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Sex with Robots

As some of you know, I do a couple of talks under the Title of Sex with Robots. Mostly it’s about our evolving relationship to technology and our growing estrangement from both ourselves and each other. I also point out how the best source for imagining the future has been the arts/entertainment with special reference [...]

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Printing Food – Things that could happen in the next 10 years (3)

Some of you may remember the original Star Trek series in which the food for the crew was “materialized” in a machine that looked something like a microwave. Well now we’ll be printing food. According to dezeen, “3D printing expert Janne Kyttanen has produced prototype printed pasta, breakfast cereal and burgers to demonstrate how advances [...]

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Scouting the Future

How can leaders neutralize decision-making paralysis in the face of a complex and ever changing context? When it comes to complexity and change, we are in a class five white water rapid. Unexpected events happen so rapidly that we often feel our raft is about to flip. Just think of the massive changes we have [...]

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The World in a Strand

The idea was conceived in a pub. Why not store the world’s digital data on strands of DNA? After all, they last practically forever as attested to by DNA samples from Mammoth and Neanderthal finds. And, according to the Economist article, Test Tube Data, their data storage idea could store all of the world’s existing [...]