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Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 178: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Post Truth WorldWhat if the truth could be edited? In a world of AI deepfakes, fake news, and manipulated media, how do we know what's real anymore? Blend science fiction and foresight in this mind-bending episode of ThrowForward Thursday, inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams' classic story predicted today's world - crowdsourced "truths," social networks, and reality distortion fields long before they existed. In this episode, Graeme unpacks what The Hitchhiker's Guide can teach us about: - AI-generated misinformation and deepfakes - The...
2025-10-1611 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 165: Smartphone Innovation (seems a bit stuck to me)It's sometime in the future, and the next version of your favourite smartphone has just been released. Once again, the marketing hype is astounding, but the reality disappointing. What did they say: it's a few millimetres smaller (or bigger), and slightly lighter, and the camera has some extra megapixels and zoom, and ... that's it? Smartphones should be curing cancer already. There's more computing power in my smartphone than existed on the entire planet when I was born half a century ago. As much as we live in a technology world, innovation seems to have stalled...
2024-10-1004 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 165: Genetic Enhancement and GenderImagine what the world would look like if we all had the data about our genetic makeup, and we could see the many multiple ways our genetics shape who we are and what we are capable of. Imagine that gender wasn't the issue it is today as we think of the classifications of sports codes - no longer would be it "male" and "female" as the only two categories, but rather many different categories based on whatever genetic characteristics were most applicable. And then imagine, we could also apply genetic enhancements to these sporting codes? We can...
2024-09-2707 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 164: Clones: Copy YourselfThey're coming (as you will see if you watch the video on YouTube, mine has already arrived ;-). But the clones of the near future won't actually be copies of our bodies, but rather algorithms designed to copy our thinking. https://youtu.be/B4hwb1ELvXY Sometime in the future, we will develop the technologies to allow us to create copies of humans. But that's probably a long time in the future. More practically, we should be able to copy the way that people think, and digitise their personas, styles, knowledge and thinking. Using Large L...
2024-09-1904 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 163: The Great 50 year global droughtIt's September 2082, and we mark the 50th anniversary of the official start of what has become The Great 50-Year Global Drought. Cities have been emptied, country borders changed, wars fought and entire economies gutted... and there seems to be no end in sight. This episode of ThrowForward Thursday is based on historical facts. Back in 1177BC, a 300 year drought caused the almost complete collapse of multiple civilisations in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean areas. You can listen to Dan Snow's History Hit podcast, as he interviews Eric Cline, the author of '1177 B.C.: The Year C...
2024-09-1304 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 162: Jet Pack Drone Racing League SuspendedSports News Headlines for 4 September 2039: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended Just ahead of the first African Olympic Games in 2040, the latest Olympic sport of Jet Pack Drone Racing has been dealt a blow as two more deaths results in the suspension of the European League. What might the future of dangerous sports look like? How do we push the boundaries of human endeavour while minimising risks? ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and their teams understand an...
2024-09-0503 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 161: The Death of Outsourced ProcurementMore of a hope than a prediction, this episode of ThrowForward Thursday has a rant warning attached, as we imagine a future where companies have stopped outsourcing their supplier management to procurement services that make it incredibly difficult to sign contracts, send invoices and get paid for the products and services rendered. Stopped because - maybe - it has been made illegal to outsource procurement! The cost savings companies make by outsourcing procurement services are completely outweighed by the brand and reputation damage they incur as suppliers are made to jump through time-consuming and costly hoops just...
2024-08-2905 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 160: Ancient Virus ReleasedBreaking news in 2037: the thawing of Arctic ice releases a 40,000 year old virus that doctors have never seen before. Another unintended consequence of global warming, and a reminder that our world is changing dramatically right now. How would your business respond to another pandemic lockdown? What would the impact of a global health emergency be on your infrastructure, supply chain, and market. These are scenarios worth considering as you build antifragility into your business. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and...
2024-08-2204 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 159: Human Robot Bionics'Bionic' means Humans and Technology not just working with each other, but augmenting and even integrating to supercharge our outputs. There are three obvious ways this could happen: (1) Robotic exoskeletons and human/robot hybrids, (2) software and applications augmenting human intelligence, and (3) techno-diversity where technology becomes part of our diversity quotient. We need to move from a goal of automation to a mindset of augmentation. NOTE: The book referenced in the video is David McCandless, "Information is Beautiful". See his excellent website: https://informationisbeautiful.net ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Spea...
2024-08-1511 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 158: France Bans Energy Drinks (future scenario)Imagine a world where a government bans energy drinks if they are proven to be bad for public health, and people are abusing their impact and causing damage to themselves and others. This is not a prediction, just a scenario. The question for you in your company is how would you handle a change in sentiment towards your products and services, maybe even to the point where some or all of what you do is banned by the State. It's about making sure you've considered worst case scenarios in your planning. If you'd...
