Ross Dawson recently did the opening keynote speech at Australasian Long-term Health Conditions Conference in Auckland, New Zealand.
NZ Doctor reported on Dawson’s keynote in an article titled Technology shifts the ‘power’ to patients:
Technology is driving a shift of power from institutions and professions towards consumers and individuals, according to futurist Ross Dawson.
A keynote speaker at the Australasian Long-Term Conditions conference being held in Auckland today, 29 July, and tomorrow, 30 July, Mr Dawson wowed delegates with examples of technology changing the way we live and work.
In one case, the brain of a paralysed woman was hardwired to a robotic arm and by thinking, she was able to instruct the arm to pick up a mug so she could drink through the straw.
By 2017, half the people in the world will have smartphones and half will have downloaded a medical app, Mr Dawson says.
Smartphones and other portable devices such as smart-watches, essentially powerful computers, can gather real-time health information.
That’s putting power with the consumer, Mr Dawson says.
The article goes on to describe how social media and smartphones are shifting power in health:
Social media and smartphones are driving the shift of power and increasingly consumers have expectations of good service, irrespective of who is delivering it.
Mr Dawson spoke of smart homes, wired to understand the health needs of occupants, sensing whether someone was in trouble and reacting accordingly.
Such technology would enable people to live longer in their own homes before needing rest home care.
The article goes on to look at Dawson’s comments on remote work, monitoring patients’ medicine-taking, and changing health behaviors.
More details can be found in the complete article.
Report: The Future of Back-to-School
By Ross DawsonI am currently in Toronto to launch a report commissioned by Visa Canada on The Future of Back-to-School.
As noted in the announcement of the report:
You can download the full report by clicking on the image of the report cover below.
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Future meetups next week in NYC and Toronto
By Ross DawsonI will be in New York City next Monday 25th and then in Toronto for a couple of days for a client media campaign on the future.
Since I’m in town so briefly I’m organizing ‘Future meetups’ in each city. These bring together some interesting people I know and anyone else who is interested in joining us for conversations about the future, connected world, media, technology, the usual things… All very casual.
I would love it if you made it along, feel free to pass on word to others, all are welcome.
If you’re coming you can register on the Facebook event, comment on this post, tweet me, or just turn up!
Hope to see you there.
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The politics of crowdsourcing in government
By Ross DawsonLast week the New South Wales government announced that it will use crowdsourcing to seek solutions, first to traffic problems and then more broadly to government policy challenges.
Channel 7 News did a piece on the story, including an excerpt with an interview with me about the initiative. You can watch the clip by clicking on the image below.
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Will rapid advances in robots and AI displace work and jobs or create them?
By Ross DawsonOne of the most important – and uncertain – questions we face is whether rapid technological developments in domains such as robotics, artificial intelligence and telepresence will lead to substantial unemployment.
Pew Internet has just launched a very interesting report AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs which delves into this topic by drawing on almost 2,000 experts who responded to the question:
They distilled the responses into positive and negative perspectives as well as points of agreement:
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Concept video: The Future of Work
By Ross DawsonA while ago at Future Exploration Network we created the Future of Work Framework to provide a high-level overview of how the world of work is shifting.
Over the past year I have used the framework extensively as a starting point for executive briefings and strategy workshops on the strategic implications of the rapidly changing world of work.
However the static visual can be hard to interpret on its own, so we have now created a short video that delves into and narrates the framework.
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The Future of Healthcare: Power shifting to the patient
By Ross DawsonRoss Dawson recently did the opening keynote speech at Australasian Long-term Health Conditions Conference in Auckland, New Zealand.
NZ Doctor reported on Dawson’s keynote in an article titled Technology shifts the ‘power’ to patients:
Technology is driving a shift of power from institutions and professions towards consumers and individuals, according to futurist Ross Dawson.
A keynote speaker at the Australasian Long-Term Conditions conference being held in Auckland today, 29 July, and tomorrow, 30 July, Mr Dawson wowed delegates with examples of technology changing the way we live and work.
In one case, the brain of a paralysed woman was hardwired to a robotic arm and by thinking, she was able to instruct the arm to pick up a mug so she could drink through the straw.
By 2017, half the people in the world will have smartphones and half will have downloaded a medical app, Mr Dawson says.
Smartphones and other portable devices such as smart-watches, essentially powerful computers, can gather real-time health information.
That’s putting power with the consumer, Mr Dawson says.
The article goes on to describe how social media and smartphones are shifting power in health:
Social media and smartphones are driving the shift of power and increasingly consumers have expectations of good service, irrespective of who is delivering it.
Mr Dawson spoke of smart homes, wired to understand the health needs of occupants, sensing whether someone was in trouble and reacting accordingly.
Such technology would enable people to live longer in their own homes before needing rest home care.
The article goes on to look at Dawson’s comments on remote work, monitoring patients’ medicine-taking, and changing health behaviors.
More details can be found in the complete article.
Keynote slides: The Future of Healthcare
By Ross DawsonYesterday I gave the opening keynote at the Australasian Longterm Health Conditions Conference in Auckland on The Future of Healthcare.
A conference report in NZ Doctor said that “Mr Dawson wowed delegates with examples of technology changing the way we live and work”.
The primary theme of my keynote was that power and control is shifting to the individual, an absolutely necessary shift in the world of health, and beyond.
Below are my slides. As always, my visual presentations are designed to support my keynote, not to be useful by themselves, but I share these in case they are are useful for attendees or others. The actual presentation includes quite a few embedded videos that show up as images in these slides.
Business transformation: an ongoing process of shifting to more open organizations
By Ross DawsonA recent article in CMO.com titled Telcos Undertake Customer-Focused Transformation shared some of my thoughts on the realities of business transformation. The article opens:
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Agencies must adapt to a marketing world based on open systems
By Ross DawsonJohn Winsor, CEO of crowdsourcing-based advertising agency Victors & Spoils and Chief Innovation Officer at global marketing conglomerate Havas, has long been an innovator and provocateur in agency world.
He gave the keynote at the Future of Crowdsourcing Summit I ran in San Francisco and Sydney in 2010, and his agency was featured as a case study of crowd business models in my book Getting Results From Crowds.
John has just published an excellent article on HBR Blogs titled The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions.
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The future of offices: facilitating interaction and making work fun
By Ross DawsonLast week I was interviewed on the Daily Edition TV program about the future of offices.
Click on the image below to see a video of the interview.
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