourself. And knowing when to call it quits - like we had to do with our corked wine.

Carel 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 shore").

We then sample a corn wine from the Netherlands, and hastily retreat... because we still had two more videos to record, and that corn wine would have finished us.

This is video 6 of 8 - next week we will look at what can go wrong when investing, and will finish the week after that with what could go right in the future of investing.

If you're based in South Africa, and want to check out Easy Equities, you don't have to change your current broker or any of your current products, but you might find it to be the best online platform you can use for investing in SA and off shore. Check it out via: https://bit.ly/3Pdd2qN (I get some referral credits if you do... thanks).

Apologies 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 Easy Equities, and our love of wine.

Carel hijacked this segment by forcing me to try a Rose wine (he believed he had found one that I would like). So we start with the wine, but then Carel expertly leads the conversation into a discussion about the future of investing, how we decide what approach we should take with investing, and provides some insights into what his team at Easy Equities have found from the analysis of over one million trading accounts (including how they design their platform and constantly improve the user experience).

And, yes, we did have fun with this one...

Now 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 about hotels, food delivery and room service, and more about the potential of unexpected competition in your own industry.

But, if you do find yourself in a hotel and don't like the room service options, don't forget you have choices these days.

Antibiotics 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 could dramatically change how we manage healthcare. We need to use fewer antibiotics, in ourselves and in our food supply; and we need to look for alternatives to antibiotic use to combat bacterial infections.

Why do we still have rush hour traffic - with EVERYONE trying to get to work and school at the SAME TIME every working day? It's 2022 and we know about flexible working, and public transport and even the potential for AI-managed traffic systems (via traffic apps or driverless cars). This is not so much a prediction as a hope and plea that we rid the world of the curse of rush hour traffic as soon as possible.

One of the dumbest things we do in business is force people to retire, simply because they hit a specific date in the calendar, even though they might be excellent contributors and still want to continue working. As individuals, most of us already know we can't afford to retire in our sixties (especially if we are going to live much longer than previous generations). And many of us would rather save to give ourselves flexibility and dignity, rather than merely to be able to afford to stop working.

The concept of retirement needs to change, for individuals and organisations.

One of the dumbest things we do in business is force people to retire, simply because they hit a specific date in the calendar, even though they might be excellent contributors and still want to continue working. As individuals, most of us already know we can't afford to retire in our sixties (especially if we are going to live much longer than previous generations). And many of us would rather save to give ourselves flexibility and dignity, rather than merely to be able to afford to stop working.

The concept of retirement needs to change, for individuals and organisations.

The fourth (of eight) conversations with Carel Nolte about the future of investing where we talk about alternative investment options, asset classes for the future, and how we can get children interested in investing.

As always, we also talk about wine, and this time chat about an interesting blend made by an interesting wine maker, Erika Obermeyer. If you're not a fan of the wine conversation, skip a few minutes to the end to hear Carel talk about getting future generations involved in future investing.

If you're based in South Africa, check out Easy Equities as a platform - use https://bit.ly/3Pdd2qN (no obligations, but full disclosure: I earn just over $2 if you activate an account after you've had a look. If enough of you do that, I can afford another bottle of Erika's wine).

Imagine a world in which we don't eat meat from animals. No, not a world with no meat, but a rather a world where our meat is grown in labs, rather than on animals. And no, not fake or artificial meat (from soya or plants), but rather meat grown from animal stem cells, indistinguishable from "real meat". In fact, it IS real meat.

If we can do this, and ensure that it is healthy, economically viable, sustainable and ethical, the question is: would people eat it. I think they will. And I think it's coming sooner than you think.

Welcome to Throwforward Thursday. Welcome to tomorrow's world, today.

In this mini-series, my mate, Carel Nolte and I talk about the future of investment, the importance of wealth creation and I get to dig into some of Carel's insights from his work at Easy Equities (a South African investment platform that you can check out here: https://bit.ly/3Pdd2qN - no obligations, but full disclosure: I earn about $2.50 if you activate an account after you've had a look).

We also talk about wine, because Carel and I never talk seriously about anything without wine...

