Every one of the almost 8 billion people on this planet is unique. And everyone can contribute to the world and humanity in a unique way. Most of us spend our lives trying to work out quite how. The past of work has been one of using and paying for a tiny and specific portion […]
Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. For those are familiar with some of my work, the broader frame […]
A group of well over 1000 academics and researchers calling themselves Coalition for Critical Technology has just published a public letter to academic publisher Springer urging them not to publish a forthcoming article. The article claims to be able to predict if someone is a criminal based on a picture of their face, with “80 […]
In my recent conversation with John Hagel on The Virtual Excellence Show, one of the topics John shared insights on was scalable learning, which he has substantially focused on in recent years. For an excellent framing of the subject see his article in Harvard Business Review Great Businesses Scale Their Learning, Not Just Their Operations. […]
Today virtual live music platform Wave announced a $30 million investment, placing it at the center of the burgeoning virtual live music performance space. I recorded a segment for The Virtual Excellence Show on this, watch the short video below, including relevant video clips, or a transcript is below.
The pandemic is changing many aspects of our lives. One of the impacts is on homes and how we live. Fellow futurist Mark Pesce and I were interviewed for an article just out titled From a sharing economy to a sterile economy: how will COVID-19 change our future homes? Here are some of the quotes […]
Many people say that ‘teledildonics’ (defined by Collins as “a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely”) is their favorite word.
Humans, individually and collectively, often tend to get stuck in ruts and routines. That’s our nature, we try things until we find a point of comfort and then stay there. One of the biggest potential positives of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has broken established routines and structures, thereby giving us additional options and […]
Social isolation has impacted just about every aspect of our lives, not least our love lives. A recent article in Mashable titled Futurists predict what your sex life may look like after the pandemic wove together interviews with legendary trend seer Faith Popcorn, renowned sex futurist Byrony Cole, and myself. The full article is well […]
Until just a few months ago almost all conferences brought many people together into large venues, with captivating keynote speakers as drawcards and to set the tone of the event. Now almost all events are virtual, creating a very different dynamic for both audiences and speakers.
