ThrowForward Thursday: Phytomining (extracting minerals and metals from plants)
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 metals...
Looking into the Future with Today’s Leaders
The world we live and work in right now is characterised by complexity, uncertainty and turbulence. This makes choosing and implementing strategy more difficult than it’s ever been. And thinking like a futurist and being able to prepare your teams and organisations...
5 for Friday – 5th April 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● It’s Earth Month and we’ve partnered with 1% for the...
Throw Forward Thursday: Future Experiments in Government
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...
Bionic Business: The Future of People and Work.
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and Future of People expert Buhle Dlamini. Beyond Ironman Fantasies: When we hear the word “bionic”, images of Ironman from the Marvel films start to flood our minds as we think of humans with superhuman...
5 for Friday – 29th March 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● Get two FREE Future Scenarios from our Strategic...
Throw Forward Thursday: LAMs: Large ACTION Models and the future of smartphones
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...
How to practically leverage the Strategic Imagination Toolkit for your team’s success.
In an era characterised by continual and disruptive change, cultivating strategic imagination has become an imperative skill. In this week's video below, Graeme demonstrates how to practically leverage TomorrowToday's Strategic Imagination Toolkit with your team....
5 for Friday – 22nd March 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● How AI could save (not destroy) education by Jude...
Throw Forward Thursday: Water Wars
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 -...
How AI could save (not destroy) education
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and founder of the Future Smart Parent club, Jude Foulston. Imagine a world where every student has access to their own personal tutor. A tutor that guides the students' learning at their own pace, based on...
5 for Friday – 15th March 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● Tomorrow’s World Today Explore the key skills and...
Throw Forward Thursday: No More Plastic
In our lifetimes we must find a way to end the use of plastic as we use it now so that we stop adding more toxins and pollution to our planet. From innovative cleanup projects to eco-friendly solutions, there are lots of ways that we can make a difference....
Throw Forward Thursday: No More Ships at Sea
Imagine a world in which Rogue Waves made the oceans too dangerous for ships to sail, and we had to stop cruise liners and container ships from sailing. It would change our world as we know it. It is an extreme and alarmist scenario, with one of the worst cases for...
Strategic Imagination Toolkit
Strategic Imagination: Your capacity to envision future scenarios and opportunities for your organisation and self, while challenging conventional thinking about change. This involves rejecting the tendency to assess new innovations and opportunities through the lens...
5 for Friday – 8th March 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● Developing a Winning Attitude with Buhle Dlamini Dive...
Throw Forward Thursday: Robot Window Washers
Spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings? It looks like something from a sci-fi horror movie, but actually this is the future of the $40 billion window cleaning industry. Robotic window washers. They can do more than clean, though - they do...
5 Practical Tools for a Future Fit Business
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and leadership thinker, Keith Coats. This week Keith Coats shares some of the practical tools that we use at TomorrowToday to help our clients develop their future fitness, become more adaptable, and build the...
5 for Friday – 1st March 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● Unleashing Your Greatness In his presentation titled...
Throw Forward Thursday: Chatbot sued by owner
A company is suing its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. I wish I could make up a headline from the future that was better than this - it's actually a real story from February 2024 involving Air Canada. The practical lesson is that we...