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Informing Choices Mini-Pod

With exponential change driving an uncertain and complex future, considering how megatrends, trends, weak signals, and wild cards could impact life, society, and business is becoming crucial to developing insight to the future, but also to reinforcing our organisations’ agility and resilience. This is a podcast designed to provide insight to how we make sense of a radically different tomorrow by exploring "the future of" different topics. Podcast host Steve Wells talks to domain experts and

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00:32:33

Deepfakes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2024/01/18

Deepfakes are synthetic media that have been digitally manipulated, often using artificial intelligence and machine learning, to make it appear as if someone is saying or doing something they never did. To achieve this, a person's face or voice is superimposed onto another person's body or audio recording. Deepfakes – like pretty much any technology family - can be used for a variety of purposes, both good and bad. Some common uses of deepfakes include entertainment, art, education, but

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00:22:56

The Evolution of the Identity Economy with Gina...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2024/01/08

Identity economics is a branch of economics that explores how our identities influence our economic decisions. It argues that people can be motivated by a desire to maintain a consistent sense of self, which in turn means that our identities can play a role in determining our choices about work, consumption, and other economic activities. So how can generative AI – and other technologies and change drivers – impact the evolution of an identity economy across life, society, and enterprise? Today,

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00:43:36

Generative AI – An Exploration of Alternative Futures...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2024/01/04

In this third episode of a mini-series in which Global Futurist and Metaverse Strategist Sylvia Gallusser and I are exploring the future of media, news, and content creation we explore three scenarios from 2050: Frugal AI – AI for greater good, characterised by effective regulation, with personal identity safety a priority; Tech Supercharged World - with lots of immersion, interactive assets, fully automated content creation, and the harnessing of identity; and The Reality Continuum – A

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00:25:00

The Future of Media and News – The Evolution of...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/11/01

This is the second of three episodes in which Global Futurist & Metaverse Strategist Sylvia Gallusser and I are exploring the future of media, news, and the identity economy. Last time, we explored the context of AI development focusing on generative AI, then looked at the opportunities and risks content creation through lens of journalism. Today, we will dig deeper into the opportunities and challenges of using generative AI and look further into the future and explore three scenarios from

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00:32:04

The Intelligent Age with David Smith

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/10/26

Deloitte’s Tony Reeves characterised the Intelligent Age as “the Age of With, where every human works with intelligent machines in every activity. It merges the digital, physical and human worlds, collaborating across the boundaries of each to improve performance and empower smarter humans to achieve more at incredible speed.” In this episode, our questions are on the characterisation of the Intelligent Age, what it might look like in 2050, the significant technologies of the time, and how this

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00:33:56

The Future of Media and News – The Role of Generative...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/10/25

For some years, the ongoing and accelerating development of artificial intelligence has been eye- and imagination-catching. And now we have a number of generative AI models that have burst onto the scene over the last year or so. Generative artificial intelligence - refers to the use of AI to create new content; like text, images, music, audio, and video. Generative AI works by using a machine learning model to learn the patterns and relationships in a dataset of human-created content. It then uses

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00:23:00

Life After Net Zero with Steve Wells

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/10/04

With recent controversy surrounding the Government’s apparent backing off from the pace at which the UK will achieve net zero by 2050, I wanted to take the opportunity to explore the issue. But rather than jump on the scare band-wagon, wanted to offer a carrot – if that’s not mixing too many metaphors. While the threat of climate change-fuelled catastrophe might scare people into action, perhaps that should be considered in parallel with the benefits of achieving net zero. So in this episode of the

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00:34:16

Technology Blurring the Boundary between Science and...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/09/27

There comes a point when the boundaries of science and magic seem to blur. At the same time, we can perhaps see the potential of science and technology to deliver the tools and applications of the future is limited only by our imagination. So in this episode of the Informing Choices Mini-Pod, with the help of strategic communicator and futurist Gina Clifford, we will explore cutting-edge ideas, potential innovations, mind-bending advancements, and awe-inspiring discoveries that seem straight out

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00:35:33

The Office of the Future: 2050 and Beyond with...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/09/19

Since the pandemic, remote and hybrid working have become part of the workplace planning lexicon. But with the debate about the pros and cons of working away from the office still in full flight, change is also being fuelled by increasingly sophisticated automation technologies, which in turn offers the attractive potential of significant cost savings afforded by downsizing office accommodation. To explore the role of flexibility in establishing successful workplaces, developments in material

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00:21:54

Digital Twins with Alex Whittington

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/09/13

A "Digital Twin" is a virtual model of a process, product, or service. The pairing of the virtual and physical worlds allows analysis of data collected to predict potential issues before they even occur; preventing downtime, developing new opportunities, and even plan for the future by using simulations, for example. To explore digital twins and their societal implications, I am joined on this episode of the podcast by Alex Whittington, a futurist from the Tata Consulting Services Future