2024-08-0804 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday: Ep 157: Vocal Biomarker Disease DetectionThis is the start of Season 5 of ThrowForward Thursday. Welcome to 2029, where a weekly 15 second recording of your voice is used to diagnose a whole range of diseases and give early warnings of health problems in your body. This idea is based on the reality of recent medical experiments. Read more in the first comment below. 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 fu...
2024-08-0103 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 156: Season 5 PromoSeason 5 of our Future Scenarios series is coming next week, starting August 2024. I hope you've enjoyed the past few weeks as we have profiled the work I am doing with Buhle Dlamini on The TomorrowToday Podcast. See http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/podcast for previous episodes, summaries and links to your favourite podcast platform. Please subscribe, like and review The TomorrowToday Podcast - especially on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It really will help us. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and...
2024-07-2503 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 155: PROMO TomorrowToday Podcast with Keith CoatsIn episode 3 of The TomorrowToday Podcast, Buhle Dlamini and I take a deeper look into organisational design and what it takes to build successful and future-ready businesses with competitive edge in the modern, connection-driven economy. In this excerpt you can hear a snipper of my interview with Keith Coats about "The Connection Economy", and how the past helps us understand the future. Are our businesses ready for the future, or are we stuck in past practices that no longer serve us? This episode covers essential questions about transformation, organisational structures, leadership and executive team agendas.
2024-07-1104 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 154: PROMO TomorrowToday Podcast with Tamryn Batcheller-AdamsIn the latest episode of The TomorrowToday Podcast, Buhle Dlamini and I take a deeper look into organisational design and what it takes to build successful and future-ready businesses with competitive edge in the modern, connection-driven economy. Are our businesses ready for the future, or are we stuck in past practices that no longer serve us? This episode covers essential questions about transformation, organisational structures, leadership and executive team agendas. In this excerpt you can hear a snipper of my interview with psychologist, Tamryn Batcheller-Adams about her book "Mavericks: How Bold Leadership Changes the World". ...
2024-07-0406 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 152: The 3D Strategy FrameworkWe are still taking a break from our regular future scenarios, while my colleague Buhle Dlamini and I share an our new podcast, The TomorrowToday Podcast with you. We are looking at the characteristics of future-ready organisations, and in Episode 2 we hear from Dean van Leeuwen about the Three Dimensional Strategy Framework. A 3D strategy has three distinct elements: (1) a strategic foundation that aligns purpose, values and a true north, (2) strategic essentials required to compete well, and (3) strategic differentiators that elevate your performance. Most companies focus just the second dimension, asking what we have to do to...
2024-06-2704 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday Ep 152: The TomorrowToday Podcast Episode 2Here is a short excerpt from Episode 2 of our new offering, The TomorrowToday Podcast. Together with my colleague, Buhle Dlamini, we are mapping the future of business, looking at the key characteristics of organisations that are designed to be future-ready. In Episode 2 we look at the Future of Organisational Design. If you like this sample, please find our podcast on your favourite platform and listen to the full episode. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and their teams understand and respond...
2024-06-2008 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 151: Introducing the TomorrowToday PodcastA special bonus edition to introduce our new Podcast to you. Sign up now so you don't miss any of the episodes of The TomorrowToday Podcast. Buhle Dlamini and I are the co-hosts, mapping the future of business for you and your team. Our goal is to show you what it will take to build an organisation that can handle the rest of this decade and the 2030s. We will show you what a true future-proof business looks like, and what changes you need to make now to build one. Each...
2024-05-2303 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 150: Data, data everywhere - Review of Season 4 and inspiration for the futureThis is the final episode of Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday. It's a longer episode today, as we review the most significant theme of the last 40 episodes. This is your reminder that the future isn't just written in data — it's shaped by those who know how to use it. Lead with data, and let it lead you to unprecedented success. Download the Strategic Imagination Toolkit at http://bit.ly/SIToolkit ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and their teams...
2024-05-1614 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 149: The path to AGICome with me to the future, where we realise that Artificial General Intelligence is not just an improvement on Generative AI but something different, developed on a different path. GenAI / LLMs are brilliant. They're amazing tools, taking the sum of human knowledge (including all the incorrect stuff lots of people believe) and making it very accessible. Keep using and improving GenAI, but don't get sucked in by the hype of AGI just yet. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders a...
2024-05-0907 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 148: Download data to our brainsImagine a world where the boring parts of learning - the dumping data into our brains - is all done easily using neural transfers, augmentation and technology assistants. What's left is for the human brain to do what it does best: creative thinking, problem solving, idea generation, and more. This week's leap into the future takes a view that Generative AI is not actually that intelligent - it just has access to all the data. When human beings have access to the same data, we will come up with much better new ideas, insights and wisdom than...
