Living and working in a 6G world

What new businesses and business models will emerge in a 6G world?

Living and working in a 6G worldSixth-generation (6G) wireless communications technology, expected by 2030, could offer the potential for truly transformative applications and functionality because of the higher capacity and lower delay time between sending and receiving voice or data over the network (latency). The anticipated microsecond latency of 6G communications will make it 1,000 times faster than the millisecond latency…

How artificial intelligence will change our world

The core technologies involved in AI are moving at breakneck speed

How artificial intelligence will change our worldWhen we think about the next two decades, two existential questions dominate the conversation among futurists and foresight researchers. The first is whether we can prevent the potentially devastating impacts of climate change. The second is what the relationship between technology, humans, and money might look like after 20 years of advancements in artificial intelligence…

We are just scratching the surface of metaverse activity

What are the opportunities for payments providers?

We are just scratching the surface of metaverse activityThe complexity of the purchasing process within the new generation of metaverses, coupled with lingering concerns over many aspects of crypto, are both acting as deterrents to most people entering the newer decentralized, blockchain-enabled, and crypto-based platforms such as Somnium Space and Axie Infinity. So what’s going on, and what are the opportunities for payments…

10 principles for future leaders

How to ensure you and your organizations are fit for the future

10 principles for future leadersPerhaps the biggest challenge facing leaders today is to ensure they can navigate themselves and their organizations through a complex and rapidly evolving future landscape. The reality is becoming clear: A good future-focused leader has to have a "futurist mindset." This means being capable of continuously looking over the horizon and constantly adjusting our present-day…

Ten key messages to navigating a crisis

How can we draw on the work of futurists and foresight professionals to enhance our responses to the current crisis and increase resilience against future shocks?

Ten key messages to navigating a crisisWithin the futurist community there is much hand wringing and frustration at the extent to which leaders, decision makers, and policy advisors have ignored past advice and countless preparedness studies for governments, businesses, and civil society. Since the 1960’s the stock in trade of much futurist work has been to advise on both the range…

10 shifts in business strategy that could have lasting impacts

Will new ways of organizational thinking and working take hold or be abandoned as soon as the Coronavirus lockdowns are lifted?

10 shifts in business strategy that could have lasting impactsThe COVID-19 pandemic crisis has been with us for just a few months and we are just weeks or days into different degrees of lockdown globally but we already beginning to develop insights on the emerging possible futures of business, work and the workplace once we move beyond the current situation. Many entities have already…

The macro consequences of the coronavirus

What reasonable assumptions can we make about how governments, individuals, businesses, and markets will behave over the next 6-18 months in response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak

The macro consequences of the coronavirusAs the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, there is a growing understanding that the economic and social ramifications could last far longer than the disease itself. In previous articles I discussed the need to plan for a range of scenarios and factors to consider in any such scenario exploration. In this article, I focus…

Responding to Coronavirus Disruption

Responding to Coronavirus DisruptionWhat is your business strategy for responding to current and future possible Coronavirus impacts? The COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak has thrown the world into confusion. Suspected infection rates are now higher in the rest of the world than in China. Epidemiologists, virologists, and public health specialists are suggesting that this outbreak could spread in multiple waves.…

The ecological upside to job automation

How future changes in the structure of business and the nature of work could impact the environment

The ecological upside to job automationReplacing humans with robots clearly has a dystopian flavour. But could the successive waves of artificial intelligence (AI) and other exponentially developing technologies displacing jobs, ranging from banker to construction worker, have potential positives for the environment? According to a 2016 McKinsey automation study, about a third of most job activities, affecting 49 per cent…