On Tuesday ABC ran a prime-time special program The AI Race, supplemented by other content including analysis and an interactive tool on the impact of AI on jobs. The program was excellent, looking at people working in a variety of jobs from truck driver to lawyer and how AI might impact them. I appeared on […]
Influencer lists should be taken with considerable caution, however they can be useful general indicators of those who are shaping conversations in a particular domain. Atos Netherlands recently shared an analysis taken from Right Relevance of the top influencers in the future of work, shown below.
I recently was interviewed on ABC News about the future of jobs, in a panel dicussion with policy advisor Terry Barnes. You can see a video of the interview below.
It was a great pleasure to get a tour of the University of New South Wales’ Centre for Quantum Computation today from Prof Andrea Morello. The Centre was last year awarded A$70 million in funding from private and public sectors with the aim of achieving ‘10 qubits in 5 years’.
I am delighted to announce a massive transition in my work and life: launching a new group of companies with other amazing founders that expands and accelerates my vision. It is now over 20 years since I left employment and started building the Advanced Human Technologies group of companies, which spanned professional services, publishing, events, […]
I was recently interviewed for a News Corp article on the Australian response to the global backlash on Uber. I told the journalist in our interview that while I know a number of Australians who have deleted Uber, most Australians focus on the utility of the service. I was quoted:
I believe that we all need to be our own futurists: in a rapidly changing world we need the skills and capabilities to think effectively about the future so we can act better today. Perhaps humans are all in fact born to engage deeply in the future, it is simply a capacity we need to […]
I recently did a media briefing for Telstra Business on why small and mid-sized businesses need to adopt relevant technologies to keep pace with a rapidly changing business environment. One of the interviews I did after the briefing was with Kochie’s Business Builders. The two short videos below were excerpted from the interview, with summary […]
I was recently interviewed for a podcast on The Future of IT for Cisco’s Connected Futures program, along with leading CTOs, CDOs and technology strategists. You can listen to the podcast below. Points I make in the podcast on the role of CIO and technology leadership include:
Over many years I have registered domain names for interesting topics, almost all of them about the future. Using these, I have launched a number of online publications over the years, including FutureofSex.net and Creating the Future of PR, among others. One of the possible paths for my business was to launch many future-oriented publications […]