2024-05-0204 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 147: Digital Democracy 2052Imagine the Indian elections in 2052 taking just 5 minutes to process, rather than the 6 weeks it takes this year. The vision is of digital first, ubiquitous, secure, personal technology connections in every sector and industry, reducing friction, demolishing time scales, flattening barriers. 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 TEA...
2024-04-2503 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 146: Rocking the afternoonAgeing musicians still touring, and ageing fans still wanting to go to their concerts, might prefer an afternoon start time rather than waiting until 9pm or later for the main event. It's not just Festivals that should schedule afternoon concerts - maybe every band should do so. The theme of this week's "jump into the future" is that we should be open to questioning what is considered "normal" in our industries, especially when doing so could open us up to new opportunities, markets and customers. What's "normal" in your industry? And what experiments could you try to...
2024-04-1803 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 145: Phytomining (extracting minerals and metals from plants) All plants extract minerals and nutrients from the soil they're growing in, but some appear to be able to extract metals as well, or at least metal ions that we can in turn extract from the plants. If we can do this at scale, we can use phytomining to get the metals we need to build the batteries we use to power our lives. Here are some links to experiments underway on phytomining, and the promise of what this might bring in the future: https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/the-greenest-way-to-mine-metals-for-batteries-could-be-with-plants/ https://resoilfoundation.org...
2024-04-1103 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 144: Future Experiments in GovernmentAs we watch elections in 2024 spanning nearly 70 countries and 4.2 billion people, one thing is clear: the current systems are not working. Voters are not happy, and have little enthusiasm for the politicians they can choose between (if they have any real choices at all). So, come with me to the future, and consider four 'ridiculous ideas' for new approaches to Parliaments and Governments. We need to stretch our strategic imaginations in an effort to come up with new political systems. Watch episode 9 about AI Politicians: http://bit.ly/TFTAIPolitics Download the Strategic Imagination To...
2024-04-0407 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 143: LAMs: Large ACTION Models and the future of smartphonesChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok and all the other Generative AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with our technology using natural language. Now we need to get our devices to understand the heuristics of requests and actions we ask them to do. Rabbit R1 was launched to much fanfare in December 2023, as a first model of a device that can do this. I doubt it can deliver yet, but it's definitely heading in the right direction. And I love their coining of the LAM: Large ACTION models. I think that Apple's...
2024-03-2808 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 142: Water Wars As the world gets more and more water stressed, those who control water supplies in rivers, lakes and dams, will exercise more power and restrict access to water to those downstream. This could lead to conflict - legal and physical - that is both internal and crosses national boundaries. Some countries may even use the need for water as a reason to invade a neighbour. Whether as an individual or a business, or a region or country, we need to have a plan for water security that is equitable, agreed on by everyone, and future proof. W...
2024-03-2103 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 141: No More PlasticWe have to do this! In our lifetimes we have to find a way to end the use of plastic as we use it now, so that we stop adding more toxins and pollution to our 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 place of work a remarkable place for all of us. CONNECT WITH GRAEME AND THE TOMORROWTODAY TEAM Let's...
2024-03-1404 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 140: No More Ships at SeaImagine a world in which Rogue Waves made the oceans too dangerous for ships to sail, and we had to stop cruise liners and container ships from sailing. It would change our world as we know it. It is an extreme and alarmist scenario, with one of the worse cases for the impact of climate change and global warming. It's designed to keep us thinking about what needs to be done to mitigate the impact of extreme weather on our world. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future o...
2024-03-0804 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 139: Robot Window WashersIt's not a horror movie, with spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings. This is the future of the $40 billion window cleaning industry, using robots. They can do more than clean, though - they do real-time, ongoing analysis of the external skin of the buildings, keeping a record of issues and greatly enhancing preventative maintenance. This is just one example of the potential of predictive data analytics when applied to real world objects that are instrumented and analysed. How might you be able to these data analytic ideas to your business? ABOUT GR...
2024-02-2904 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 138: Chatbot sued by ownerA company is suing its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. I wish I could make up a headline from the future that was better than this - it's actually a real story from February 2024 involving Air Canada. The practical lesson is that we need to be careful of automating our workforces, rather than augmenting them. People who use AI are better than people who don't. AI, though, is better when it is used by people than when it is left on its own. Learn from Air Canada's mistake. ...
2024-02-2204 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 137: AI Selected Life-Partner (A Valentine's Day suggestion)Would you trust an AI-driven algorithm to help choose your life partner? If people were honest about the data they entered into these systems, and genuine in their desire to find a true life-partner match, this would definitely be an improvement on the basically random, luck-based most of us rely on. Happy Valentine's Day... from the Love Algorithm. ❤️ 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...
