Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Business & Finance
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The future is arriving faster than ever. Graeme Codrington highlights key issues we need to consider to prepare for tomorrow's workplace today, including audio feed of his weekly ThrowForward Thursday series.
Episodes
- Should We Use AI for Medical Advice? It's Complicated - ThrowForward Thursday 187
This episode discusses the significant accuracy gap when AI is used for medical advice by experts versus laypeople, highlighting the Dunning-Kruger effect with LLMs. It introduces the 5T AI Impact Model to help organizations integrate AI e…
- $80 billion. Gone - ThrowForward Thursday 186
This episode analyzes Meta's $80 billion Metaverse loss, drawing parallels to current technological trends like AI and spatial computing. It provides a framework for distinguishing real innovation from hype, helping leaders make better inv…
- What if... we banned phones in restaurants (like we banned smoking) - ThrowForward Thursday 185
The episode discusses the potential for banning mobile phones in restaurants, similar to how smoking was banned in public spaces. It suggests that societal norms and rules can be changed to adapt to such a ban, much like people changed the…
- Why everyone wants a piece of Greenland - ThrowForward Thursday 184
This episode of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work discusses the strategic importance of Greenland. It delves into why various entities, including Donald Trump, are interested in the region, suggesting implications that could significantly…
- What it means to be human in an age of Robots - ThrowForward Thursday 183
This episode discusses what it means to be human as robots become more capable, even in sports. It questions the nature of competition and self-discovery, and how advanced robots challenge our views of automation and ourselves. The host al…
- The Enhanced Games - ThrowForward Thursday 182
The Enhanced Games aim to explore human potential through chemical, medical, and biomechanical enhancements, challenging traditional limits in sport. This raises questions about the future of sports, ethical boundaries, and the potential v…
- MEET MY DIGITAL TWIN: ThrowForward Thursday 181
Graeme Codrington's team at TomorrowToday has created a ChatGPT agent, a digital twin trained on their past 20 years of work. This free GPT agent can be accessed to ask questions about the future, foresight, leadership, and innovation.
- ThrowForward Thursday 180: What if our Medicines Stop Working?
This episode revisits predictions about the end of antibiotics, referencing a recent WHO report on rising antibiotic and AMR resistance. It emphasizes the urgent need to reduce antibiotic usage to allow science to adapt and calls for a soc…
- ThrowForward Thursday 179: Cape Town Marathon Cancelled
The 2025 Cape Town Marathon was cancelled because strong winds made the course unsafe. This incident serves as a reminder that major sporting events must plan for weather disruptions as a primary concern, reflecting a new reality influence…
- ThrowForward Thursday 178: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Post Truth World
This episode discusses navigating a post-truth world filled with AI deepfakes and manipulated media, drawing parallels with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It covers misinformation, the importance of skepticism and curiosity for lead…
- ThrowForward Thursday 177: Dealing with a Post-Truth World
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- ThrowForward Thursday 176: Deep Fakes Revisited
This episode revisits predictions about deep fakes and fake news, noting their accelerated arrival. The host discusses the challenge of discerning truth in an era where audio and visual content may be manipulated, impacting our trust in in…
- ThrowForward Thursday 175: Season 6 Introduction
This episode marks the introduction to Season 6 of ThrowForward Thursday. The show will revisit 175 past episodes to analyze the accuracy of future predictions and their implications for the present.
- ThrowForward Thursday 174: Imagine - end of 2024 message
In ThrowForward Thursday 174, Graeme Codrington emphasizes how imagination shapes our engagement with the future. He encourages listeners to envision a positive future as 2024 ends, expresses gratitude for support, and announces a new show…
- ThrowForward Thursday 173: CEOs are not safe
An incident involving a CEO underscores potential security risks for corporate leaders. The episode discusses the importance of building future-proof businesses that integrate social responsibility as a core strategy.
- ThrowForward Thursday 172: A Data Center sues town for all its water
This episode discusses the potential future conflict arising from data centers suing towns for water resources. It highlights the massive electricity and water consumption of data centers and the risks for towns that incentivize their loca…
- ThrowForward Thursday 171: The 15 hour work week
Economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour work week by 2030. This episode discusses why that prediction hasn't materialized and questions whether the 15-hour work week is an achievable goal or just an idealistic fantasy.