This is our third conversation, and Carel suggested we go back to the basics - to the very foundational principle of investing: DIVERSIFY. But he explains (in between sips of a fantastic red blend wine with lots of interesting, diverse grape varietals in it - see what we did there...), that maybe diversification can mean something different now than it did in the past.

I hope you're enjoying these conversations as much as I did when I had them with Carel.

We are all afraid of something, whether it is snakes, spiders, sharks, the dark, heights or something else. Could technology provide solutions by helping to train our brains to respond in different and less fearful ways?

The answer, of course, is YES, and it is already happening. Check out: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/13/no-fear-the-new-zealand-virtual-reality-app-helping-conquer-phobias

If you have any questions for our team about the future, or have an idea we can use in our weekly jumps into future, drop us a note at http://www.askaboutthefuture.com

This is the second conversation with my mate, Carel Nolte, where we talk about the future of investing, specifically about the ways in which we can build intergenerational wealth. The so-called "American Dream" from a century ago was that if you worked hard, your children could live a better life than you did. This dream should be the mantra in Africa for the next few decades, and it involves thinking differently about what we do with our money, the land, employment and investments. There are no simple solutions here, but these are the right conversations, and Carel brings some wisdom from what his team at Easy Equities are seeing as ordinary South Africans build wealth and a future. Carel and I also savour a fantastic Cape Blend from Idiom wines, that helps us prove the point about leaving an investment to grow better over time.

There are a lot of diamonds in the world - a total of about 6 billion carats (weighing around a million kilograms), with around 140 million carats mined every year. But known reserves will run out within a decade or so. That won't be the end of diamonds, though. We can now make diamonds in labs. Not "fake" diamonds - we can make real diamonds. But do we want to? Do you care, if you don't know the difference? Either way, we are facing the end of our current relationship with diamonds in the very near future. Diamonds - it seems - are NOT forever.

So here it is: the first of my series of conversations with Carel Nolte. We are long-time friends who often get together to talk about life, the universe and everything - almost always with a bottle of wine. We decided to record our conversation about the future of investing, so you could listen in. I am doing research for a new book, and Carel brings his years of experience at Easy Equities to the discussion. The result is 8 conversations, each about 8 minutes long, with 8 bottles of wine. Why not? In this conversation, we talk about RETIREMENT, what it should look like, how to save for it, and why you should start now no matter what age you are. We also talk about champagne, MCC and what glass you should drink it from - and a fascinating fact right at the end. PS. If you're interested in what Easy Equities does, it is a South African-based investment platform. Check it out (no obligations) by using my referral link: https://bit.ly/3Pdd2qN (Full disclosure: I think I earn about R50 or so if you sign up and start trading. Thanks!)

One day late, but that's because I spent yesterday with my good mate, Carel Nolte, talking about the future of investing and what he has learnt from his work at Easy Equities - an innovative investing platform based in South Africa. This is a quick introduction to a new series of 8 videos of Carel and I talking about the future of investing. Over the next 8 weeks, I hope you enjoy listening in to our discussions.

Here is a quick bonus episode of the Future of Work podcast, sharing an insight I discovered in a report from O/Slash. There's a hidden and surprising reason young people don't want to come back to the office: they waste a lot of time being tech support for older colleagues. Here's how to fix that, and build a better team culture.

Report available: https://www.oslash.com/google-it-first

Sometime in the 2030s, artificial intelligence-driven algorithms will prove to be better at picking stocks and managing investment funds than human beings - removing emotion, trading faster with more information, and course-correcting better than we can. We didn't think computers would beat us at Chess or Go - we were wrong. "Playing the market" might very well be something left to smart machines, as we see the end of... investment brokers
and fund managers.

In fact, this would be the end of EVERYTHING. There's an insect apocalypse happening at the moment. All around the world, studies are seeing alarming decreases in insect populations. The world as we know cannot survive without insects, so we need to take this seriously.

Here is some reading and links to important research studies: * https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/insect-numbers-almost-halved-by-agriculture-and-climate-change-3661659 * https://www.ecowatch.com/insect-population-decline-2649925146.html * https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/insects-apocalypse-dave-goulson/ * https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2002547117

A few days late this week, Throwforward Thursday jumps to the year 2050, where we might have no more cocoa trees in the world. And that would mean the end of chocolate as we know and make it today. There are things that can be done to ensure this doesn't happen - let's make sure we do them. We don't want to live in a world without chocolate, do we?