2024-02-1502 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 136: Workplace MonitoringIn the future, we will use smart devices and even implants to monitor our every move, maybe even our thoughts too. How will we use this data? It could be for Big Brother style management of our lives, or it could be for our benefit and wellbeing. That will be up to us. This is actually not a prediction about the future, but rather a scenario to help us think about what we should be doing in our world and our workplaces now. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and e...
2024-02-0805 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 135: Hyper-personalised Peak-performance workplacesImagine arriving at the office, and the lighting and aircon are just perfect, there's exactly the right ambient noise, the desk is set up perfectly, the food and drinks easily available are precisely what you need... everything is set up just right to ensure you can deliver your best work. This is the workplace of the future that adjusts in real time based both on who you are and what you're trying to achieve in the next few hours. Elite sportspeople already use data analytics to craft the perfect work environment for themselves. We need to...
2024-02-0105 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 134: Democracy in the workplaceImagine we voted for the managers of our teams at work. Imagine our workplaces worked like democracies should. Today's episode has a bit of an activist and culture war tone about it, as I suggest that one possible future for corporations is being more democratic. You see, here's the problem: while the corporation is the cornerstone of Western democratic capitalism, there is almost no democracy in our workplaces at all. We don't vote for who our managers should be. We don't vote for how much we should be paid. We are hardly even consulted about strategy or...
2024-01-2507 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 133: Measure and Reward SleepCome with me to January 2026, when a major company announces a new reward system for the senior Executives: part of your bonus depends on how well you sleep each night. That's right: we are going to measure your sleep, and reward you if you do it well. The science is pretty clear: sleep is one of the most important factors in clear thinking, regulated emotions, good decision making, ethical judgements, strategic thinking, and actually almost everything that makes a good leader good. So, why wouldn't we insist that good leaders get good sleep? I think we should...
2024-01-1802 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 132: The Workplace in 2024We decided to publish this edition on Monday, 15 January 2024 - welcome to the first "full on" week of the year and welcome to another year of significant shifts in the world of work. In this video, we look at the ten trends we believe will have the most impact on the workplace and the workforce in the year ahead. For more information on these trends, and if you'd like us to help you think through how they will impact you and create opportunities for yourself and your teams, please be in touch for a no-obligations chat.
2024-01-1512 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 131: What to expect in 2024In the first episode of ThrowFordward Thursday in the new year, we apply our "Grey Elephants" framework to give you some scenarios for what might happen in the year ahead. The biggest question is not "what might happen", but rather "are you set up to take advantage of the opportunities that uncertainty will bring in 2024"? Speak to our team to find out how we can help you both anticipate tomorrow's disruption and prepare to take advantage of it today. Send an email to graeme@tomorrowtodayglobal.com to set up a time to chat. LINKS: E...
2024-01-0407 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 130: Review of 2023This is our final ThrowForward Thursday for 2023, and I look back at the work I have done with 154 different client engagements. There are five big themes that have emerged during the year, and I am sure will continue into 2024: 1. Generative AI 2. Future Trends - TIDES - Grey Elephants - opportunity mindset 3. Antifragility - Future of work and people 4. Peak Performance - 4-day work week 5. Think Like a Futurist - especially rethink and unlearn systems See you in 2024. Have a good break if you're able to take one. ABOUT...
2023-12-1414 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 129: Oil-eating Microbes create Gold HydrogenA Texas based company, Cemvita, has proposed using microbes that eat oil and excrete Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide as a solution for both cleaning out oil wells and generating clean energy. This is the final episode of our future energy mini-series. 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 T...
2023-12-0704 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 127: Ocean and Space EnergyWe need new ways to generate energy - methods that don't damage and deplete the resources of our planet. In this episode we look at two very interesting ideas: ocean thermal and space farm energy sources. 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 Let's start a...
2023-11-2403 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday Ep 126: EV BatteriesCome to the future with me, where the current frustrations about the size, range, weight and cost of batteries have all been resolved. And check out a very clever solution for fast recharging that already exists. The future is electric. And it is very smart. This is the start of a few week mini-series on the future of energy. 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 pl...
2023-11-1605 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday: Ep 125: Build Bionic Businesses [Teaser Edition]In the past few episodes of ThrowForward Thursday, we've looked at a variety of technology tools that allow you to create digital versions of humans. Today, we look at three ways you can use these technologies in your businesses today (or at least, start experimenting with them in 2024). The full episode is only for members of my Futures Club, which you sign up for at http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com . I hope you give my Futures Club a trial - if you try it and don't like it, you can unsubscribe and get your money back. No risk, no...