- ThrowForward Thursday 170: My AI assistant chooses who I vote for
This episode discusses the potential for personal AI assistants to analyze political candidates and voter profiles to recommend who to vote for. It suggests this application of AI could help voters make more informed choices by leveraging…
- ThrowForward Thursday 169: The End of Company Emails
This episode explores the potential end of company-provided email addresses, suggesting individuals might use their own in the future. It examines how this shift relates to fractional workers and the increasing importance of personal brand…
- ThrowForward Thursday 168: The Day The Internet Dies
This episode explores the critical yet fragile nature of the DNS system, which translates website requests into IP addresses. The speaker highlights how vulnerabilities in this system, often managed by under-resourced volunteers, could lea…
- ThrowForward Thursday 167: The Talking Robots are Human Controlled
This episode discusses the potential future reality of humanoid robots in care homes and kindergartens being controlled by exploited human operators. It serves as a cautionary tale about capitalism, worker rights, and technological progres…
- ThrowForward Thursday 165: Smartphone Innovation (seems a bit stuck to me)
In this episode, Graeme Codrington discusses the stagnation of smartphone innovation, arguing that companies are focused on incremental updates rather than transformative change. He challenges listeners to aim for higher innovation goals t…
- ThrowForward Thursday 165: Genetic Enhancement and Gender
This episode speculates on a future reality where genetic data could redefine gender classifications, moving beyond male and female categories in sports to accommodate various genetic characteristics, and potentially incorporating genetic…
- ThrowForward Thursday 164: Clones: Copy Yourself
This episode of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work discusses the concept of cloning human thinking using algorithms and Large Language Models, differentiating it from the future possibility of copying human bodies. The focus is on digitizi…
- ThrowForward Thursday 163: The Great 50 year global drought
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work episode 'The Great 50 Year Global Drought' explores a hypothetical future drought's societal and economic impacts, referencing the Bronze Age collapse caused by a similar event in 1177 BC.
- ThrowForward Thursday 162: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended
The Jet Pack Drone Racing League has been suspended following two more deaths, jeopardizing the sport's inclusion in the 2040 African Olympic Games. This episode questions the future of dangerous sports and the balance between pushing huma…
- ThrowForward Thursday 161: The Death of Outsourced Procurement
This episode of ThrowForward Thursday explores a future where outsourced procurement is eliminated, possibly made illegal, due to the significant brand damage and financial costs incurred by suppliers dealing with complex payment processes…
- ThrowForward Thursday 160: Ancient Virus Released
This episode explores the hypothetical scenario of a 40,000-year-old virus released by thawing Arctic ice in 2037. Graeme Codrington discusses the importance of building business antifragility in response to potential global health emergen…
- ThrowForward Thursday 159: Human Robot Bionics
This episode discusses human-robot bionics, focusing on how technology can augment human capabilities through exoskeletons, enhanced intelligence, and techno-diversity, advocating for a mindset shift from automation to augmentation.
- ThrowForward Thursday 158: France Bans Energy Drinks (future scenario)
This episode explores a future scenario where France bans energy drinks due to public health concerns. It prompts listeners to consider how their companies would respond to negative sentiment shifts or potential government bans on their pr…
- ThrowForward Thursday: Ep 157: Vocal Biomarker Disease Detection
This episode of ThrowForward Thursday, the first of Season 5, explores the concept of using a 15-second voice recording to diagnose diseases and detect potential health issues. This idea is rooted in recent medical experiments.
- ThrowForward Thursday 156: Season 5 Promo
Season 5 of the Future Scenarios series is launching next week, starting August 2024. Graeme Codrington is a future of work expert, author, and speaker who helps leaders understand and respond to change.
