Jul 11, 2019

Keeping Ahead of the Future - Issue #7

It is past the middle of the year, and the days are now waxing or waning, depending on which hemisphere you live in! Amid my busy speaking calendar, including keynotes and workshops on topics such as the future of investment, the future of professional services, innovation governance, and post-capitalism, I have been working on framing the next phase of activities for my group of companies. Keep posted for formal news on that front before long.

On a related front, I am currently developing frameworks and methodologies for what I describe as ‘strategic collective intelligence’. Boards and executive teams bring together immense individual experience and insight, but these are not always integrated in ways that generates excellent strategies. There is massive value in structures for facilitating diverse perspectives into outcomes greater than the individual contributions.

A few other highlights from my work in the links below include the launch of my new Creating the Future of PR Framework, thoughts from a keynote I gave on supplier diversity, and a recent TV interview on space tourism.

Scanning the edge of the future

Fake voices 'help cyber-crooks steal cash' - BBC News

A security firm said it had seen three cases of seemingly deepfaked audio of different chief executives used to trick senior financial controllers into transferring cash.

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How you and your friends can play a video game together using only your minds | UW News

Telepathic communication might be one step closer to reality thanks to new research from the University of Washington. A team created a method that allows three people to work together to solve a problem using only their minds.

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Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands - SupChina

In today’s dystopian news: An elite primary school in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province is making its students wear brainwave-reading headbands that can supposedly detect their attention levels.

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Stanford engineers make editing video as easy as editing text

A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text – copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.

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Evan Horowitz: IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries and that doesn't bode well for humanity

IQ rates are falling in many developed countries, and experts haven’t figured out why. But answering that question is important to keeping the global economy on track.

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Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish | The Independent

Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household waste was sent to landfill last year or any year since 2011.

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The Microbots Are on Their Way - The New York Times

Tiny sensors with tinier legs, stamped out of silicon wafers, could one day soon help fix your cellphone battery or study your brain.

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Selected new resources from RossDawson.com

The potential beyond the threshold of space tourism: hypersonic travel, solar system colonization and more - Ross Dawson

I was just interviewed on ABC TV about the news that Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is going public through a merger to become the first publicly listed space tourism company.

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New visual framework: Creating the Future of PR in a rapidly changing world - Ross Dawson

Some years ago I started developing a Future of PR landscape to examine the evolution of the industry, in my long-standing series of visual strategy frameworks. I recently returned to my earlier work and finalized a Creating the Future of PR Framework, shown below.

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Be your own futurist: imagine a new landscape and reinvent yourself - Ross Dawson

The latest issue of Business View magazine, themed The Future of Business, includes a concluding article that distills key points from an interview with me.

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The power of the supplier diversity movement and its compelling future - Ross Dawson

By now we have extensive evidence that supporting diversity in society and business is not just the right thing to do, it significantly improves outcomes.

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How virtual assistants will build knowledge-based relationships based on trust - Ross Dawson

I was recently interviewed for an article in CMO.com on major trends for marketers in the mobile space. In the interview I discussed the role and scope of digital assistants…

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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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