by Graeme Codrington | Dec 15, 2022 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Our weekly series into future trends suggests that we might have dedicated 3D print shops, or maybe 3D printers in local building supplies stores that will be able to print out any 3D design for you overnight. A few decades from now we will probably all have...
by Graeme Codrington | Dec 8, 2022 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
This week we imagine a future where restorative justice and rehabilitation takes precedence over retribution and the prison-industrial complex. It’s a dream, that doesn’t imagine any criminals (we wish), but rather a different way of dealing with them....
by Graeme Codrington | Dec 1, 2022 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Sometime very soon, we need to change our view of what “old age” looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older people will be happy living in. The simple version is that we need tech-enabled smart homes for seniors. Watch the...
by Graeme Codrington | Nov 24, 2022 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Imagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they’re healthier and living longer), where they get grandparent leave from their companies, and where we combine child and senior care in the same facilities. This is a...
by Graeme Codrington | Nov 17, 2022 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Every day, humans produce 2.4 quintillion bytes of data, and this doubles every two years or so at the moment. Most of this is now stored in “the cloud”, which might be invisible to us, but is actually in massive data warehouses all around the world. If...
by Graeme Codrington | Nov 10, 2022 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Imagine using the technologies we are currently developing to help us with voice recognition and real-time translation to be able to understand what animals are saying, and even talking to them in their own languages? This is a very real possibility by the 2040s. What...