Graeme Codrington's Future of Work

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

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 searc...

In the future, we could have massive solar panel arrays orbiting the earth and beaming energy down to power plants on the ground.   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 today. I help people make the future place of work a remarkable place for all of us....

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

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.    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 today. I help people make the future...

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

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.    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 today. I help people make the future place of work a remarkable p...

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.    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 tomorr...

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.    ABOUT GRAEM...

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   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, r...

If we are going to live longer, we are going to have to change how we end life.    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 today. I help people make the future place of work a remarkable place for all of us. CONNECT WITH GRAEME AND THE TOMORROWTODAY TEAM Le...

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.   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 today. I help people mak...

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...

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.    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 to...

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.    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 today. I help people ma...

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.   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptiv...

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 rec...

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 rio...

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).   ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author...

We go back (rapid prototyping) 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.   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 today. I help people m...

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

Sometime in the future, some of our farms will be hydroponic high-rises in the middle of cities, providing local urban produce.   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 today. I help people make the future place of work a remarkable place for all of us. CO...

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...

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 yo...

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...