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Sep 16, 2016

Change: amplitude & frequency

The amplitude of changes in this era may be lower than in the last industrial revolution. But their frequency is much greater.

I read a really interesting critique of the idea of accelerated change this week. Actually, it was a rather…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 27, 2016

Phone Addiction

Deloitte’s regular survey of consumer use of mobile phones hit the headlines yesterday. As usual with such subjects, I got pulled…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 20, 2016

Service is universal, expectation is portable

Our experience of service in one context affects our expectation of service in every other, without boundaries between public and private.

How much does great service in one context affect your expectations for another?

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 8, 2016

Future language: precision matters

The better we can express ourselves, the higher the bandwidth of our future language interactions, whether they are with people or machines.

Life is (sadly) not like an Aaron Sorkin script. Whatever we may like to think about our own…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Aug 31, 2016

Space is the next start-up battleground

As the cost of accessing space falls, entrepreneurs will see new opportunities.

SES is soon to become the first company to use a ‘second hand’ rocket to send a payload…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 29, 2016

Solving whole problems

Listening to Yuval Noah Harari speak about his new book to the RSA recently, I heard him answer a question about…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 7, 2016

‘Do nothing’ is not an option

As a species we don’t like change much. I’m sure there are all sorts of arguments from evolutionary…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 1, 2016

Dear politician, what are you going to do about automation?

To avoid the negative effects of automation, the time to talk is now.

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 15, 2016

More than money

Can the next generation reinvent the social contract that has left valuable work underpaid?

Today I’m hosting an event for the ICAEW on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In preparation, we surveyed the thoughts of…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Sep 15, 2016

Complex evidence, simple decisions

Wherever there is great asymmetry between evidence volume and decision complexity, there is a role for a machine.

Which way should a pipe go around a building? These decisions are bound by a series of…

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