Graeme Codrington's Future of Work

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. Eac...

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...

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...

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.   A...

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.)   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTO...

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 c...

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

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...

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.   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author an...

Investors of the future may very well prefer to rely solely on machine-driven trading decisions, with stockbrokers 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.    ABOUT GRAE...

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

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.   ABOUT GRAEM...

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 you will take advantage of the opportunities that disruption brings your way.    ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert...

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 sl...

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...

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.