This week we start a new series about things that are going to end in our lifetimes, and how that will impact the world we live and work in. No, it's not going to be doom and gloom - some of these things can be replaced, and some we can do without anyway.

But our focus is actually going to be on how to prepare for deep structural and disruptive change, with foresight, innovation and adaptability. Please make suggestions for what should be on our list of things coming to an end at http://www.askaboutthefuture.com

Made from the stem cells of the African Claw Frog, xenobots were created at the University of Vermont in 2020. They're tiny organisms that have been DNA programmed to do specific tasks. By the 2040s we should be able to program xenobots to do very useful, very specific tasks for us, from collecting radioactive materials to breaking down plastic pollution. They could even be used in our own bodies to destroy cancer cells or clean cholesterol plaque from our arteries.

Some jobs in the future will require special skills, restricted to those people who have agreed to augment their human skills with additional functionality of robotics. This could be anything from exoskeletons that increase strength and endurance to bionic senses and even enhanced mental processing skills.

Cyborgs - human/machine hybrids - are coming.

Right now we are advancing our ability to fix problems with ears and eyes and replace broken parts to give sight and sound to people. In the near future, we will be able to go a step further and both bypass the eyes and ears sending signals directly to the brain, and also enhance the eyes and ears with bionic capabilities. Medical advances in the next decade or so are going to be quite mind blowing.

The development of real-time translation apps - for text, voice and visuals - is moving at breakneck pace. Although still not perfect, they are already remarkable. The next stage of their development will be the integration of these tools into our everyday lives, including into AR (augmented reality) devices like glasses, smart headphones and other wearables. This is a very near future reality, and a massive business opportunity in many different markets. Once the tech companies make translation APIs available, they can be included almost anywhere. CONSIDER THIS: How would having no language barriers change the way you do business and live your life?

It's our first anniversary edition of Throwforward Thursday, and Graeme reflects on the three main reasons why our team puts together these videos every week (spoiler: it's to help you get better at thinking about the world of tomorrow, and improve how you prepare for it today).

Twenty years ago, the senior executive team of most businesses was the CEO, COO and CFO - Executive, Operations and Finance. We've since added many new functions to this senior leadership group, including HR, Marketing, Technology, Information and more. But what will the C-suite look like 20 years from now? There are four key pillars to the future of most businesses that probably need new focused executive leaders. Here are eleven suggested new functions for the C-suite of the future.

Using two blockbuster movies from twenty years ago, we look forward at the future of data, predictive analytics, algorithms, and the ethics of how our data is used.

Science and art combine to show us what can go wrong, and remind us that the human spirit cannot be reduced to an algorithm.

This week's Throwforward Thursday episode was delayed out of respect for the lives lost in last week's deadly floods in South Africa (over 400 lives lost as of recording on 18 April 2022). These floods are the result of climate change and extreme weather, and are just one further deadly reminder of what our future holds. We cannot pretend that any of us will remain untouched by extreme weather. Each incident we experience should spur us on to make the changes and choices required to save our planet.

The Metaverse is rubbish - at least the version currently being hyped to us by retailers and employers. Join Graeme in the Throwforward Thursday studio to see what we DON'T want the Metaverse to be. Oh, and there are dragons. You might want to check this week's podcast out on YouTube - there are some important visuals that will help make sense of it. Go to http://www.youtube.com/graemecodrington

My final Throwforward Thursday podcast about Dubai Expo looks at my first and last moments at the Expo, where I realised it wasn't just about a fantastical vision of the future for my imagination, but was more an invitation to engage with heart and hands in what we can - and should - do to build a better world right now. This one has lots of video elements, so maybe check out the YouTube video as well as listening to the podcast.

The Dubai Expo featured many different visions of robotics, from robot security guards patrolling the Expo area to self-flying drones and robotic coffee baristas. But probably most powerful was a dance display in the Kazakstan Pavilion that was meant to inspire a vision of humans and robots dancing and working together in harmony, rather than the picture of robots competing to take jobs away from people. Discover the future of human-robot interactions at Dubai Expo 2020.

