ThrowForward Thursday 165: Smartphone Innovation (seems a bit stuck to me)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Release Date: 10/10/2024
ThrowForward Thursday 180: What if our Medicines Stop Working?
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
In Season 6 of ThrowForward Thursday, we are revisiting some of our previous predictions and finding out what's happening in the world right now. This one is scary. <BR>In Episode 66 (see ) we talked about the end of antibiotics. Just this past month, in October 2025, the World Health Organization released a research report on antibiotic and AMR resistance, and it's getting worse and worse (see: ). <BR>We need to urgently use fewer antibiotics, giving science a chance to keep up with the mutations of the diseases we are fighting. We need to think not just about "quick...
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ThrowForward Thursday 179: Cape Town Marathon Cancelled
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Sport can't fight weather <BR>The 2025 edition of the Cape Town Marathon was cancelled due to strong winds making the course unsafe. It's not the first major sporting event to be affected by weather; and it won't be the last. <BR>Back in 2020, I was due to run the London Marathon. It was cancelled due to Covid, and we were encouraged to run a 42.2km distance in the 24 hours of the day of the marathon to earn our finisher's medal. I did that in the Covid-emptied streets of Johannesburg. <BR>We've talked about this before in ThrowForward Thursday:...
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ThrowForward Thursday 178: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Post Truth World
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
What if the truth could be edited? <BR>In a world of AI deepfakes, fake news, and manipulated media, how do we know what’s real anymore? Blend science fiction and foresight in this mind-bending episode of ThrowForward Thursday, inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. <BR>Douglas Adams’ classic story predicted today’s world - crowdsourced “truths,” social networks, and reality distortion fields long before they existed. <BR>In this episode, Graeme unpacks what The Hitchhiker’s Guide can teach us about: <UL><LI>- AI-generated...
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ThrowForward Thursday 177: Dealing with a Post-Truth World
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
In a world filled with AI slop, fake news, photoshopped photos and AI generated videos, how do we work out what is true, what is real, and what is not? <BR>In this week's ThrowForward Thursday episode, we look at six ways we can respond to a post-truth world.
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ThrowForward Thursday 176: Deep Fakes Revisited
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Deep fakes have been around for a while - in fact, way back in 2020, I was one of the first people I knew to feature in a deep fake video (it wasn't very good, but it was a sign of things to come). <BR>The era of fake videos has arrived much faster than we thought we would. It's here, right now. We need to learn how to navigate a world in which we cannot trust what we hear, read or see. It's sad, but it's the reality (or is it real at all?). <BR>This week, we revisit some of our predictions about the future of deep fakes and fake news and show you what's happening right now. ...
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ThrowForward Thursday 175: Season 6 Introduction
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Welcome to the new season of ThrowForward Thursday. Each week, we will be looking back over the 175 episodes we've recorded in the last four years, and seeing which of our future predictions are starting to come true - what we got right, and wrong, and what it tells us about the world we live in today. Join us every Thursday for a Tour Guide to the Future.
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ThrowForward Thursday 174: Imagine - end of 2024 message
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Imagine... the future is imaginable. And our imaginations help to set the tone for how we engage with the future, and the world around us. So, at the end of 2024, let's imagine the best possible future we can - whatever that might mean for you. For me, it would be a world without war. Thank you for your support and feedback on our scenarios over the past year. We plan to come back in the new year with a whole new format for these scenarios - we are excited to share that with you. But first... take a break. Have a refreshing and rejuvenating holiday, and we will see you in 2025. ...
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ThrowForward Thursday 173: CEOs are not safe
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
On December 4, 2024, the CEO of one of America's largest healthcare insurers was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan. Angry people, living in a world that is filled with inequality and feeling squeezed on every side, will eventually snap. This is not something we want, nor is it a call to arms. But it is a possible future scenario that CEOs of large companies might need to be as careful of their personal security as many politicians currently are. The antidote is to build future-proof businesses that see doing good as good for business. This isn't just a cute tagline - it is a core pillar...
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ThrowForward Thursday 172: A Data Center sues town for all its water
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
It could happen. Sometime in the future. Data centres use an incredible amount of electricity and water. Towns that incentivise these data centres to locate nearby for jobs and tax benefits might find themselves dealing with unrealistic demands for power and water - to the point where a data centre could sue the town to continue providing them with water even if it means the people living in the town get cut off. For more details of just how much power and water data centres use, listen to Paris Marx’s 4 part mini series on the Tech Won’t Save Us Podcast: Our team at...
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ThrowForward Thursday 171: The 15 hour work week
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Nearly 100 years, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 we would all be working just 15 hours a week. If only, right? What went wrong? There is an answer, but you're probably not going to like it. We need to change the whole system to ensure we are not crushed by a system that seeks relentless productivity, endless activity and soul sucking workloads. Maybe the 15 hour work week is an idealistic fantasy. Or maybe it's a motivating goal to drive a change in our current world of work? ABOUT GRAEME CODRINGTON Speaker, author and expert on the future...
info_outlineIt'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 disappointing. What did they say: it's a few millimetres smaller (or bigger), and slightly lighter, and the camera has some extra megapixels and zoom, and ... that's it?
Smartphones should be curing cancer already. There's more computing power in my smartphone than existed on the entire planet when I was born half a century ago.
As much as we live in a technology world, innovation seems to have stalled a bit. We've got multi-billion dollar companies competing with each other for incremental improvements in features that are already good enough. What we really want is innovation that excites and delights, that makes a real difference to our lived experience, and that changes the world.
This week's ThrowForward Thursday is bordering on a rant, but it has an important point to make. What is your company doing to create new products and services that excite and delight your customers and clients? We need to uplift our innovation goals and aim to do much more than merely optimise stuff that's already good enough.
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