ThrowForward Thursday 165: Smartphone Innovation (seems a bit stuck to me)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Release Date: 10/10/2024
What if... we banned phones in restaurants (like we banned smoking) - ThrowForward Thursday 185
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
In the 1980s and 90s, people smoked in restaurants while the rest of us were eating. Then we made a change. We literally changed a global culture, made new rules, and people (fairly) quickly changed their habits. We could do that again in public spaces - banning phones. Why not?
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Why everyone wants a piece of Greenland - ThrowForward Thursday 184
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
I think I know why Donald Trump wants Greenland. But why does everyone else see it as strategically important? It's not what you think. But it will change the world. Listen to this week's episode to find out more.
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What it means to be human in an age of Robots - ThrowForward Thursday 183
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If robots can be developed to run ultra trail marathons and compete in sporting events, then why should humans even bother anymore? <P>Maybe it's less about being better than someone else, and more about finding out where one's own limits are. Maybe that's the essence of being human. <P>In this episode of ThrowForward Thursday we ask how advanced humanoid robots are rewiring not just our view of automation and technology, but also our view of ourselves. <P>Also, as a bonus... keep an eye on my progress towards running one of the world's toughest trail marathons, the Otter...
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The Enhanced Games - ThrowForward Thursday 182
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Faster, higher, stronger - the Olympic motto that inspires the best athletes to push themselves to the limit. But what if we changed where those limits are? What if we allowed humans to not just rely on good genetics and intensive training, but also on chemical, medical and biomechanical enhancements? The team at The Enhanced Games are aiming to answer this question in a few weeks time in Las Vegas - see for details. Is this the future of sport? Or are we crossing a line we should not cross? <P>Maybe a more important question is what sorts of human enhancements might be valuable...
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MEET MY DIGITAL TWIN: ThrowForward Thursday 181
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Our team at TomorrowToday have developed my digital twin: a ChatGPT agent that contains all of our books, white papers, blogs and videos from the last twenty years of work. <P>You can now access this GPT agent for free (as long as you have a ChatGPT account), and ask questions about the future, thinking like a futurist, foresight, leadership, and innovation. It's available at <P>And if you and your team are impressed by what a GenAI version of my past work can do, then contact the real, human me and set up a time to chat about how our team can really add...
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ThrowForward Thursday 180: What if our Medicines Stop Working?
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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
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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. ...
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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