DECODING TOMORROW: FUTURISM AND FORESIGHTS TODAY

FORESIGHTS AND IDEAS THAT EXPAND MINDS AND INSPIRE A CHANGE OF HEART.

25 Mar 2018

How Swedish FinTech Tink makes managing personal finances fun & simple

In recent blogs I’ve discussed some of the disruptive changes that banking and finance have been going through over the last five years. I covered the cost of cyber criminals, and how banks need to be transformed by innovation rather ...

21 Mar 2018

Seamless banking transformation: Omnichannel & FinTech

TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES WITH A BANKING LICENCE The dire warning that banking jobs will be slashed over the next few years has been kicking around for a while (Vikram Pandit, former head of Citigroup, predicted 30 per cent would go in the ...

18 Mar 2018

Artificial Intelligence: Machine learning is thumping human learning

By now you’ve probably seen some footage or coverage of Robot Sophia, designed by Dr David Hanson and his team at Hanson Robotics. Not only can Sophia respond to questions put to her, she can ‘read’ the world around her, gaining ...

07 Mar 2018

Future-proofing yourself and your career

Historically, the workforce as always been pretty fluid – as employment requirements waned in one industry, they grew in another, and people eventually learned new skills and flowed across. Economists point to the historical changing ...

04 Mar 2018

Preparing your kids for jobs in the future

We’ve all heard the warnings that robots are coming for our jobs, and that this threat is only going to grow exponentially in the future, and dramatically change the work environment. Indeed, a statistic quoted by the World Economic ...

01 Mar 2018

Robot rights, human rights and technology with heart

Robot Sophia has been doing the rounds for the last few months now, playing rock, paper, scissors with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, cracking jokes on Good Morning Britain or naming Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan as her favourite ...

25 Feb 2018

Artificial intelligence as your human interface

Say you’ve just missed a flight home. (Perhaps you overindulged at the end of the conference the night before, or perhaps that final meeting just would not end.) On your way to the airport, you contact the airline via their LiveChat ...