The Future, This Week 17 November 2017
This week: re-cycling data, Watson’s health problems, and shop the look on Spotify.
What businesses can learn from sports about using algorithms
There are good reasons why business has not been as successful as sports teams at implementing algorithmic decision-making.
The future of work for Gen Y & Z
We must equip millennials with the ability to think critically and to evaluate new situations, new information and new environments, in order to prepare them for tomorrow’s jobs.
How China’s AI experts can beat Google and Microsoft by 2030
China is more than capable of reaching its goal of global AI leadership, but it will require a change in mindset to carry out and support groundbreaking research, not just follow existing technology.
World-first microchip: ‘storing lightning inside thunder’
As we churn through more data, cloud computing centres are overheating. Photonic chip technology offers a way forward for our insatiable appetite for information.
Data surveillance is all around us, and it’s going to change our behaviour
Enabled by exponential technological advancements in data storage, transmission and analysis, the drive to “datify” our lives is creating an ultra-transparent world where we are never free from being under surveillance.
Machine learning – mapping the world’s collective intelligence
The time we spend trying to parse the data to make informed decisions, but also to try to identify new connections and trends is growing exponentially. We talk to Dan Buczaczer from Quid about how machine intelligence is helping us interrogate the world’s collective intelligence.