- ThrowForward Thursday 155: PROMO TomorrowToday Podcast with Keith Coats
This excerpt promotes The TomorrowToday Podcast, featuring Keith Coats discussing 'The Connection Economy' and its impact on organizational design for future-ready businesses. It touches on transformation, leadership, and adapting past pra…
- ThrowForward Thursday 154: PROMO TomorrowToday Podcast with Tamryn Batcheller-Adams
This episode of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work features a promo for The TomorrowToday Podcast. It discusses organizational design, building future-ready businesses, and leadership, including an excerpt from an interview with Tamryn Bat…
- ThrowForward Thursday 152: The 3D Strategy Framework
This episode discusses the Three Dimensional Strategy Framework, a concept from The TomorrowToday Podcast. The framework includes a strategic foundation (purpose, values, true north), strategic essentials for competition, and strategic dif…
- ThrowForward Thursday Ep 152: The TomorrowToday Podcast Episode 2
This excerpt from The TomorrowToday Podcast, Episode 2, features Graeme Codrington and Buhle Dlamini discussing the future of organizational design and characteristics of future-ready organizations. It is presented as a sample of the full…
- ThrowForward Thursday 151: Introducing the TomorrowToday Podcast
This episode introduces the new TomorrowToday Podcast, co-hosted by Buhle Dlamini and Graeme Codrington. The podcast aims to help listeners future-proof their businesses for the remainder of this decade and the 2030s by providing insights…
- ThrowForward Thursday 150: Data, data everywhere - Review of Season 4 and inspiration for the future
This episode reviews Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday, highlighting data as a key theme. It emphasizes the importance of using data to shape future success and offers resources like the Strategic Imagination Toolkit.
- ThrowForward Thursday 149: The path to AGI
This episode differentiates Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) from current Generative AI and LLMs, explaining AGI develops on a separate path. It suggests focusing on improving GenAI tools while being wary of premature AGI hype.
- Throwforward Thursday 148: Download data to our brains
This episode envisions a future where neural transfers and AI handle data acquisition, allowing humans to focus on creative thinking and problem-solving. It suggests that humans, with access to the same data as Generative AI, will ultimate…
- ThrowForward Thursday 147: Digital Democracy 2052
This episode of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work discusses the concept of Digital Democracy in 2052, imagining elections processed in minutes. It explores the vision of digital-first, ubiquitous, and secure personal technology reducing f…
- Throwforward Thursday 146: Rocking the afternoon
This episode explores the potential for afternoon concert start times for ageing musicians and their fans. It encourages listeners to question industry norms to uncover new opportunities.
- ThrowForward Thursday 145: Phytomining (extracting minerals and metals from plants)
This episode discusses phytomining, a process where plants extract minerals and metals from soil, which can then be harvested. This technique holds potential for supplying metals needed for batteries.
- ThrowForward Thursday 144: Future Experiments in Government
With elections affecting billions globally and widespread voter dissatisfaction, Graeme Codrington explores the inadequacy of current systems and proposes four unconventional ideas for future parliamentary and governmental approaches to st…
- ThrowForward Thursday 143: LAMs: Large ACTION Models and the future of smartphones
This episode discusses Large Action Models (LAMs), the next step beyond Large Language Models, focusing on how devices can understand and execute natural language requests for actions. It highlights the potential of devices like the Rabbit…
- Throwforward Thursday 142: Water Wars
As global water stress increases, control over water resources can lead to conflict. Graeme Codrington emphasizes the need for equitable, agreed-upon, and future-proof water security plans for everyone.
- ThrowForward Thursday 141: No More Plastic
In this episode, Graeme Codrington emphasizes the critical necessity of ending current plastic usage to prevent further pollution and toxins on Earth. He explores strategies for a sustainable future.
- ThrowForward Thursday 140: No More Ships at Sea
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work episode 'No More Ships at Sea' presents a hypothetical scenario of rogue waves making oceans impassable for ships, highlighting the severe consequences of climate change and global warming.
- ThrowForward Thursday 139: Robot Window Washers
Robots are transforming the window cleaning industry, analyzing building exteriors for maintenance. This episode explores the potential of predictive data analytics in various business applications.
- ThrowForward Thursday 138: Chatbot sued by owner
In a real February 2024 event, Air Canada sued its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. This incident serves as a cautionary tale about the risks of over-automation and emphasizes the importance of human oversig…