It is fashionable these days to speculate about robots taking jobs. Less well-observed, is the fact that seemingly great companies are being built today with far less jobs to start with. What if you only needed a small number of people to do extraordinary things?
CATEGORY: Innovation
The tragic shootings in Dallas ended dramatically with the unprecedented use of a robotic device to kill Micah Xavier Johnson, a suspect involved in the incident. Although far from sophisticated, the improvised use of a bomb-disposal unit in this way raises an important question: how far should society go in permitting the use of lethal robotics and drones by the police?
CATEGORY: Technology
Britain’s fateful decision to leave the EU has been cast as a bitter split between young and old. It’s an old tune: selfish baby boomers squatting on the future, at the expense of the millennials. But what if the real conflict were not between generations but rather between the city and the countryside?
CATEGORY: Global
Being a CMO will be one of the most interesting, but also one of the toughest jobs in the 21st century. Consider the context: consumer behaviour is changing faster than the planning cycle of marketing campaigns, marketing technology is becoming the most complex part of the enterprise stack while the rise of agile, ruthless competitors from new markets means that brands have to achieve global scale to avoid imitation and replication.
CATEGORY: Marketing
Ask someone to picture AI, and they will most likely think about Terminators, psychotic fembots or angry robots from Hollywood central casting. But what makes AI actually frightening is not that it is ‘sci-fi’, but the that it is, in fact, already deeply embedded into our daily lives. If you have a child born post 2007, chances are that they have already been shaped by algorithms and digital platforms.
CATEGORY: People