2023-11-0902 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday Ep 124: Who Wants to Live Forever?Neuroscience is grappling with the issue of consciousness: what is it, where is it located, how does it work? When they discover these answers, it may be possible to transfer your consciousness from your body to something else. Or maybe just a machine that has consciousness. What would happen if we could that? This thought experiment invites us to imagine a future where humans and machines are much more integrated - augmented each other and building a better world together (dystopian options are available, of course). In next week's episode we'll come back to current r...
2023-11-0307 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 123: Digital (Dead) MusiciansAre you keen to see a famous musician from the past live in concert, or to hear new music from them generated by their digital persona? This is now possible - but do we want 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 make the future place of work a remarkable place for all of us. CONNECT WITH GRAEME AND THE TOMORROWTODAY TEAM Let's start a...
2023-10-2604 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 122: Digital Copies of YouWe already have almost all of the technology we need to create a digital replica of you: voice, visuals, and even your thinking, worldview and way of expressing yourself can all be mimicked. Would you want to create a digital replica of someone else? Would you let a digital replica of you be available online? 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 re...
2023-10-1906 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday Ep 121: Three essential ways to Play Around at work [SAMPLE]It's Friday, I know... but this is ThrowForward Thursday's second episode of Season 4 about three ways to experiment at work - or more precisely: three essential categories of experimentation you need to specifically focus on to ensure you maximise innovation, creativity and future focus in yourself and your team. If you're a member of Graeme Codrington's Future Club, you'll have access to the full video and the details of each of the three categories and how to set them up - just log into the Club Portal to access it. If you're not a member...
2023-10-1302 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday: Ep 120: Magic Materials, Goretex and playing aroundThis is the first full episode of Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday. This season, we will keep the videos shorter, so they can be used in your "Five Minutes from the Future" sessions. And they will be followed (next week) by a discussion guide to help you and your team implement the Futurist Skillset we touch on in today's episode. This episode is about future materials - for everything from construction to clothing - and how we're going to find new materials with remarkable properties. I take you back in time to how we turned Teflon into waterproof c...
2023-10-0506 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 119: Introduction to Season 4WE ARE BACK! Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday is here, and it's going to be brilliant. We are going to focus on providing videos that you can use in your "Five Minutes from the Future" meetings, with discussion guides being made available to help you and your team apply the ideas to your businesses. You can always listen to these podcasts, but might also like to watch the videos at YouTube - here's a link to the playlist: https://bit.ly/TFTGraeme ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the...
2023-09-2904 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 118 - Looking for Opportunities in Disruptive ChangeThis is the final video in our four-part mini series on the disruptive forces shaping our world right now. We call them the "Great Grey Elephants" because they're here - in the room - waiting to be noticed. Instead of reacting with fear and concern, we need to respond with opportunity mindsets and excitement for change. Let our team help you do this. Check out http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com for resources to guide you to a new way of engaging with the future and with change. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author an...
2023-09-0807 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 117: The Perfect Storm of Change (Part 2)In our mini-series on the high impact, hugely disruptive but often overlooked forces shaping our world (we call them the "Grey Elephants" in the corner of your office), we look at: 4. Big Squeezes 5. Angry People 6. Multipolarity 7. Intelligent Assistance I hope you're enjoying this interlude between Seasons 3 and 4 of Throwforward Thursday, as we give you a summary of our team's latest research and insights. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and their teams understand and re...
2023-09-0115 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 116: Facing a Perfect Storm of Change (Part 1)Here is a very short summary of some of the research our team has been doing on the seven most significant disruptive forces shaping the world right now. In this episode we look at the first three: aging, angry planet and inequality. We will come back to the other four next week. Don't just think about threats, though. The invitation is to consider the opportunities available in this time of unprecedented disruption. For more insights, see: Ageing https://tomorrowtodayglobal.com/2023/05/23/ageing-is-a-disruptive-force-grey-elephant-breakdown/ Angry Planet: https://tomorrowtodayglobal.com/2023/06/13/angry-planet-terrifying-future-grey-elephant-breakdown-2/ Inequality: https://tomorrowtodayglobal.com/2...
2023-08-2411 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 115: Introducing the "Great Grey Elephants"We are taking a break from our regular weekly format of looking at "news bulletins from the future" and learning to "think like a futurist" (we will be back with Season 4 in September). Here is part 1 of a three-week mini-series sharing the work our team is doing on uncovering the most significant opportunities we are facing right now if we are prepared to deal with deep, structural change. 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 t...
2023-08-1805 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 114: Season 3 HighlightsThis is the last episode of Season 3, and we look back at my five favourite episodes, including SaaS, CRISPR, Deep Fakes and an update of me being brought to life by AI tech (you may want to check out the video of this one: jump to 4:30 here: https://youtu.be/WNNHzh3kFrQ ). I also give a quick tour of the Futures Club, and invite you to check it out, at http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com. We will be back in September with Season 4. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert o...
