Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
The future is arriving faster than ever. Graeme Codrington highlights key issues we need to consider to prepare for tomorrow's workplace today, including audio feed of his weekly ThrowForward Thursday series.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 198
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Throwforward Thursday 44: High tech Plumbers
Plumbers (and all the tradespeople) of the future will be high tech. Drones, robots, and more will be integrated into what they do. (PS. Tradespeople are always busy, never out of work, and will be …
Throwforward Thursday 43: Gender and the future of the Olympics
This week we jump to a future when sports are no longer categorised simply into "men" and "women". I refer to this as "gender" as that's the common label, but more technically, it is sexual biology t…
Throwforward Thursday 42: The Olympics and Climate Change
Sports that are played outdoors and can be affected by the weather will be impacted by climate change. Whether that's not having enough snow at the winter Olympics, or not enough water at the summer …
Throwforward Thursday 41: Bionic & Robotic Olympics
Let's talk about the future of the Olympics (Part 1 of 3) and imagine sports competitions with no restrictions. Competitors can do whatever they want to their bodies to enhance them and get maximum p…
Throwforward Thursday 40: Space Junk
Dateline: June 2032 Headline: Three major incidents in space highlight a growing problem of space junk We've polluted every part of the planet, and now we are polluting space as well. Debris from br…
Throwforward Thursday 39: Drone Ambulances and First Responders
Throwforward Thursday 38: AI Investors
Investors of the future may very well prefer to rely solely on machine-driven trading decisions, with stockbrokers marketing the fact that "no humans were involved in managing this portfolio".
When i…
Throwforward Thursday 37: Smart Medicines
Smart homes of the future will be much better equipped to look after our health and provide real-time feedback on a multitude of health and medical related issues. From smart plasters to asthma detec…
Throwforward Thursday 36: Smart Bathrooms
The 'Internet of Things' linked via the Cloud to AI-driven predictive data analytics healthcare systems... is a jargon-filled sentence, but also the future of our bathrooms. Smart toothbrushes to ana…
Throwforward Thursday 35: How to use the TFT videos and podcasts
In the final episode of our holiday mini-series on watching the future, we talk about three key ways you can use Throwforward Thursday videos and podcasts with your team. We want to spark your imagin…
Throwforward Thursday 34: Don't Just Rebuild; Re Imagine
In the 5th episode of our holiday mini-series we look at the importance of adaptive strategies, having a strategy to develop adaptability and our need to not just rebuild and repair what Covid has da…
Throwforward Thursday 33: Future Backwards Thinking
We continue our mini holiday series with a look at one of tools in the futurist's toolkit: future backwards thinking. Instead of being constrained by current realities, we can leap into the future an…
Throwforward Thursday 32: Entertain Ridiculous Ideas
Our holiday mini-series continues with a thought from Prof. JiM Dator, a leading futurist: "All useful ideas about the future must appear ridiculous... at first." You and your team need to stretch y…
Throwforward Thursday 31: Five minutes from the future meetings
The second in our special holiday series on how to use Throwforward Thursday videos talks about getting your whole team involved in thinking about the future.
Throwforward Thursday 30: Watching the future (AKA 'We were right about Amazon Go')
Throwforward Thursday 29: Neuralink
As requested by one of our listeners (via AskAboutTheFuture.com), here is some information about Neuralink - what it is, what it might do, and when it's likely to be available.
Throwforward Thursday 28: Robots in War (The dogs of future wars)
In the very near future, the world's militaries will be incorporating even more robotic and AI tech into their armaments, including face tracking drones with weapons, robotic exoskeletons and robots …
Throwforward Thursday 27: Robotic Exoskeletons
Bonus: Throwforward Thursday 26 - No more Plastic
Sometime in the future - the sooner the better - we need to stop using plastic. It's literally killing the world, and us.