After two high-energy tech gatherings in Dublin recently - from the fierce female founders at TechFoundHer to the 8000-strong crowd at the Dublin Tech Summit, one thing stood out: we are brimming with innovation, ambition and ideas about AI’s promise. But beneath the buzz, a deeper unease lingers: who is actually steering this transformation?

In  a packed space of highly knowledgeable and inspira...

But when technology starts knowing you better than you know yourself, complacency is no longer an option.

When I set out to convert a sci-fi/fantasy story I had written into a screenplay, I didn’t expect to spar, laugh, and script side-by-side with an AI. But this is the new normal: not human vs machine, but a dance of mutual imagination and a sharp reminder that self-awareness is now our last li...

As AI companions grow more powerful, we must ask: what happens to the bonds that make us human? In recent communications, OpenAI (Sam Altman) and Meta (Mark Zuckerberg) describe a scenario where a super intelligence will (soon?) be rolled out. Apparently, this personal superintelligence is designed to accompany us – everywhere – even on a ‘solo walk’ as suggested by Altman. The aim being to help u...

On holiday in Switzerland last week, I  marveled at the serenity of the environment, the gentle lapping of the waters of Lake Leman as we glided towards Montreux and picked up the seductive strains of a saxophone at the Jazz Festival there. I felt a sense of oneness with Nature – more than I can remember feeling when I actually lived in that region for almost a decade. Being back among the vineyar...

We once united the entire planet around a concept that doesn’t even exist. So why can’t we do the same for the most important concept of all - human dignity?

On vacation recently in Switzerland, I marveled at the serenity of the place. I was surprised that it touched me so much given that I consider myself to be a global urban junkie and I used to feel incredibly restless when I lived in Switzerl...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...