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Future-Proof Your Career episodes
- Episode 8 - Learning To Learn
What skills do we need to survive and thrive in tomorrow's world? Tom talks education with fellow BBC tech commentator and UTC MediaCity's business engagement lead, Dan Sodergren.
28 min - Episode 7 - Augmented Reality and Awesome Androids
Inspired by the Science Museum's robots exhibition, and a debate with Google and the BBC on augmented reality, Tom explores tomorrow's mixed reality, populated by virtual beings both digital and physical.
18 min - Episode 6 - Smart Kitchens and Living Cities
This week Tom starts work on the '4G Kitchen' with famous designer Johnny Grey and the National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University, and highlights the differences between 'smart cities' and 'living cities' at Pro Manchester's digital disruption conference.
13 min - Episode 5 - Smart Cities and Beyond
Tom speaks to Andrew Beechener, founder of 'Republic of Things' about the strengths and weaknesses of smart cities, and Manchester's CityVerve programme.
28 min - Episode 4 - Faith and Failure
Reviewing the newspapers for the BBC, Tom connects two stories about our faith in technology and the effects of that faith being undermined.
9 min - Episode 3 - Lovejoy and the Robots
This week, Tom visits Sunday Brunch's Tim Lovejoy to talk about the rise of the robots
18 min - Episode 2 - The Future is Electric
Tom reveals five trends for the future of energy from a new report produced with Nabarro, and debates the future of mobility at the University of Cambridge.
16 min - Episode 1- Superyacht Design Syposium, Austria
Tom visits the Superyacht Design Symposium in Austria to discuss how tomorrow's technologies will remove the design limitations from these already-extreme vehicles.
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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.
My name is Tom Cheesewright, I’m an applied futurist advising organisations around the globe on how to see and prepare for the future. Alongside me is my co-host Katharine McNamara, communications expert extraordinaire.