I have spent the past week in Dubai, visiting the Expo 2020. Here is my first review and reflection on the experience. I was initially disappointed to not be overwhelmed with inspiring innovations, until I realised that the purpose of Expo was to show us what's possible NOW and invite us to build and live it NOW. Expo was an invitation to all of us to do what we can to create a better world.

Plumbers (and all the tradespeople) of the future will be high tech. Drones, robots, and more will be integrated into what they do.

(PS. Tradespeople are always busy, never out of work, and will be able to charge top dollar for their high tech work. Maybe think about this before you default to choosing university as the only option for yourself or your child after school.)

This week we jump to a future when sports are no longer categorised simply into "men" and "women". I refer to this as "gender" as that's the common label, but more technically it is sexual biology that is important, and we know that this expresses itself on a spectrum rather than just in two big categories. We need to find a way to express this in sporting categories too, like we do with weight classes in some sports or physical ability at the paralympics. There are no simple and obvious solutions, but I imagine a future where we have gone through the tough culture wars on this issue and found something that works. I hope you can imagine that too.

Sports that are played outdoors and can be affected by the weather will be impacted by climate change. Whether that's not having enough snow at the winter Olympics, or not enough water at the summer version, or it's about the temperatures being too hot to be safe for athletes, the future of sports has to take into account shifting weather patterns. Your business needs to do the same, of course.

Let's talk about the future of the Olympics (Part 1 of 3), and imagine sports competitions with no restrictions. Competitors can do whatever they want to their bodies to enhance them and get maximum performance out of them. I'd pay to watch that. Would you?

Dateline: June 2032
Headline: Three major incidents in space highlight a growing problem of space junk

We've polluted every part of the planet, and now we are polluting space as well. Debris from broken down equipment, blown up space apparatus and abandoned space craft will cause significant problems in space in the next decade - not just in space, but also on earth, as some of this junk falls out of the sky.

NOTE: Go to Graeme Codrington's YouTube channel to watch the video of this episode to see this drone in action. It won't be long before you'll receive emergency care from a drone, carrying life-saving equipment and connecting you to a trained medical first responder. There are already trials underway in cities around the world. It just makes sense.

Investors of the future may very well prefer to rely solely on machine-driven trading decisions, with stock brokers marketing the fact that "no humans were involved in managing this portfolio". When it comes to technical, day- and flash-trading, it may very well be that a well written algorithm that uses AI and machine learning to improve itself is the best stock picker of the future.

Smart homes of the future will be much better equipped to look after our health, and provide real-time feedback on a multitude of health and medical related issues. From smart plasters to asthma detectors in our clothes, these innovations are coming soon to a home near you.

The 'Internet of Things' linked via the Cloud to AI-driven predictive data analytics healthcare systems... is a jargon-filled sentence, but also the future of our bathrooms. Smart toothbrushes to analyse your teeth and health while you brush, smart mirrors to check your skin for moles, smart toilets to analyse what you deposit. The future bathroom is smart... and keeping you healthy.

In the final episode of our holiday mini-series on watching the future, we talk about three key ways you can use Throwforward Thursday videos and podcasts with your team. We want to spark your imagination, help you extract principles for your industry, and discuss how will take advantage of the opportunities that disruption brings your way.

In the 5th episode of our holiday mini-series we look at the importance of adaptive strategies, having a strategy to develop adaptability and our need to not just rebuild and repair what Covid has damaged.

We continue our mini holiday series with a look at one of tools in the futurist's toolkit: future backwards thinking. Instead of being constrained by current realities, we can leap into the future and look back on ourselves. This mind trick helps us to identify key threats and opportunities that we might be otherwise blind to.

Our holiday mini-series continues with a thought from Prof. JiM Dator, a leading futurist: "All useful ideas about the future must appear ridiculous... at first."

You and your team need to stretch your thinking beyond what is possible with your current realities, and consider what you could create if you gave yourself permission to ignore current constraints.

The second in our special holiday series on how to use Throwforward Thursday videos talks about getting your whole team involved in thinking about the future.

