Graeme Codrington's Future of Work

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....

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...

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.   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and...

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?   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and their teams understand and respond to tomorrow's world tod...

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   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Sp...

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 h...

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 'Th...

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 doin...

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 gli...

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 te...

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'...

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 a...

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 i...

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...

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 Econom...

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 flyi...

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...

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...

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 importan...

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.   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author a...

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. Whet...

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...

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 t...

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 th...

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 be...