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Future-Proof Your Career episodes
- Is immersive entertainment the future?
Tom asks whether digital entertainment can ever stand up to the experience of a live gig. Plus, why the future high street is about community, not commerce.
11 min - 3D printing might still change everything
The 3D printing revolution is running a few years late. But there's still a chance it will change everything.
Plus, why milk tells us everything about the future of content.
13 min - 5G, what it is and why it is important, with Jeremy Thompson, vice president, Huawei UK
Tom speaks to Jeremy Thompson of Huawei about 5G. What is it? Why is it causing so much excitement? What are the opportunities it presents? And when will those opportunities be realised?
43 min - Predicting the future is all about time
One of the first things Tom learned about being a futurist is that it is a lot easier to see what will happen than it is to predict when those changes will take place.
Plus, what is an algorithm archaeologist? It could be your job in the future.
8 min - Interview, Chintan Patel, Chief Technologist, Cisco UK & Ireland
Tom speaks to Chintan Patel, Chief Technologist for Cisco UK and Ireland at Cisco Live! in Barcelona, about STEM education, the importance of user experience, industry 4.0, machine learning, and much much more.
37 min - Let’s play Fear of the Future BINGO!
Doing radio phone-ins exposes Tom to lots of complaints about the modern age and exposes people’s fears of the future. How many of these do you recognise?
Plus what does the future of recruitment look like?
13 min - How to be hyper-decisive
Agile organisations must take decisions more quickly. But how do you accelerate decision-making and become ‘hyper-decisive’.
Plus, Deliveroo for Builders: what happens when the digital age gig economy comes to construction?
8 min - Betamax was not better than VHS
Tom addresses the widely-shared myth that VHS won the videocassette format wars of the 1970s in spite of its competitor Betamax being the better technology. Despite being distant history, this debate continues to inform current practice. Plus, in this episode, why even the giants of the internet age will fall.
8 min - Why batteries beat hydrogen
In this episode, Tom looks at the two technologies competing to power our electric cars: batteries and hydrogen. Plus, building the bionic banker. How will technology transform the future banking industry?
13 min - New Year, New Book, Free Chapter
Kicking off a new season of episodes of the podcast, Tom shares some news about why he went quiet in late 2019 (it's all good) and invites you to #AskAFuturist your questions (Tweet him at @bookofthefuture with this hashtag or email [email protected]). Plus, an audio sample chapter from his book, High Frequency Change.
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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.