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ThrowForward Thursday 170: My AI assistant chooses who I vote for
Elections are messy, noisy and can overwhelm voters with too much information and too many choices. In the future, it could make sense...
graeme
Nov 7, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 169: The End of Company Emails
Don't get too excited by the title - it's not quite what you think. In the future, it is possible that companies will not supply us with...
graeme
Nov 1, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 168: The Day The Internet Dies
Imagine logging into your web browser and there's just nothing: no websites anywhere. You check your internet connection, and that seems...
graeme
Oct 26, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 167: The Talking Robots are Human Controlled
The near future of so-called autonomous humanoid robots is not quite what we imagine. Come with me to 2029, when a dark side of the...
graeme
Oct 19, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward 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...
graeme
Oct 10, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 164: Clones: Copy Yourself
They're coming (as you will see, mine has already arrived ;-). But the clones of the near future won't actually be copies of our bodies,...
graeme
Sep 19, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 162: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended
Sports News Headlines for 4 September 2039: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended Just ahead of the first African Olympic Games in 2040,...
graeme
Sep 5, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 161: The Death of Outsourced Procurement
More of a hope than a prediction, this episode of ThrowForward Thursday has a rant warning attached, as we imagine a future where...
graeme
Aug 29, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward 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....
graeme
Aug 16, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward 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...
graeme
Aug 8, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday: Ep 157: Vocal Biomarker Disease Detection
This is the start of Season 5 of ThrowForward Thursday. Welcome to 2029, where a weekly 15 second recording of your voice is used to...
graeme
Aug 1, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 149: The path to AGI
Come with me to the future, where we realise that Artificial General Intelligence is not just an improvement on Generative AI but...
graeme
May 9, 20241 min read
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Throwforward Thursday 148: Download data to our brains
Imagine a world where the boring parts of learning - the dumping data into our brains - is all done easily using neural transfers,...
graeme
May 2, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 147: Digital Democracy 2052
Imagine the Indian elections in 2052 taking just 5 minutes to process, rather than the 6 weeks it takes this year. The vision is of...
graeme
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward 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...
graeme
Apr 11, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 144: Future Experiments in Government
As we watch elections in 2024 spanning nearly 70 countries and 4.2 billion people, one thing is clear: the current systems are not...
graeme
Apr 4, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 143: LAMs: Large ACTION Models and the future of smartphones
ChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok and all the other Generative AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with our...
graeme
Mar 28, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 141: No More Plastic
We 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...
graeme
Mar 14, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 139: Robot Window Washers
It's not a horror movie, with spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings. This is the future of the $40 billion window...
graeme
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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ThrowForward Thursday 138: Chatbot sued by owner
A 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...
graeme
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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