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00:22:48

The Path to Technotopia or Climate Change Fuelled...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/09/06

It’s not uncommon for us to consider a positive outcome in the future, or a negative one. The utopian view or the dystopian view. But the likelihood is of a future with both positive and negative elements, much like we have seen in the present and the past. Today, we are exploring the dichotomy between advanced technology changing everything for the better and a world in chaos because of climate change. Will we harness these amazing technology advances to resolve our challenges in the second half

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00:03:06

Introduction to the Informing Choices Mini-Pod Series...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/08/29

In this new series of the podcast, I want to look farther into the future with my guests; to 2050 and beyond. So I will be exploring what our world might look like in the second half of this century; consider the roles that innovative technologies might play in a re-invented future; and what major changes we could see that would have a profound impact across life, society, and business. The first episode of this new series drops on Wednesday 6th September. You can catch this and all episodes of the

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00:15:30

Is kindness the leadership competence of the future?...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/02/07

Jacinda Ardern’s decision to step down as New Zealand’s Prime Minister came as a surprise to many. She became the world’s youngest female head of government when she was elected prime minister in 2017 at 37. She has led New Zealand through the Covid-19 pandemic, and a series of disasters including the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, and the White Island volcanic eruption. Asked how she would like New Zealanders to remember her leadership, Ardern said “as someone who always tried to

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00:12:14

Human Adaptation to be Always Human with Joana Lenkova

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/01/19

The Rise of the Machines has a bit of Terminator feel to it, but as increasing automation plays a bigger role across life, society, and business, it’s hard to ignore the potential of AI and other automation technologies taking control. But as well as the trepidation about dystopian potential, these same technologies offer incredible opportunity to enhance humanity. The question is, what could it mean to be more human in an ever more technology enabled world? And how might we as humans need to adapt

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00:13:16

Extending Our Reality with Sylvia Gallusser

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/01/17

Like a number of what we have come to consider as transformative technologies, the metaverse offers incredible potential to change how we access experiences, conduct business, respond to marketing messages, and fight gigantic battles to save the earth! It relies on the effective combination of multiple technologies to enable truly immersive experiences almost anywhere, blurring the boundaries between science and technology and magic. To explore the opportunities presented by the metaverse, I am

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00:13:25

Fungi & Mycelium to the Rescue with Gina Clifford

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/01/12

Right now, mushrooms are in the spotlight as a meat substitute, medicine, bioremediation of oil and toxic chemicals, leather alternative, plastic alternative for some packaging, and mycelium networks in forests for carbon sequestration. They might be one of the most potent organisms to help us combat climate change. To explore the opportunities presented by mushrooms and mycelium to help resolve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, I am joined by strategic communicator and futurist Gina

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00:16:16

Convergence of Trends in the Future Workplace with...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/01/10

The confluence of trends such as demographic shifts, automation technologies such as AI and Machine Learning, together with developments in reducing age-related cognitive impairments are likely to have a dramatic effect on future workplaces. To explore these factors I am joined by Strategic Foresight Advisor and Organizational Change Management and Communications consultant Rob Caldera. You can learn more about Rob and his work by connecting with him as follows: LinkedIn

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00:12:40

Broadening & Combining AI with David Wood

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/01/05

One of the most persistent ideas about artificial intelligence, is that there’s a clear distinction between what many commentators refer to as narrow AI and the goal of more general artificial intelligence, otherwise often referred to as artificial general intelligence (AGI). But there is evidence to suggest that a new perspective would be helpful in fostering balanced discussion on the technology’s evolution now. The progress in the development of AI with wider application begs the question; “Is

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00:08:14

Connected Stores with Alexandra Whittington

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/01/03

To start the New Year, I am speaking to 6 futurist friends of the podcast - Alex Whittington, David Wood, Gina Clifford, Joana Lenkova, Rob Caldera, and Sylvia Gallusser to explore their thoughts on the new technologies, ideas, and developments that may emerge in 2023 that will have proven to be significant when we look back from 2033 – in 10 years’ time. The convergence of digital technology and habits formed through the pandemic have changed how we shop. Click and collect, scan and pay, and

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00:02:52

2023 Developments We’ll Look Back on in 2033 -...

Informing Choices Mini-Pod ·

2023/01/02

We often see news items concerning the development of new technologies such as AI, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, and the metaverse and their potential future deployment. The implications across enterprise and our private lives are often uncertain and depending on one’s point of view represent a possible journey to dystopia or utopia. The journey can be framed as a conflict as humanity versus technology, or an opportunity to achieve super abundance. But which technologies, ideas,

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