Feb 28, 2019

Keeping Ahead of the Future - Issue #5

It’s getting a little late to say Happy New Year! However warm wishes to you for the duration of 2019. I managed to get in a different frame of mind for while, helped by a switched-off vacation in Tonga, now I’m fully in the fray with a variety of client engagements, with dominant themes this month and next the future of finance and financial services, and working with boards and directors on innovation and governance. In my next newsletter I’ll share a little on my research themes for this year, as we rapidly head towards the long-awaited and much-foretold 2020!

Scanning the edge of the future

The perils of short-termism: Civilisation’s greatest threat | BBC Future

Our inability to look beyond the latest news cycle could be one of the most dangerous traits of our generation, says Richard Fisher.

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The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler - The New York Times

Looking to the future has always defined humanity. Will A.I. become the best crystal ball of all?

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Retraining and reskilling workers in the age of automation | McKinsey

Executives increasingly see investing in retraining and “upskilling” existing workers as an urgent business priority that companies, not governments, must lead on.

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Monetizing your knowledge will be the next gig economy — Quartz at Work

In a world with an overwhelming amount of information available, it is sometimes not easy to figure out how to apply it. The right person with the right answer is already out there. We just need to index human know-how and work out how to provide on-demand access to it.

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Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness | The Guardian

Modern life has led to greater isolation, which can fuel an array of disorders. If there are medications for social pains like depression and anxiety, why not loneliness?

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Human Mind Control of Rat Cyborg’s Continuous Locomotion with Wireless Brain-to-Brain Interface | Scientific Reports

The results showed that rat cyborgs could be smoothly and successfully navigated by the human mind to complete a navigation task in a complex maze. Our experiments indicated that the cooperation through transmitting multidimensional information between two brains by computer-assisted brain-to-brain interfaces is promising.

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Selected new resources from RossDawson.com

New framework: The six elements of Platform Strategy

Tomorrow I am giving the keynote on Platform Strategy: Creating Exponential Value in Connected Times at the Digital Single Market Cloud Stakeholder Conference in Vienna, Austria. An increasing proportion of my work over the last years has been explicitly centered on platforms and platform strategy, but in many ways it is has been core to […]

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Company as a platform: a key concept for technology-enabled strategy

Last week I gave the keynote on Technology Leadership in an Accelerating World and chaired the C-Level Executive Luncheon at the Oracle Impact conference in Bangkok, Thailand. After the lunch roundtable more than one CIO told me that the ‘Company as a platform’ concept I’d put forward during my keynote had resonated strongly with them. […]

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Exploring the Future Ep 4: Six facets of strategy for emerging technologies

In a short segment I recorded in Bangkok at the Oracle Impact Summit recently, I discuss the six facets of strategy for emerging technologies with some simple visual illustrations. You can read more about the six facets of strategy for emerging technologies here. The transcript is below. To subscribe to my future vlog episodes click […]

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New Framework: Critical Uncertainties in the Future of Work

This morning I gave a keynote at the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools Annual Conference, which brings together the Deans and leaders of the top business schools in the region. The other sessions in the morning were presented by McKinsey & Co and PwC, so I wanted to present perspectives that would be complementary to […]

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How predictive analytics can shift us from 'sick-care' to true preventative healthcare - Ross Dawson

If we look at extraordinary world of the future of healthcare, one of the most important developments is predictive analytics based on the profusion of data we are now able to capture and feed into machine learning algorithms.

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The next stage of human evolution is to transform our intrinsic desire for progress - Ross Dawson

I was pleased to discover I am on the cover of the new issue of Venture magazine! The cover feature, titled Transformation Without End, is based on an extended interview with me.

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By Ross Dawson

Global Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Strategy Advisor, Author
Latest news and insights to help you keep ahead in a rapidly changing world
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