by Graeme Codrington | Oct 24, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Imagine logging into your web browser and there’s just nothing: no websites anywhere. You check your internet connection, and that seems fine. Your phone seems to be working. Except most of the apps are showing error messages, and there are just no websites....
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 17, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
The near future of so-called autonomous humanoid robots is not quite what we imagine. Come with me to 2029, when a dark side of the robotic world becomes reality. The robots we will deploy in care homes and kindergartens – those humanoid robots who look after...
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 10, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
It’s sometime in the future, and the next version of your favourite smartphone has just been released. Once again, the marketing hype is astounding, but the reality is disappointing. What did they say: it’s a few millimetres smaller (or bigger), and...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 26, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Imagine what the world would look like if we all had the data about our genetic makeup, and we could see the many multiple ways our genetics shape who we are and what we are capable of. Imagine that gender wasn’t the issue it is today as we think of the...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 19, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
Sometime in the future, we will develop the technologies to allow us to create copies of humans. But that’s probably a long time in the future. More practically, we should be able to copy the way that people think, and digitise their personas, styles, knowledge...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 12, 2024 | Future Trends, Throw Forward Thursday
It’s September 2082, and we mark the 50th anniversary of the official start of what has become The Great 50-Year Global Drought. Cities have been emptied, country borders changed, wars fought and entire economies gutted… and there seems to be no end in...