This week, we start a holiday miniseries to help you and your team watch the future better. Today, we go back in time to understand what Amazon Go has been trying to do for the last 8 years, and what we can learn by looking beyond "the shiny things" to see the innovation system in the background. By learning these skills, you and your team will set yourself up for success in 2022. This is a slightly longer than usual Throwforward Thursday, but I hope you find it valuable to come "behind the scenes" with me as we learn how to watch the future.

As requested by one of our listeners (via AskAboutTheFuture.com), here is some information about Neuralink - what it is, what it might do, and when it's likely to be available.

In the very near future, the world's militaries will be incorporating even more robotic and AI tech into their armaments, including face tracking drones with weapons, robotic exoskeletons and robots with guns. Ideally, we'd be able to remove humans from combat, and even turn wars into video games - but that's unlikely to happen. Countries that spend the most money on their militaries will also use these new killing machines to change the rules of engagement. It's not pretty, but it is the future of war.

A day late, but still ahead of its time... here is this week's look at the future. The very near future in fact, because robotic exoskeletons are pretty much a thing already. They have application in factories and many industries, in the military and for healthcare. The Age of Bionics is upon us!

Sometime in the future - the sooner the better - we need to stop using plastic. It's literally killing the world, and us.

Imagine a time in the future where you could get the perfect meal - exactly what you like to eat, what your body needs for nutrition and what your budget can afford. If we can overcome the potential dangers of predictive analytics, we could learn to trust and enjoy the upsides of systems that proactively help us to live our best lives. This is the future we should be trying to create.

A cross over episode with the Future Smart Parent podcast.

We look at the future of education, and what parents can do to support their children through an education system that is trying to keep up with change and prepare our young people for the future of work.

From solar panels in space last week we come back to earth to find innovative, aesthetically pleasing ways of incorporating wind energy into our buildings and homes with a wind energy wall.

NOTE: This week's Throwforward Thursday is about a moving wall that generates energy. You might want to check this one out on YouTube to see it working. Go to http://www.youtube.com/graemecodrington and search for Throwforward Thursday 24.

In the future, we could have massive solar panel arrays orbiting the earth and beaming energy down to power plants on the ground.

We continue to look at the 5 ingredients of building a healthy hybrid team, focusing on Mastery. In this episode I answer a question: "Is Covid here forever", and talk about three things we need to do to develop ourselves and our teams over the next few years.

We have the technology to put civilians and non-astronauts in space. Space tourism can't be far away - not just a few minutes in near space, but proper holidays off the planet.

I am sure that in my lifetime we will see bases on the moon and people on Mars. We do this because we can, and also because such a great endeavour will encourage innovation and technology advancements that will impact the world today. It's more of an ethical and moral decision than a technology one.

We continue our mini-series in transportation, and throw forward to a time when you can get from anywhere to anywhere in the world in under an hour.

Not only will we have driverless cars in the future, but our team is convinced that they will be compulsory: this is the only way that we will get the benefits of driverless cars, specifically faster and safer commute times.

This is our first full episode for a while, so there's a quick 'catch up' on the five ingredients of healthy hybrid teams. And then we're back into unpacking MASTERY with the very practical and important issue of upgrading how you look when you join online meetings. Microphones, lights, cameras, backgrounds, software and apps to upgrade how you present yourself in the digital world.

This week we start a miniseries on transportation, by taking just a tiny step into the near future, where jetpacks will be used in many commercial, practical and fun ways. Yes, we will soon be able to fly (on our own). Don't forget that you can ask me any questions you want to about the future at askaboutthefuture . com

If we are going to live longer, we are going to have to change how we end life.

Over the next decade or so, professional services of all kinds will be impacted by automation, algorithms and robotics. I think lawyers might be amongst the first to feel the impact of this.

One of the disaster scenarios for the world is a massive solar flare that causes a radiation spike and an electromagnetic pulse which has the potential to wipe all of the world's computers clean. Just imagine the chaos...

Throwforward Thursdays is normally update and optimistic, but every now and again we'll drop in a disaster scenario too, just to remind ourselves of how fragile our world really is.

Humanity's future depends on our ability to live in, on and under the world's oceans at some stage in our future, doing a better job than we do now of sustainability harvesting energy and resources from the sea.