2023-08-1110 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 113: Rethink and Unlearn Your Life in an Aging WorldIf 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. Join me as we think about life, love, work and careers in an aging world. Last week's video on the...
2023-08-0306 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 112: The Age of GrandparentsOne 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 of generating income for older people. And it can shape societies and communities in new and interesting ways. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the fu...
2023-07-2806 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 111: ESG, XaaS and Platform Play Business ModelsIn 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 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 T...
2023-07-2008 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 110: No Luggage Needed - Rent some clothes for the holidaysJapan 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 today. I help people make the future place of work a remarkable place for all of us. CONNECT WITH GRAEME AND THE TOMORROWTODAY TEAM
2023-07-1302 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 109: How to Think Like a Futurist ABOUT DATAThis 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 Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders and their teams understand and respond to tomo...
2023-07-0605 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 108: AI and AstronomyAstronomers 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 has been using AI longer than most industries precisely because of this. This is what AI is really good for: data analytics powered by...
2023-06-2906 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 107: How to NOT have a REALLY bad dayIn 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 'Thinking Like a Futurist', and in this episode I show you three tools you can use to do this: Grey Elephants (by which w...
2023-06-2309 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 106: NASA shoots a rocket into an asteroid to save the worldIn 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 doing with "worst case scenario" thinking. READ MORE: DART program: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/ Livestream of DART Mission: https://www.youtube.com/live/4RA8Tfa6Sck Planetary Defense Coordination Office: https://en.wiki...
2023-06-1504 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 105: AI Virtual Assistants - what they'll really be like and why we don't have them yetWe 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 glimpses of the future that ChatGPT, Bard, Bing and GenAI tech have given us, to accelerate the strategic conversations about building truly bionic businesses...
2023-06-0806 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkStrategic Issues with Generative AI: What leaders need to know about ChatGPT, Bard and BingThere 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 team and senior leader in any and every industry right now. They need to do three things:
2023-06-0516 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 104: Architects of the FutureLet'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't. 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 wo...
2023-06-0109 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 103: Lessons in Innovation from the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9This 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 access the full version here, right now: https://academy.graemecodrington.com/futures-club RESOURCES: VIDEO by Dr Doudna: https://youtu.be/Su...
2023-05-2508 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 102: CRISPR - Editing DNA for a better futureThe 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 in High Schools, and be a basic building block of medicine and agriculture. It is going to change everything. There are ethical and moral concerns, of course, and w...
2023-05-1807 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 101: How to build scenarios for the futureLast 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 apply the Impact vs Probability matrix together with High Road/Low Road filters to produce scenarios that will help your team prepare for the future.
2023-05-1111 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 100: 21 Predictions for the World of 2123For 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 flying cars or robot assistants (those will be old news in a century anyway), but rather our team's best scenarios for realistic but significant change to the way w...
2023-05-0521 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 99: Futures Club Teaser: What we can learn from the Ocean Cleanup ProjectWhat 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 idea about the future must appear ridiculous". What does he mean? How is this useful for generating innovation? Watch the video to find out. To...
2023-04-2710 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 98: The Ocean CleanUp ProjectOur 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 better than doing nothing. And one day, it might just have succeeded in cleaning it up completely. Join us next week as we discuss what we can learn from t...
2023-04-2004 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 96: Announcing our new Futures ClubToday'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 importantly develop the skills and tools to ensure their whole team are future ready. And now I can help you do this. Find out more...
2023-04-0604 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 95: Fake Media with AI - three things for you to doThis 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 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 t...
2023-03-3014 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 94: Fake News With AICan 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. Whether it's Donald Trump behind roughly detained by New York police, or a Greek firefighter rescuing a young boy from the Turkish earthquake, we literally can't believe our eyes and...
2023-03-2305 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 93: Drones application (do more than just improve what you've always done)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 I call "The Futurist's Question". This is: "What new ways are there to
deliver value and outcomes to our clients, wit...
2023-03-1612 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 91: The Robots Are Coming Applications and Thinking Like a FuturistHow 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 the fears and objections we might have to change. This is Part 2 of the Thinking Like a Futurist discussion on "The...
2023-03-0215 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 90: Aaarrrghhh, The Robots Are ComingA 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 better by brilliant robots. Next week, in our new approach in Season 3, we'll help you apply these ideas and learn to think like...
