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Certified Strategic Foresight Practitioner, and member of the Association of Professional Futurists. I’ve been podcasting for 3 years on future technologies and their impacts on businesses, individuals, and society in general. I’ve also worked as an innovation consultant on future of work and Industry 4.0 projects for 5 years.
I’ve been fascinated by emerging technologies and their future impacts on the world for over a decade. I’ve been particularly interested in technological unemployment and the future of work which led to the creation of this podcast’s first iteration (Automated – the focus of the first 100 episodes), but through the dozens of expert interviews realised that a wider perspective is fundamental to understanding how organisations of all sorts will be impacted by the coming future tech storm.
Hence the development of Future Tech and Foresight. Blending a wider scope of explored technologies with foresight capacities in an effort to deal with our Future Shock, and clarify what actions we can all strategically take in the future.
Why focus mainly on technology? Though many social, economic, environmental and even political changes are important for future change, I and many others argue that technological change is the most disruptive and creates the most predominant sense of Future Shock compared to any other.
Emerging Technologies, both well known and those more ‘out of sight’ will be the central focus of each episode. Each week insights on the benefits, consequences, challenges, opportunities, and possible future scenarios on a 10 year horizon of the various technologies will be explored.
The goal is to have this discussion in an easily accessible format to allow anyone interested to jump onto the ideas, and get valuable insights and practical actions to take in our ever changing technological future.
Guests will range from c-suite executives, leading researchers, independent professionals, skeptics and futurists.
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Out of the STEEP categories (Social, technological, economic, environmental, and political), technology is seen as not just the most disruptive but the most consistent change driver across time. In fact, irrespective of world wars, pandemics, or political parties in power, technological advancement trudges forward and re-writes our world in its wake.
And if we assume that Moore’s law will continue and that technologies will continue to develop at or near an exponential rate, the next 100 years will bring about greater changes to the world and how we live in it than the previous 100…or even 200-300 years.
And organisations of every sort are simply not ready for this disruption.
"A lot of future shocked people and future shocked institutions in our society are simply overwhelmed, and incapable of coping with the changes facing them"
In fact ninety percent of Fortune 500 firms have vanished since 1995, and a study from Washington University estimated that 40% of today’s Fortune 500 companies on the S&P 500 will no longer exist in 10 years. To go further, Mckinsey Consulting prepared a report which forecasted that by 2027 the average S&P company lifespan will shrink to just 12 years, compared to 24 years in 2016, and 33 years in 1964. And the trend most probably won’t stop there…
Given this, Strategic Foresight offers an opportunity to become aware of the relevant coming changes, and position an organisation to take advantage of those changes.