Future

We are all happy to use an interior designer, but would you be happy using a DNA designer? What we mean by this is the obvious evolution of fertility treatments, such as IVF, evolving into specific DNA structures of change and even babies born out of womb through artificial gestation. It is probable that, by…

As someone involved in cryptocurrencies early in the game, you would speculate that I’m now a billionaire. Yes, I did invest in bitcoin in 2013 when it was just $60. Now, it’s hovering around the $100,000 per bitcoin mark (and ETH just broke $4,000). Congrats if you made the investment ten years ago. Nevertheless, during…

I’ve talked about how the financial system can either aid or abet the challenge of climate change – so much so that I even wrote a book about it called Digital for Good. This means that there is a future where someone has to work to protect our environment who I call the Environmental Defender….

There are two things that came up recently which made me stop and think. The first is the recreation of Elvis Presley through AI who will now perform every night in London in 2025, dead and on stage looking live; the second is a new podcast series created around Michael Parkinson, the legendary chat show…

We’ve seen Microsoft absorb ChatGPT and the impact that has made on search. Google responded by integrating their Gemini AI into search. But search was just the start. AI is taking over every nook and cranny of the internet and life. A great example is how chatbots seem to have more empathy than human bots:…

Continuing Sophie Deen’s series around jobs of the future, we come to the Curator. I’ve talked about the Curator before – seven years ago in fact – and it’s a role that replaces the CIO. It is all about curating the multiverse of providers, platforms and possibilities in the ecosystem of the network we live…

I wrote in April about debanking my bank before they debanked me, which is a theme regularly popping up in UK media. The debanking process is where, without notice, a bank decides that your account is suspicious and blocks it for no apparent reason. You cannot get it reopened and often find it difficult to…

What is the meaning of life? A question asked many times from Monty Python to Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This will become an even more important question in the future as robots and AI control our world. Why are we here? What is the function of a human? Is there any meaning to our lives?…

I’ve been surprised recently by non-stop news updates about how well Revolut is doing. From getting its UK banking license, which was suspect for a while, to achieving the milestone of 50 million customers, 2024 has been a pretty phenomenal year for the company. Then they announce next years plans which include AI-driven finance, super…

I wonder whether, tomorrow, we will find machines that advise us on our life decisions, our relationships and our thinking. It is obvious that AI machines will manage our health and deploy robotic healthcare services to ensure that we live our lives better, but what about what is inside our heart and mind? I used…