2023-02-2504 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 89: Smart Sleep Part 2 - applying the scenario to your businessIn Season 3 of ThrowForward Thursday, we will be helping you to apply our mini future scenarios. Every second week, we'll introduce a new idea from the future, as we normally do. The week after, we will revisit the scenario, extracting the principles and helping you see how to apply it to your industry and work. Today, we look back at the last week's "Smart Sleep" episode (watch it here if you haven't done so yet: https://youtu.be/XNd4YKfdGnw), and find the principles of data analytics, personalisation and optimisation. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON
2023-02-1610 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 88: Smart SleepTechnologies that not only track our sleep patterns, but can also proactively manage our sleep environments could revolutionise the way we sleep, and help us to improve this vital aspect of our health and wellbeing. From smart pillows that adjust to stop us snoring, to sensors that adjust lighting, temperature and white noise, we actually already have all the technology we need to do this. This is the first ThrowForward Thursday in our new 2023 series, and if you watch the video you'll see we've upgraded our green screen studio setup. Next week you can join m...
2023-02-0906 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 87: Develop Your Strategic ImaginationEvery week for the last year and a half our team has produced a short video that highlights a future trend or disruptive force that could change the world. The invitation to you and your team is to watch this video and imagine how it might impact your industry, your market and bring threats and opportunities to your products and services. Sometimes that's easy and obvious to do. But most often it isn't. Our brains are just not programmed for Strategic Imagination. And so, from February we are going to change the format of these...
2023-01-2006 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 86: Smart Bandages and Preventative Healthcare - examples of smart tech about to change our whole worldApologies for the delay in posting this video meant for 12 Jan 2023. I've actually been in hospital myself, and my team was on holiday until today. This was pre-recorded, but the content strangely appropriate as we consider how to proactively and preventatively take care of ourselves. We don't have to jump too far into the future to imagine a healthcare system that integrates smart technology with AI and machine learning to produce health care apparatus, some as simple as plasters and bandages, that are able to provide significant upgrades to the care we are currently able to receive...
2023-01-1603 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 85: Giving Lonely People The Choice to ChatIn 2021, a Dutch supermarket chain, Jumbo, created a special checkout line - it was designed to be slower and give people the opportunity to chat to each other and the cashier. It has received rave reviews, and Jumbo is now rolling it out to all their stores. Part of the reason for this is that many people are lonely. So much so that the UK government a few years ago created a "Minister for Loneliness". Japan has something similar. More people live alone than ever before - although being alone and being lonely are two different things...
2023-01-0502 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 84: Food in the futureAs we spend this last week of December battling to remember what day of the week it is, and finally finishing off the leftovers from our Christmas meal, here's a quick thought about food in the future. We will definitely be able to get more and more nutrients from pills, smart medicine and artificial sources. Part of the drive to do this is to reduce our impact on the planet by way of factory farming. But, at the same time, food is not merely about nutrition - it's also an experience and a time of potential human...
2022-12-3002 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 83: Smart glasses for driving and biometric feedbackWe know that smart glasses, which include VR, AR and XR functionality and heads up displays are coming. But what if those glasses could also look back at us, and especially assess our physical and emotional state using biometric feedback from our eyes? 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 TH...
2022-12-2202 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 82: Energy (tomorrow and today)We've talked about alternative and green energy solutions before on Throwforward Thursday (episode 6 - https://youtu.be/rI76SEIT2Ms and episode 24 - https://youtu.be/3nck4-WLYHo). Today, we look not at the future but at something that happened last week as we got proof that nuclear fusion is possible. We knew it theoretically, and have had small successes in tokamak reactors around the world, but last week was absolute proof that we are on the right track. Here are some links to the announcements: * https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/what-a-breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion-technology-means-for-the-future-of-clean-energy * https://futurism...
2022-12-1503 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 81: Overnight 3D Print ShopsApologies for the late posting of this episode of our weekly series into future trends. Today we imagine that we might have dedicated 3D print shops, or maybe 3D printers in local building supplies stores, that will be able to print out any 3D design for you overnight. A few decades from now we will probably all have multipurpose 3D printers in our homes, but between now and then, we will be able to go to local 3D print shops to do a quick print out of anything we need. Email them the design file, drop by...
2022-12-1204 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowForward Thursday 80: The End of PrisonsThis week we imagine a future where restorative justice and rehabilitation takes precedence over retribution and the prison-industrial complex. It's a dream, that doesn't imagine no criminals (we wish), but rather a different way of dealing with them. Here are some additional resources to go with this week's "news bulletin from the future". John Oliver on Prison: https://youtu.be/_Pz3syET3DY Prison Labor: https://youtu.be/AjqaNQ018zU Principles of Restorative Justice: - https://restorativejustice.org.uk/what-restorative-justice - https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/victim/rest.html
2022-12-0405 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 79: Smart Homes for SeniorsSometime very soon, we need to change our view of what "old age" looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older people will be happy living in. The simple version is that we need tech-enabled smart homes for seniors. 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 TH...