In the near future, we will be able to get nutrients into our bodies that are near perfect for what we need, and trick our brains into tasting the things we really want to taste as we do it.

Life expectancy has increased more in the last hundred years than the last 10 centuries combined. Half of today's young people are likely to live to 100 (if a major catastrophe doesn't change the world completely), and this has the potential to change how we think about life, love and everything else.

We continue looking at the five key ingredients for building a healthy hybrid team, with a focus on developing mastery in your team. Mastery is the confidence and competence to contribute, and the desire to get better and better at what we do. In this episode of the Future of Work podcast, we provide a variety of practical tips and tricks to help your team grow and develop, providing ongoing recognition and ensuring they're confident and competent in a hybrid workplace.

We are at the end of an era... do we really need to burn everything to start the next one?

It seems that way. All around the world, we are seeing riots and upheaval. This episode was recorded on 15 July 2021, and right now there are significant riots happening in Cuba, Argentina, Haiti, France, Turkey, Afghanistan, South Africa, Ethiopia, India, eSwatini and elsewhere. This past year have seen riots in the USA, Israel and Palestine, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Belarus, Lithuania, Brazil and elsewhere. And if we look back over the past 3 to 5 years, the list more than triples.

At the same time, many countries in the world now have the oldest leaders in office they've ever had, and many of these countries' leaders are outstaying their welcomes. It's mainly because the current political systems refuse to give up power.

This is a slightly different Throwforward Thursday that outlines where we are in history, and what's likely to happen next.

It's 2038, and Estonia has just elected the first AI software program to run a country in world history. There are some things that humans do better than machines, but there are a lot of things that machines will do better than humans. And maybe running a country is on that list (so are stock broking, some medical procedures and many other things as well).

We go back (rapid protoyping) in order to go forward to houses, medicines, food and living organs. Yes, all these things will be 3d printed in the future - and not the distant future, either.

Graeme asked for questions about the future of work, and didn't get many, and he thinks he knows why. We talk about four issues people are facing, and four solutions that will help you.

And then we introduce the concept of Mastery as part of our ongoing series in how to build Healthy Hybrid Teams.

Sometime in the future, some of our farms will be hydroponic high-rises in the middle of cities, providing local urban produce.

By the 2030s, the energy mix in the world will be different. Of course, we will have greener and cleaner energy. But more significantly, we will have cheaper energy, and that will change everything.

In this episode we'll talk about energy grids of the future, batteries and storage (and why Tesla batteries are way more important than their cars), ITER (turning sea water into free energy) and most importantly the price of energy in the future.

If I am right, this will change everything.

This week's episode is an extended answer to listener's questions about how to improve their team dynamics, their team engagement and culture. I interview one of the world's leading experts in Corporate Culture, the founder of the UGRs (Unwritten Ground Rules) model, Steve Simpson. It's a superb interview that will change the way you think about culture, and give you valuable insights into what you can do right now to improve the culture and feeling of working with your hybrid team.

Virtual Reality is already about a lot more than just games and fun experiences. Many industries are using VR to do remarkable things, from testing people's fear of heights before putting them onto construction sites, simulating underground crises in mines, team building, medical procedures or selling cars.

In the future, VR might be the solution to giving us the best of both worlds: the best of not having to go into an office, mixed with all the things we are missing about being in a physical space with other human beings.

There is no doubt that VR is in the future of every industry. But maybe it is in the future of every office.

The 2020s will be a decade of disruptive change from beginning to end. To succeed in an environment of continuous, structural change, we need to develop new technical skills, new adaptive abilities and upgrade our mindset to one that looks for opportunities in disruption. This episode of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work podcast includes the audio of a live presentation Graeme presented a few months ago, outlining these three key skills we need to develop.

Graeme also answers your questions. This week: How do I ensure virtual delegates feel included in a hybrid event. Graeme has a top tip for you.

We know that we can't trust the reality of photographs - Photoshop makes it too easy to manipulate them. Well, now we can do the same with videos. With very little effort, we can change videos, manipulate their content and create completely fake ones.

In this week's Throwforward Thursday episode we look at Deep Fake videos: what they are, how they're made, and - most importantly - what you can do to ensure you're not caught out by one.

