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Throwforward Thursday 85: Giving Lonely People The Choice to Chat
In 2021, a Dutch supermarket chain, Jumbo, created a special checkout line - it was designed to be slower and give people the opportunity...
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graeme
- Dec 30, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 84: Food in the future
As we spend this last week of December battling to remember what day of the week it is, and finally finishing off the leftovers from our...
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graeme
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 82: Energy (tomorrow and today)
We've talked about alternative and green energy solutions before on Throwforward Thursday (episode 6 - https://youtu.be/rI76SEIT2Ms and...
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graeme
- Dec 12, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 81: Overnight 3D Print Shops
Apologies for the late posting of this video. Episode 81 of our weekly series into future trends suggests that we might have dedicated...
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graeme
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
ThrowForward Thursday 80: The End of Prisons
This week we imagine a future where restorative justice and rehabilitation takes precedence over retribution and the prison-industrial...
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graeme
- Nov 24, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 79: Smart Homes for Seniors
Sometime very soon, we need to change our view of what "old age" looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older...
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graeme
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 78: Grandparents of the Future
Imagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they're healthier and living longer), where they get...
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graeme
- Nov 12, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 77: DNA Data Storage
Every day, humans produce 2.4 quintillion bytes of data, and this doubles every two years or so at the moment. Most of this is now stored...
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graeme
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 76: Communicating with Animals (and anyone in any language)
Imagine using the technologies we are currently developing to help us with voice recognition and real-time translation to be able to...
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graeme
- Oct 27, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 75: The future of live sport on TV - The BEST way to watch the World Cup
About the only reason to pay for a premium TV subscription these days is live sport. If you're fan, you'll know the value of live...
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graeme
- Oct 13, 2022
- 1 min
ThrowForward Thursday 74: Where to look to see the future
In last week's episode (https://youtu.be/1pk5KmeDDP0) I shared our TIDES Model of Disruptive Change as a tool you can use to know WHAT to...
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graeme
- Oct 10, 2022
- 1 min
ThrowForward Thursday 73: Where we get our ideas (The TIDES Model of Disruptive Change)
Slightly late this week, this is a special edition of ThrowForward Thursday, answering a question sent to us: "Where do you get all your...
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graeme
- Sep 29, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 72: The end of frogs
Our story starts 20 years, as a fungal infection wiped out the world's frogs. It continues today as we see a resurgence in malaria and...
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graeme
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 71: The End of Water (and three possible solutions)
We all know that the world has a huge problem with water. We don't have enough of it in the places we need it. There are at least three...
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graeme
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 70: The end of emails
I don't know how far into the future we need to go before we find the end of emails, but in my opinion it can't come soon enough. Emails...
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graeme
- Sep 8, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 69: The end of sex
More people - especially young people - around the world are choosing not to get married, not to have long-term relationships, not to...
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graeme
- Sep 1, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 68: The end of sand
We use sand for pretty much everything we can see around us - including the glass in the screen you're watching this on. And we are...
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graeme
- Aug 25, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 67: The end of Hotel Room Service (and a few things your company offers...)
Now that we can get food delivered to us from any restaurant to anywhere, we don't have to rely on the room service offered to us by the...
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graeme
- Aug 18, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 66: The end of Antibiotics
Antibiotics changed our world 100 years ago, probably adding about 20 years to average lifespans as we dealt with infections and disease....
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graeme
- Aug 11, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 65: The end of rush hour traffic
Why do we still have rush hour traffic - with EVERYONE trying to get to work and school at the SAME TIME every working day? It's 2022 and...
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