Monday, November 19, 2018

Playing The Amateur Futurist

Over the next few weeks, I hope to play the AMATEUR futurist. I intend to share what I've learnt about technologies that are likely to impact the physical and intellectual capability of humans in the next 10 years and the consequent effect on our lifestyles and work.

In the past 9 months, I've had the pleasure to attend two lectures by Devan Capur, the CEO of 3C Technologies and he simply blew my mind. I'll draw heavily on those lectures. However, any mistakes are definitely mine not his since what follows is my interpretation of information gleaned from his lectures and my follow-on research.

Broadly, the emerging technologies are segregated into 5 areas:

  1. Robotics, Autonomous Mobility and Telexistence
  2. Artificial Intelligence / Augmented Intelligence
  3. Digital Biology
  4. Internet of Things
  5. Blockchain
These are very broad topics and I won't pretend to fully understand everything that I've read. My hope is to pique your interest to read further on these technologies and see if they excite you as much as they excite me.