What you didn't know you didn't know
When I was sixteen, I was on the debate team at school in Ireland and we competed at national level.
Our team was composed of two boys and me and our debate strategy was that I would begin our session with a powerful and provocative statement and a follow-through argument that would grab the audience’s attention and keep them focused. My team-mates would continue to build our case impressively, w...
Mothers with an attitude can change the world
When British billionaire entrepreneur, Richard Branson, went to space – his epic voyage was watched by 500 people on the ground and countless numbers watching on Livestream.
It did not go unnoticed that one of the people on the ground supporting Branson and his long-awaited adventure was fellow billionaire entrepreneur and would-be astronaut, Elon Musk.
Interesting enough as an event. But here...
Technologists cannot be left to their own devices when our humanity is at stake
As a futurist, I am very enthusiastic about developments in technology and what they can do to advance humanity. So, I read with great interest, Luke Dormehl's article, entitled: 'The Future of AR is Earbuds, Not Eyeglasses | Digital Trends
However, I have some concerns about the implications of the technology, such as:
Mind-reading earbuds - come again?
An 'earable' (a 'wearable', close to the...
Become the CEO of your own life
These days, the big question is not about what keeps a CEO up at night.
It’s more about what keeps all of us up at night and it’s the same thing that keeps many of us down all day.
It’s about: uncertainty and insecurity.
Like it or not, we are headed for massive transformation in the way we live and work in the coming decades, due to amazing developments in info tech, bio tech, nanotechnology...
Friend Yourself First!
Let me tell you a big, fat lie…
It’s not my lie, but it is out there. Many people have heard it, believe it, and re-tell it. So, over time, it becomes a ‘fact’.
But, essentially, it’s still a lie.
What is it?
Well, it’s that self-awareness is selfish and that anyone who indulges in it is self-centered and self-obsessed and they should be ashamed of themselves.
That’s it.
Well, I’m here to ...
You're not a hamster; step off the wheel!
Our personal environment and circumstances have a huge effect on our well-being. And, today, we are under pressure like never before.
Accelerating developments in technology mean that communication is becoming increasingly demanding and can involve lots of different people from different cultures, beliefs and value systems, gathered together simultaneously, via internet chat, conference calls, s...
We can't just hang around and hope that the metaverse will be good for us
Aside from our concerns about the future of our physical Earth environment, there is another environment that warrants our attention. And that is the digital sphere. No coincidence then that these two areas are front and center of media focus right now.
In the Business Section of the New York Times a while back, an article entitled: 'Facebook fashions an escape hatch.' caught my attention. The pi...
Workers demand to be seen more as 'humans' than human 'resources'.
In the Op-Ed section of the New York Times a while back, Farhad Manjoo writes a compelling piece about the concept of antiwork - a trend that is rapidly gaining traction across the world. This is partly because the pandemic upended our daily lives and has highlighted the need for significant social change.
Working from home has given us the opportunity to reflect on how we had been spending our...