A couple of weeks ago, John McDonnell MP, the shadow chancellor, announced that he’d be organising a series of events on New Economics to “broaden the debate around economics in Britain.” I booked up for the first four in London straight away. The first lecture was last night at the Royal Institution. It was good,…
Last night, someone commented on an old video of mine on YouTube. It was from some work I did in 2006 making content for a site supporting a consultation around education for the creative industries. That’s as much as I remember really. Mostly it was talking to “grown-ups” about what “skills are needed by industry”…
Eva Pascoe came and gave us some insights particularly into recent uses of Virtual and Augmented Realities in retail. Discussions afterwards included: Do we need physical body to commune with others? AR/VR very different How immersive does the reality have to be to be virtual? How will we avoid aggravating the Digital Divide? (ie that…
Priya Prakash from Design for Social Change came along to our third Future of Work event at Truphone to talk about how work might change when some of our colleagues are a network of sensing machines talking to each other. Discussions that followed included: IoT: Main uses in the next 10 years Knowledge Management…
We started the second Future of Work event with an introduction to Mycelia from Imogen Heap. If you haven’t read it yet, the two-part interview she did on Forbes is a great starting point. In a nutshell, she calls it “Fairtrade for musicians” it’s intended to be a way of using smart contracts on the blockchain…
This was the first of a series of evenings at Truphone looking at the future of work in the context of four currently maturing technologies. We started off with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and were given a great overview by Benjamin Ellis of Redcatco. Discussions that followed included: What happens when the AI is wrong?…
Last Thursday, we kicked off a series of evenings at the offices of Truphone with James Tagg leading a romp through the current thinking about the future of artificial intelligence in the context of mobile, ie “When will your smartphone be smarter than you?” We then went into a short open space session with people…
//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js I’ve dropped in to the Ethereum Devcon1 at the Gibson Hall, slap bang in the middle of the City – at the junction of Threadneedle Street and Bishopsgate. And Vinay and I sat in a marquee on the lawn (how surreal was your morning?) until we reckoned it would be more comfortable in the…
This is a boiled down version of the podcast I put out this morning. If you can’t spare 20 minutes, but have 5 minutes for video watching it’ll be perfect for you!
On the Sunday morning at Hacklands, after we’d heard some lovely Chopin, James Tagg got up to speak about his new book “Are The Androids Dreaming Yet?” a popular science look at the history and potential future of Artificial Intelligence. I sat down with James a few weeks later to talk more about the ideas in…