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...
True Sustainability: Moving Big Business Beyond the Green Facade
In this video sketch, Apple stages a conversation between Tim Cook and Mother Nature. Of course, it punts Apple’s decarbonisation credentials and commitments for 2030, but still, it’s a wonderful demonstration of what big business can do to be a sustainable force of...
5 for Friday – 23rd February 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. ● Intelligent Advances: Navigating the Rapid Advancements...
Throw Forward Thursday: AI Selected Life-Partner (A Valentine’s Day suggestion)
Would you trust an AI-driven algorithm to help choose your life partner? If people were honest about the data they entered into these systems, and genuine in their desire to find a true life-partner match, this would definitely be an improvement on the basically...
Intelligent Advances: Navigating the Rapid Advancements in Technology, AI, and Automation
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and global futurist, Dean van Leeuwen. As people look around, they can see we are living in an era of rapid technological evolution, marked by 'intelligent advancements.’ The digital revolution, led in part by...
5 for Friday – 16th February 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. ● 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 Every year MIT looks...
Throw Forward Thursday: Workplace Monitoring
In the future, we will use smart devices and even implants to monitor our every move, maybe even our thoughts too. How will we use this data? It could be for Big Brother style management of our lives, or it could be for our benefit and wellbeing. That will be up to...
The Importance of Unlearning
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and leadership thinker, Keith Coats. History is littered with personal and corporate examples of those whose failure to read the future proved costly and in some cases fatal. We cling to our old ideas and...
5 for Friday – 9th February 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. • TomorrowToday partners with 1 % for the Planet...
Throw Forward Thursday: Hyper-personalised Peak-performance Workplaces
Imagine arriving at the office, and the lighting and aircon are just perfect, there's exactly the right ambient noise, the desk is set up perfectly, the food and drinks easily available are precisely what you need... everything is set up just right to ensure you can...