DECODING TOMORROW: FUTURISM AND FORESIGHTS TODAY

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

24 Jun 2019

Research Reveals: Majority of Humans are Fearful of Advancements in AI, with Many Believing Ethics Should be Programmed In

Human fears surrounding the future of AI is a hot topic of late. Are you fearful of these kinds of advancements? Or are you a futurephile like me, excited for the future and the exhilarating technologies it will present? If you are on ...

28 Mar 2019

Artificial Intelligence: Over Half of Australians Believe That Robots Will Have More Control Over the World Than Humans by 2040

Robots taking control of the world in just 20 years’ time is a pretty crazy thought, right? Sounds SkyNet-ish! Well, not according to new research that we conducted where 52% of Australians said that they believe that robots will have ...

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 ...