Throw Forward Thursday: The End of Company Emails
Don't get too excited by the title - it's not quite what you think. In the future, it is possible that companies will not supply us with email addresses, but we will rather bring our own (just like we buy our own cars, phones and have your own personal cellphone...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Day the Internet Dies
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. This is...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Talking Robots are Human Controlled
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 our...
Throw Forward Thursday: Smartphone Innovation (seems a bit stuck to me)
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 slightly lighter,...
Throw Forward Thursday: Genetic Enhancement and Gender
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...
Throw Forward Thursday: Clones – Copy Yourself
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 and...
ThrowForward Thursday: The Great 50-year global drought
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 sight. This...
ThrowForward Thursday: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended
Sports News Headlines for 4 September 2039: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended Just ahead of the first African Olympic Games in 2040, the latest Olympic sport of Jet Pack Drone Racing has been dealt a blow as two more deaths results in the suspension of the...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Death of Outsourced Procurement
More of a hope than a prediction, this episode of ThrowForward Thursday has a rant warning attached, as we imagine a future where companies have stopped outsourcing their supplier management to procurement services that make it incredibly difficult to sign contracts,...
Throw Forward Thursday: Ancient Virus Pandemics
Breaking news in 2037: the thawing of Arctic ice releases a 40,000-year-old virus that doctors have never seen before. Another unintended consequence of global warming, and a reminder that our world is changing dramatically right now. How would your business respond...
Throw Forward Thursday: Human/Robot Bionics
'Bionic' means Humans and Technology not just working with each other but augmenting and even integrating to supercharge our outputs. There are three obvious ways this could happen: Robotic exoskeletons and human/robot hybrids Software and applications augmenting...
Throw Forward Thursday: France Bans Energy Drinks (future scenario)
Imagine a world where a government bans energy drinks if they are proven to be bad for public health, and people are abusing their impact and causing damage to themselves and others. This is not a prediction, just a scenario. The question for you and your company is...
Throw Forward Thursday: Vocal Biomarker Disease Detection
This is the start of Season 5 of ThrowForward Thursday. Welcome to 2029, where a weekly 15 second recording of your voice is used to diagnose a whole range of diseases and give early warnings of health problems in your body. This idea is based on the reality of recent...
Throw Forward Thursday: Introducing the TomorrowToday Podcast
The Tomorrow Today Podcast - a new podcast launched by the TomorrowToday team, focusing on mapping the future of business. The podcast builds on years of research about the future of work, providing insights on themes like leadership, organisational design, strategic...
Throw Forward Thursday: Data, data everywhere – Review of Season 4 and inspiration for the future
As we look to the future, the role of data in shaping our world is undeniable. For businesses, embracing this data-driven revolution is not just an option; it’s a necessity to thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Why is data so crucial? Because it informs...
ThrowForward Thursday: The path to AGI
Come with me to the future, where we realise that Artificial General Intelligence is not just an improvement on Generative AI but something different, developed on a different path. GenAI / LLMs are brilliant. They're amazing tools, taking the sum of human knowledge...
Throw Forward Thursday: Download data to our brains
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, problem-solving,...
Throw Forward Thursday: Rocking the Afternoon
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 every band...
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...
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...