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Throwforward Thursday 70: The end of emails
I don't know how far into the future we need to go before we find the end of emails, but in my opinion it can't come soon enough. Emails...
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Sep 8, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 69: The end of sex
More people - especially young people - around the world are choosing not to get married, not to have long-term relationships, not to...
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graeme
Sep 1, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 68: The end of sand
We use sand for pretty much everything we can see around us - including the glass in the screen you're watching this on. And we are...
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graeme
Aug 25, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 67: The end of Hotel Room Service (and a few things your company offers...)
Now that we can get food delivered to us from any restaurant to anywhere, we don't have to rely on the room service offered to us by the...
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graeme
Aug 18, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 66: The end of Antibiotics
Antibiotics changed our world 100 years ago, probably adding about 20 years to average lifespans as we dealt with infections and disease....
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graeme
Aug 11, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 65: The end of rush hour traffic
Why do we still have rush hour traffic - with EVERYONE trying to get to work and school at the SAME TIME every working day? It's 2022 and...
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graeme
Aug 5, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 64: The end of retirement (as we know it)
One of the dumbest things we do in business is force people to retire, simply because they hit a specific date in the calendar, even...
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graeme
Jul 28, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 63: The end of... meat from animals
Imagine a world in which we don't eat meat from animals. No, not a world with no meat, but a rather a world where our meat is grown in...
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graeme
Jul 25, 20221 min read
Easy Future Conversations 3: Investing 101 = Diversify (but in new ways)
In this mini-series of videos, my mate, Carel Nolte and I talk about the future of investment, the importance of wealth creation and I...
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graeme
Jul 21, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 62: The end of phobias
We are all afraid of something, whether it is snakes, spiders, sharks, the dark, heights or something else. Could technology provide...
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graeme
Jul 14, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 61: The end of... diamonds
There are a lot of diamonds in the world - a total of about 6 billion carats (weighing around a million kilograms), with around 140...
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graeme
Jul 1, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 60: The end of... investment brokers and fund managers
Sometime in the 2030s, artificial intelligence-driven algorithms will prove to be better at picking stocks and managing investment funds...
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graeme
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 59: The end of ... insects
In fact, this would be the end of EVERYTHING. There's an insect apocalypse happening at the moment. All around the world, studies are...
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graeme
Jun 19, 20221 min read
Throwfoward Thursday 58: The end of... chocolate (& 3 things we can do to avert potential disaster)
A few days late this week, Throwforward Thursday jumps to the year 2050, where we might have no more cocoa trees in the world. And that...
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graeme
Jun 9, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 57: The end of... series
This week we start a new series about things that are going to end in our lifetimes, and how that will impact the world we live and work...
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graeme
Jun 5, 20225 min read
Multipolarity: why understanding the war in Ukraine is so important for what happens next
This is the plan Vladimir Putin is obsessing over. On March 24 1999, in a plane high above the Atlantic, Yevgeni Primakov, the Russian...
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graeme
Jun 5, 20223 min read
What “thinking like a futurist” means – and why it’s so important for everyone to do
Futurists - or scenario planners, if you prefer - cannot predict the future. What we do is ‘intentionally build the capacity to see the...
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graeme
Jun 2, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 56: Xenobots - Living Robots
Made from the stem cells of the African Claw Frog, xenobots were created at the University of Vermont in 2020. They're tiny organisms...
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graeme
May 26, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 55: Natural born humans need not apply
Some jobs in the future will require special skills, restricted to those people who have agreed to augment their human skills with...
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graeme
May 19, 20221 min read
Throwforward Thursday 54: Artificial Ears and Eyes
Right now we are advancing our ability to fix problems with ears and eyes and replace broken parts to give sight and sound to people. In...
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