Future Tech And Foresight

Will private and public blockchains be hampered by an ever growing need to remain safe, or is there a way to deal with hacks and overall cybersecurity? My guest Souhail Mssassi joins me today to talk about these issues and the future of cybersecurity in the blockchain space.

Sunil Ranka of Predikly discusses how Robotic Process Automation is changing business processes and the Future of Work

What is the Metaverse? How will it impact society and will it be a net positive for us or will it make things worse?

An exploration as to how Artificial Intelligence is changing how organisations create content, what benefits are realised, and how jobs are transformed as a consequence.

With the new vaccine mandate and healthcare professionals being removed, will the labour shortages act as an opportunity for healthcare robots to enter the industry.

A discussion on how to manage our satellite collisions with space junk as the number of launches and space assets will increase over the coming decades.

A discussion about how Virtual Reality is being used to treat pain and other health issues and what this means for the future.

Why was Thorium nuclear energy forgotten to history even if it was safer, more efficient and cheaper for energy production? By looking at the story of Thorium we see that technology adoption and use isn't a determined outcome.

Professor Nico Larco comes on to explain both the positive and negative implications for cities in adopting autonomous vehicles, how covid may have changed things with regard to this technology, and how individuals will be affected by this powerful technology.

Over the past few years 5G has been a contentious topic. But as an innovation that will underpin several other technologies and sectors, its impact has the possibility to be as substantial as it will be broad. What are the likely social, technological, and economic benefits that will follow?

A quick look into the idea of treating your personal data as labour, and turning the benefit of data use back to the user.

What is it like shopping in an automated store? Both Amazon and Alibaba have implemented grocery stores where no cashiers are needed, and technologies like facial recognition enable automated payments. What is it like using these stores and are they the future?

What are the arguments for and against UBI, the impact that Covid has had, as well as the numerous pilot studies that have happened across the world and what we can learn from them? Hilde Latour, the Vice-Chair Basic Income Earth Network, comes onto the podcast this week to discuss these points and more.

Kyle Cobb, Co-founder and CFO of Advanced. Farm discusses the impact that autonomous harvesting will have on farmers, workers, and agriculture in general.

What are the differences between how AI is being developed and implemented in Europe as compared to China or the US? What are the challenges and future of AI in Europe. Philipp Slusallek of DFKI and I discuss the issues around European AI today.

With Bitcoin now in legal use across El Salvador what does this mean for the rest of Latin America and the world?

Giorgio Tarraf, Technology Intelligence Director of L'Atelier BNP Paribas comes onto the podcast to discuss the virtual economy, a new emerging space that exists outside of the real economy, and why it will be important for the future of work, address inequality, and what opportunities there are for people today.

One of the growing challenges for the space industry is tracking both satellites and debris to avoid collisions, which gets more problematic every year as more satellites enter the earth's orbit. To explain how this will play out, the industry, potential job impact, and future vision is Araz Feyzi Co-founder and CTO of Kayhan Space.

As our world becomes both more digitised and more automated, data is becoming more and more central to the way the world operates, and thus vulnerability in both our businesses and personal lives needs to be taken more seriously

How is AI and Robotics changing recycling and waste management? Eric Camirand of Waste Robotics explains the impact that technology is having on waste sorting and the future of circularity.

In part 2 of the conversation with Matthew Griffin we discuss the importance of a new educational paradigm for the future, how fully autonomous businesses will emerge, Universal Basic Income, and more!

It is quite a challenge to predict what changes will come beyond a 10 year time horizon due to the accelerating nature of technological development, and the convergences between these technologies. But in today’s episode we look beyond the 10 year time horizon for the Future of Work, with the help of futurist Matthew Griffin.

What is the future of Smart Cities? This episode explores how Smart Cities will impact the Future of Work and what negative issues will arise.

Today’s episode looks at perhaps the clearest example of a technology that augments workers, patients, and people in general; exoskeletons. My guest today to talk about this technology is Dr. Saskia Baltrusch.

Social Robots will be the focus of the discussion today with Oliver Korn the Director of the Affective & Cognitive Institute at Offenburg University in Germany. We talk about where social robots are being used today, and why they can even be a better alternative than living creatures in places like elderly care.