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Hardy comments
The Future Now Show December 2016 Hardy comments KeywordsTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) / Asian Pacific trading space / US Dollar as a world currency /Donald Trump / Petrodollar / Energy / Electric cars Hardy F Schloer reflects on the impact that president-elect Trump’s antipathy towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could have for the Asian-Pacific trading space, and considers the future prospects of the US dollar as a world reserve currency. Central to the latter is the historical connection with oil (as in the petrodollar) and the inevitable loss of primacy that oil faces as an energy source with the rise of electric cars and alternative (non-fossil) sources of energy to power them. – Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits Hardy F. Schloer, CEO, Schloer Consulting Group Intro voiceJack Gallagher, Repetitor/Coach at de Stilte, theNetherlands
Special 2016 & 2017
The Future Now Show February 2016 Special2016 & 2017achievements, challenges & strategies. May you live in interesting times, goes the old Chinese curse. So let’s pause to consider the changes 2016 brought and what 2017 portends. As AIs flex their mental muscles by beating our best gamers, answer questions spoken into our phones and square up to drive our cars, the machines around us proliferate. From the tiny chattering chips in our homes and offices to drones large and small, benign and deadly. They’re here to help us, but they’re taking our jobs. They can face danger in our place, but they can be danger too. How will this all pan out – are humans going to deal with this sensibly, given that we react to the consequences of increasing inequality and strife by blaming the victims and voting for billionaires? Cancer may finally be on the retreat and 3D-printed replacement organs are on the horizon yet reckless use of antibiotics threatens incurable superbug infections and research into ageing has produced the bizarre phenomenon of billionaires looking to find youth, vampire-like, by transfusing the blood (plasma) of young people. Genetic engineering is becoming a precise technology (CRISPR), bringing great promise but maybe great dangers (bioterrorism). Climate change looks increasingly apocalyptic, but the president of the most powerful country on the planet thinks it is a hoax. Yet solar and wind power promise to start to displace fossil fuels on economics alone, electric cars look set to accelerate the transition, and these technologies could at the same time bring electricity (and the internet and all that entails) to the poorest on the planet for the first time. Interesting times indeed. The Future Now Show has invited some people with a particular stake in the future to share their thoughts. – Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits Simon Jones, Professor DSc FIET CEng SMIEEE, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University at Shrivenham, UKAnnegien Blokpoel, Founder & CEO, PerspeXo, the NetherlandsHuib Wursten, Senior Cunsultant, Itim International, the Netherlands Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
2016 & 2017: Quest for Change
The Future Now Show March 2016 James M Dorsey2016 & 2017: Quest for Change James Dorsey addresses the current age and labels it an age of defiance and dissent. From the Arab Spring to rising populism in the US and Europe there seems to be a trend towards rejecting the political systems and direction that have prevailed for decades. But why, and where will it go now? And what of China, economically ascendant and adapted to globalism while the west turns away from it?. – Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits James M Dorsey is Senior Fellow at S. RAJARATNAM SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, Singapore Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Emotional Intelligence
The Future Now Show May 2017 Emotional IntelligencewithHardy F Schloer moderated byMustafa Chaudhry So, as the pursuit of artificially intelligent systems by corporations skyrockets, what is it going to mean for us in a few years when the next generations of them start arriving, and how are they going to be more than just big number crunchers? Here the idea of emotional intelligence in machines is explored, what it means and what it implies for the capabilities of systems imbued with it. Should you be worried? Quite possibly, given the people who will be in charge of these clever, almost prescient systems. – Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits Hardy F. Schloer,Owner, Schloer Consulting GroupMustafa Chaudhry Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Disruptive Technology Trends
The Future Now Show June 2017 Disruptive Technology TrendswithHardy F Schloer moderated byMustafa Chaudhry When people talk about disruptive technologies you usually think of a major shift in the way things work in a particular industry. But how disruptive can technology be? How about robotics and AI increasingly watching us and controlling us as our freedom seeps away? Or taking our jobs, and therefore our earnings, making money irrelevant? Then again, we’ll be largely irrelevant. Now that’s disruptive. – Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits Hardy F. Schloer,Owner, Schloer Consulting GroupMustafa Chaudhry Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Global Marketplace
The Future Now Show July / August 2017 Global MarketplacewithHardy F Schloer moderated byMustafa Chaudhry Sometimes changes creep up on us. Will humans evolve into cyborgs? Well, if you think about how much you do through your smartphone, and how you rely on it to communicate (without speech, in general), and to make things happen in your life, then perhaps much of the transition to cyborg is already behind us and we just need the final touches to the interface (chip in the brain etc.). And what about the way we interact with the internet to get the goods we want? It is argued here that the internet-based marketplace is evolving (and AI will accelerate this) into a reactive entity where the needs and desires of people actively and rapidly affect what is offered, even what is made. Suggestive of the merging of the human mind (or minds) with computers. It makes one wonder – where do the boundaries lie? – Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits Hardy F. Schloer,Owner, Schloer Consulting GroupMustafa Chaudhry Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Cryptocurrencies
The Future Now Show September 2017 CryptocurrencieswithHardy F Schloer Once upon a time there was money. It has lubricated our civilisations from the earliest days. But how many people really understand it? And if people don’t understand money, how can they understand the implications of banks being increasingly in control of, and knowledgeable about, our transactions? Then along come cryptocurrencies, which can take banks out of the equation. A fascinating evolution, or is it a battle?- Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits Hardy F. Schloer,Owner, Schloer Consulting Group Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Digital Twin Cities & Artificial Intelligence
The Future Now Show October 2017 Digital Twin Cities & Artificial IntelligencewithIgor van Gemert Artificial Intelligences (AIs) are being increasingly used in real applications. An example, discussed here, is using them to mimic the goings-on in a simulation of a real city (or even country), from traffic flow to electricity and water consumption. This allows us to play with possible variations (which energy sources to use, extreme scenarios etc.) and make wiser decisions about the real city. But hang on; if the AIs can figure this out, why not let them manage the city for us? – Paul Holister The Future Now ShowCredits Igor van Gemert, CEO founder SIM-CI.com, ci simulations : resilient by design Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text