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ThrowForward Thursday 170: My AI assistant chooses who I vote for

graeme

Nov 71 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 169: The End of Company Emails

graeme

Nov 11 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 168: The Day The Internet Dies

graeme

Oct 261 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 167: The Talking Robots are Human Controlled

graeme

Oct 191 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 165: Smartphone Innovation (seems a bit stuck to me)

graeme

Oct 101 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 164: Clones: Copy Yourself

graeme

Sep 191 min read

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,...

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ThrowForward Thursday 162: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended

graeme

Sep 51 min read

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,...

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ThrowForward Thursday 161: The Death of Outsourced Procurement

graeme

Aug 291 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 159: Human/Robot Bionics

graeme

Aug 161 min read

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....

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ThrowForward Thursday 158: France Bans Energy Drinks (future scenario)

graeme

Aug 81 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday: Ep 157: Vocal Biomarker Disease Detection

graeme

Aug 11 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 149: The path to AGI

graeme

May 91 min read

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...

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Throwforward Thursday 148: Download data to our brains

graeme

May 21 min read

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,...

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ThrowForward Thursday 147: Digital Democracy 2052

graeme

Apr 251 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 145: Phytomining (extracting minerals and metals from plants)

graeme

Apr 111 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 144: Future Experiments in Government

graeme

Apr 41 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 143: LAMs: Large ACTION Models and the future of smartphones

graeme

Mar 281 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 141: No More Plastic

graeme

Mar 141 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 139: Robot Window Washers

graeme

Feb 291 min read

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...

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ThrowForward Thursday 138: Chatbot sued by owner

graeme

Feb 221 min read

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...

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