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Future-Proof Your Career

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Welcome to Future-proof Your Career, your guide to the most important skills for a long, successful working life. This is a special season of the Talk About Tomorrow podcast, exploring in depth the idea of the Three Cs, three skill groups that are critical to success, in a business or as an entrepreneur. The ability to curate information, create new things, and communicate ideas. In each episode we explore a facet of one of these skills, alongside a guest. My name is Tom Cheesewright, I’m an applied futurist advising organisations around the globe on how to see and prepare for the future. Alo...

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Episodes

Episode 12 - Securing the Extended Human 22.05.2017 15:53

With the NHS held to ransom by the WannaCry malware, Tom imagines how such infections might affect us as we become ever more reliant on technology - or even integrated with it.

Episode 11 - Into Space 08.05.2017 8:27

With the news dominated by politics, Tom thinks about getting away...far, far away, with two stories about the future of space travel.

Episode 10 - Your Privacy or Your Life 02.05.2017 8:05

Tom explores the balancing act between health monitoring and invasion of privacy as Manchester hosts the Informatics for Health conference

Episode 9 - Working 9-5, Learning 24/7 24.04.2017 10:02

This week Tom looks at the future of work - and what we do without it. How do we get the most out of our working day, and will the state support us when it's time to retrain with a Universal Basic Income?

Episode 8 - Learning To Learn 17.04.2017 27:01

What skills do we need to survive and thrive in tomorrow's world? Tom talks education with fellow BBC tech commentator and UTC MediaCity's business engagement lead, Dan Sodergren.

Episode 7 - Augmented Reality and Awesome Androids 10.04.2017 17:52

Inspired by the Science Museum's robots exhibition, and a debate with Google and the BBC on augmented reality, Tom explores tomorrow's mixed reality, populated by virtual beings both digital and physical.

Episode 6 - Smart Kitchens and Living Cities 03.04.2017 12:31

This week Tom starts work on the '4G Kitchen' with famous designer Johnny Grey and the National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University, and highlights the differences between 'smart cities' and 'living cities' at Pro Manchester's digital disruption conference.

Episode 5 - Smart Cities and Beyond 27.03.2017 27:18

Tom speaks to Andrew Beechener, founder of 'Republic of Things' about the strengths and weaknesses of smart cities, and Manchester's CityVerve programme.

Episode 4 - Faith and Failure 13.03.2017 8:41

Reviewing the newspapers for the BBC, Tom connects two stories about our faith in technology and the effects of that faith being undermined.

Episode 3 - Lovejoy and the Robots 06.03.2017 17:16

This week, Tom visits Sunday Brunch's Tim Lovejoy to talk about the rise of the robots

Episode 2 - The Future is Electric 27.02.2017 15:49

Tom reveals five trends for the future of energy from a new report produced with Nabarro, and debates the future of mobility at the University of Cambridge.

Episode 1- Superyacht Design Syposium, Austria 18.02.2017 13:22

Tom visits the Superyacht Design Symposium in Austria to discuss how tomorrow's technologies will remove the design limitations from these already-extreme vehicles.