Shooting for the moon is surprisingly hard
One small step for man.…does not necessarily make good business sense for mankind.
The Future, This Week 20 April 2018
This week: talking to books, bots and pods; echo chambers; and fish tanks and Musk's couch in other news.
The Future, This Week 02 March 2018
This week: lawyers v. AI, logos all the same and ring my bell.
I spy with my data eye…
Strava snafu exposes the risk of big data.
The Future, This Week 12 January 2018
This week: how bots use us to make money online and a recap on algorithms.
The Future, This Week 15 December 2017
This week: the battle of the giants, what's up with Bitcoin, and avocado innovation.
The Future, This Week 24 November 2017
This week: is the ivory tower asleep at the wheel, city experiments, and Uber...again.
The Future, This Week 27 October 2017
This week: scary tales about superhuman robots, a global waste blockage, and tricking cars.
Hype and cash are muddying public understanding of quantum computing
Quantum computing is being described as "just around the corner". Is it?
The Future, This Week 09 June 2017
This week: should email die, stealing jeeps, talking pods, and our robot of the week.
From imagination to innovation
Star Trek inspired the first mobile phone by Motorola. Google, Apple and Microsoft have all used science fiction to stay ahead of the curve in the innovation game. So how do we go from imagination to innovation?
Can autonomous vehicles become sexy?
The self-driving car is often presented as the transportation technology of the future. Indeed, Google already had a fleet of 20+ self-driving vehicles that have travelled almost one million autonomous miles.