by Graeme Codrington | May 2, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Imagine a world where the boring parts of learning – the dumping data into our brains – is all done easily using neural transfers, augmentation and technology assistants. What’s left is for the human brain to do what it does best: creative thinking,...
by Graeme Codrington | Apr 18, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Ageing musicians still touring, and ageing fans still wanting to go to their concerts, might prefer an afternoon start time rather than waiting until 9pm or later for the main event. It’s not just Festivals that should schedule afternoon concerts – maybe...
by Graeme Codrington | Apr 11, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
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 least metal ions that we can in turn extract from the plants. If we can do this at scale, we can use phytomining to get the...
by Graeme Codrington | Apr 4, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
As we watch elections in 2024 spanning nearly 70 countries and 4.2 billion people, one thing is clear: the current systems are not working. Voters are not happy and have little enthusiasm for the politicians they can choose between (if they have any real choices at...
by Graeme Codrington | Mar 28, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
ChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok, and all the other Generative AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with our technology using natural language. Now we need to get our devices to understand the heuristics of requests and actions we ask them...
by Graeme Codrington | Mar 21, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Water scarcity is becoming a critical issue globally. As the world gets more and more water stressed, those who control water supplies in rivers, lakes, and dams, will exercise more power and restrict access to water to those downstream. This could lead to conflict...