If you'd like to make your own deep fake (like I did, inserting myself into the Gladiator movie), check out these sites:
* https://www.analyticsinsight.net/try-these-10-amazingly-real-deepfake-apps-and-websites/
* https://beebom.com/best-deepfake-apps-websites/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1d8GFWItg

Also see:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLoI9hAX9dw
* Back to the Future clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJnkJqkyio

Today we throw forward to May 2032, when we will be able to connect with our computers and devices using just our thoughts. We kind of can do this already actually, with a real-time MRI/EEG headset. Check it out.

We need to build our virtual team cultures with deliberate and intentional activities that connect us. They might be a bit cheesy, but virtual ice breakers can make a real difference to our sense of connection and belonging as teams. In this episode, I give you more than 20 ideas for creating virtual connection opportunities. In less than 20 minutes!

We also introduce a new feature to the podcast: your questions answered. To send me a question that you'd like me to answer about the future of work, go to: http://bit.ly/gcpodask

Throwforward Thursdays are the audio tracks from the video series of the same name. Every Thursday, Graeme looks at a key megatrend that will change the world in the near future. This week, we look at a wonder material that sounds like it is from a science fiction novel.

In a world of hybrid, remote and virtual teams, we need to focus on creating a sense of belonging with our colleagues. Doing this in the virtual world is not the same as how we would do it in the physical world, and we need to develop a new skillset and new approaches to build our team cultures.

This episode suggests seven great starting points for you and your team:
* Make personal connections
* Allow colleagues and employees to show vulnerability
* Include them in celebrations
* Build social bonds
* Positive feedback
* Diversity and inclusion is more important than ever
* Track and measure belonging

You have heard of Throwback Thursday. Why not Throwforward Thursday? I am a futurist, spending most of my time looking at disruptive changes that are coming our way. Every Thursday, I am going to do a quick video about some future trend that has the potential to change the world forever. And since it's me, I'll most likely focus on the positive, upbeat opportunities.

So, here's the first one: mRNA. Yes, the medical technology that has brought us Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines is also going to bring new cures and approaches for treating all sorts of diseases, from diabetes to cancer. And best of all, we will start to see these within this decade.

I'll release one of these short bonus episodes every Thursday.

Back in 2012, a team of smart data analysts at Google embarked on a massive research project to discover why some teams soar and others stumble. The project was dubbed "Project Aristotle". In the past decade, some of the most important findings from this work have become part of our lexicon as we think of how to build great teams.

Probably the most significant headline finding was the need for psychological safety in teams. The most successful teams are those that have a shared understanding of their culture, specifically in communication, connection and empathy.

The Work from Anywhere Revolution is not merely about WHERE you and your colleagues work. It's also not just about WHEN they work, either. It goes further than this to require a shift to an outputs-based workplace, where you don’t measure 'hours worked' at all.

To get the real benefits of a work environment that measures deliverables rather than inputs, you need really healthy and well-functioning teams in place. There are five essential pillars on which you should build these teams, and develop healthy and productive remote, virtual and hybrid workplaces.

Prof Jim Dator's Second Law of Futures says that any useful idea about the future must appear ridiculous. In this episode we investigate the power of ridiculous ideas to help you and your team innovate, and why we don't use this powerful technique more in our organisations.

Leaders need to rethink the issue of control.

The Future of Work podcast will include audio versions of webinars with leading experts on key issues to provide insights into the future and resources to make it a reality today.

This episode is a conversation between Graeme and leadership expert, Keith Coats, on the issue of adaptive leadership and why leaders need to rethink control.

Different industries were impacted in vastly different ways by Covid and Lockdowns in 2020. Whether an industry was devastated, or whether it had the best year ever (there are more of these than you imagine), there are four things that all of the most successful companies in each industry did. These four things will set you up for success in 2021, as we all continue to face disruption and learn lessons from what clever companies did last year.

The launch episode of the new podcast from Graeme Codrington and the team at TomorrowToday Global. This podcast is about anticipating disruptive change and preparing for it today, learning lessons from organisations that are doing it best. This podcast is for leaders and their teams, for organisations and individuals, and anyone who wants to be ready for the rest of the 2020s.