2022-11-2405 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 78: Grandparents of the FutureImagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they're healthier and living longer), where they get grandparent leave from their companies, and where we combine child and senior care in the same facilities. This is a wonderful vision of a future where society is more integrated and generative. That's this week's Throwforward Thursday vision of Grandparents of the Future. Extra reading about combined child and senior care: * https://youtu.be/j9BfAgRa2uI * https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/the-preschool-inside-a-nursing-home/424827/ * https://ideas.ted.com/whats-a-nursing-home-combined-with-a-childcare-center-a-hopeful-model-for-the-future-of-aging/
2022-11-1705 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 77: DNA Data StorageThrowforward Thursday 77: DNA Data Storage Every day, humans produce 2.4 quintillion bytes of data, and this doubles every two years or so at the moment. Most of this is now stored in "the cloud", which might be invisible to us, but is actually in massive data warehouses all around the world. If this continues at this pace until 2060, every single part of the planet will need to be covered by data warehouses. Of course, we will find ways to store data more efficiently, and to reduce the size of hard drive space. But... add to all...
2022-11-1204 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 76: Communicating with Animals (and anyone in any language) Imagine using the technologies we are currently developing to help us with voice recognition and real-time translation to be able to understand what animals are saying, and even talking to them in their own languages? This is a very real possibility by the 2040s. What a world that would be. This week's Throwforward Thursday might sound fantastical, but it's really an invitation for you to imagine what the world will be like when language is no barrier to communication. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and he...
2022-11-0604 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkBonus: Easy Future Conversations 7: What can go wrongWe are all caught up now... Carel Nolte of Easy Equities and myself, Graeme Codrington, continue our conversations about the future of investing - and wine - by talking about what can go wrong. We touch on the problems of unrealistic returns, overblown promises, day trading, lack of research (and what "research means" to the average investor), and staying the course as an investor. We discuss whether we agree with Warren Buffett's investment advice about making sure you don't pick losers rather than trying to pick winners, and what to do when we really want...
2022-08-2906 minGraeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday: The future of investing with Graeme and Carel NolteOne day late, but that's because I spent yesterday with my good mate, Carel Nolte, talking about the future of investing and what he has learnt from his work at Easy Equities - an innovative investing platform based in South Africa. This is a quick introduction to a new series of 8 videos of Carel and I talking about the future of investing. Over the next 8 weeks, I hope you enjoy listening in to our discussions. ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and h...
2022-07-0802 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 52: Happy 1st BirthdayIt's our first anniversary edition of Throwforward Thursday, and Graeme reflects on the three main reasons why our team puts together these videos every week (spoiler: it's to help you get better at thinking about the world of tomorrow, and improve how you prepare for it today). 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...
2022-05-0505 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 48: The MetaverseThe 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 ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future of work, researching disruptive change and helping leaders an...
2022-04-0709 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkThrowforward Thursday 39: Drone Ambulances and First Responders 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 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 plac...
2022-02-0302 minGraeme Codrington's Future of WorkMastery... and Why we don't have any questionsGraeme 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 change and helping leaders and their teams understand and respond to tomorrow's world today. I help people make the future place of wor...
2021-06-3025 minGraeme Codrington's Future of WorkThree Skills for a Changing WorldThe 2020s will be a decade of disruptive change from beginning to end. To succeed in an environment of continuous, structural change, we need to develop new technical skills, new adaptive abilities and upgrade our mindset to one that looks for opportunities in disruption. This episode of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work podcast includes the audio of a live presentation Graeme presented a few months ago, outlining these three key skills we need to develop. Graeme also answers your questions. This week: How do I ensure virtual delegates feel included in a hybrid event. Graeme has a...
2021-06-0737 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkBONUS: Throw Forward Thursday 2: GrapheneThrowforward Thursdays are the audio tracks from the video series of the same name. Every Thursday, Graeme looks at a key megatrend that will change the world in the near future. This week, we look at a wonder material that sounds like it is from a science fiction novel. 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....
2021-05-2004 minGraeme Codrington's Future of WorkAdaptive Leadership with Keith CoatsLeaders need to rethink the issue of control. The Future of Work podcast will include audio versions of webinars with leading experts on key issues to provide insights into the future and resources to make it a reality today. This episode is a conversation between Graeme and leadership expert, Keith Coats, on the issue of adaptive leadership and why leaders need to rethink control. 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 tom...
2021-01-1743 min
Graeme Codrington's Future of WorkWelcome to the PodcastThe launch episode of the new podcast from Graeme Codrington and the team at TomorrowToday Global. This podcast is about anticipating disruptive change and preparing for it today, learning lessons from organisations that are doing it best. This podcast is for leaders and their teams, for organisations and individuals, and anyone who wants to be ready for the rest of the 2020s. 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 he...
2020-12-2705 min