Future-Proof Your Career

Future-Proof Your Career

By Tom Cheesewright | Podcast.coBusinessEducationCareers
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Future-Proof Your Career episodes

  • Archimedes' Lever

    If you wanted to make a lever to move the world, what material would you choose? Plus, how different do you want the future to be? Past performance is no guarantee of future returns…

    11 min
  • Slow Down To Speed Up

    Tom shares advice from his mentor about simply doing less: sometimes everyone needs an external perspective. Plus, the future of work: what matters?

    8 min
  • Flying Car Reality Check

    Will we really all take to the skies? Or is terra firma a safer bet? Plus, have you ever thought about the bandwidth between you and your machines? It's falling.

    8 min
  • Time Is Tactile

    As more and more of our daily experience is digitised, do we lose touch - literally - with the physical world? Tom doesn't think so. Plus, the TSB banking failure: what really happened?

    8 min
  • Life In A Quantum World

    We have barely entered the quantum age, yet already our expanded understanding of physics has begun to define our world. What's next? Plus, moving money: how will we pay in the future?

    7 min
  • A Cult Of Culture

    As levels of faith fall, what replaces religion in tomorrow's society? Plus, Tom returns to the Cambridge Analytica story: how will we manage - and monetise - our personal data in the future?

    13 min
  • The New Radio Rentals

    Tom explores the assumption that no-one will own a car in the future, and that we will all be serviced by self-driving fleets, arriving on demand. Is this realistic? Plus are futurists here to share a vision, or advocate for one?

    11 min
  • Will a robot hold your hand?

    Would you want to be nursed by a machine when you're in your old age? Tom explores the adoption of robots in care. Plus, why transparency undermines trust and threatens human strengths in the workforce.

    13 min

About Future-Proof Your Career

From the publisher's feed

Welcome to Future-proof Your Career, your guide to the most important skills for a long, successful working life. This is a special season of the Talk About Tomorrow podcast, exploring in depth the idea of the Three Cs, three skill groups that are critical to success, in a business or as an entrepreneur. The ability to curate information, create new things, and communicate ideas. In each episode we explore a facet of one of these skills, alongside a guest.