Futurology

Answering What’s The Future by exploring digital’s future impact. Every week the Futurology team explores the "Future of _______” with people that are doing - and not just talking - the future, right now. As the Futurology team, your hosts bring a diverse thought process based in a diverse and collective experience - they are... Brett Lindsay (B2), the Digital Philosopher and Engaging Content Specialist, strives to find solutions to unique problems by consulting to companies, in order to make the most effective use of new technology to enhance the way they do business through the power of engaging digital solutions. Brett St Clair (B3), the Ex Googler, turned digital banker and African Digital Disrupter, who loves being part of Africa's greatness by focusing on disrupting the status quo and accelerating growth through the frenetic buzz of developing exponential businesses. Michael Cowen, the Digital Renegade, an ex Agency, turned exDigital Management Consultant who builds sustainable digital solutions to solve real human problems. Every Wednesday from 12:00 - 13:00 the Futurology show digs into the tech, the trends and digital transformations that are happening and will change how we live, work and engage as people and as businesses. #thefutureiscoming
Weekly English South Africa Technology
114 Episodes
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CXTECHFEST: Safer Cities & The Quality Of Experience

In this podcast we chat to JP Horne, who has been on the forefront of public sector innovation within the public sector for the last 20 years. His experience spans both spectrums of this sector, having serviced government while working for Microsoft and Oracle Corporation - as well as within…
11 Dec 2017 16 min

CXTECHFEST: Scaling CX Through Technology

In this podcast we chat to Christelle van de Merwe, whose presentation was around scaling the customer experience through technology. Christelle Van de Merwe is the Global Director of Customer Innovation and Transformation at Mimecast. Prior to this, Christelle’s passion for CX originated at the University of Cape Town with…
11 Dec 2017 18 min

CXTECHFEST: Artificial Intelligence Drives Smarter CX

Artificial Intelligence is the future of the business-technology landscape. It’s not good enough to just have a strategy and plan to use AI in your business, it’s important about how well it is executed, what is the impact of AI on consumers, business and our way of life today and…
10 Dec 2017 14 min

CXTECHFEST: In Math We Trust - Bitcoin & Blockchain

Human trust is undergoing its most significant transformation in history. Money is the second most important societal construct after language and is currently undergoing its biggest transformation. Beyond money, this will fundamentally change contracts and creative work, leaving no business untouched... leading some prominent computer scientists to call the blockchain…
10 Dec 2017 28 min

The Future of Work (recorded live at Huawei Innovation Zone)

The Futurology team goes live in the Huawei Innovation Zone. To change things around a bit we decided to do a live podcast with Brian Armstrong on the Future of Work. We were joined by a live audience who added their 2 cents worth. It was a fascinating, in depth…
6 Dec 2017 1 hr 07 min

BCX Disrupt

Ian Russell, CEO of BCX, joins the team in studio to discuss the BCX Disrupt event and all things causing #disruption - as well as adopting technology and new ways of working as we look to the future.
22 Nov 2017 43 min

The Trends of 2018

2017 is almost over and the gurus are starting to publish next year's big trends. Some are predictable - like AI and Machine Learning - and maybe old trends like AR will be back in vogue. Who knows? Well Mark Walker has a pretty good idea. He runs the Africa…
15 Nov 2017 43 min

The Future of Fake Social Media

Recently social media has been redefined by the massive spike in fake news, fake accounts, and general manipulation of the core message to suit specific agendas. The #Guptabots are a case in point, run out of India and spilling their vile evil across the social media channels. The team speaks…
8 Nov 2017 52 min

Go Digital, Stay Human!

From The Netherlands, Christian Kromme is a Futurist, Technology speaker and author of the book 'Humanification'. Christian shows organisations how to turn technological change into a competitive advantage. He believes that visionary ideas with a lasting impact on people are ones that are delivered in a simple and engaging way…
1 Nov 2017 49 min

Singularity University Part 5: Mars & the Future of Mobility

The Futurology team brings you one last batch of interviews with amazing speakers and guests from the Singularity University Summit. The Bretts talk to Brett Loubser about the SingularityU experience, discuss the future of mobility with Carlo van de Weijer, and have an out of this world conversation with Adriana…
25 Oct 2017 33 min

Singularity University Part 4: Medical Technology & Quantum Security

In this next podcast within the Singularity series we chat to Diviya Chander about Medical Technology and Jaya Baloo on Quantum Security. So if you want to know how often North Korea has been hacked, how ones and zeros are in the same place at the same time, or the…
18 Oct 2017 57 min

Singularity University Part 3: Energy, Health, & Biology

The Futurology team bring you more interviews with amazing & influential people from the Singularity University Summit in JHB. They find out some of the interesting connections & opportunities between us as humans and the tech heavy world of the future. This jam packed show is filled with brilliant insight…
4 Oct 2017 1 hr 06 min

Singularity University Part 2: AI, Data, Education & Robotics

Kicking off with some of the interviews from the Singularity University Summit, the team chats to David Roberts on what Exponential is all about - and how Ice disrupted the world. They dig into AI and the world of data with Viviene Ming... she’s power and a ball of passionate…
27 Sep 2017 56 min

Singularity University Part 1: Shayne Mann

We are extremely excited to start our series from Singularity University, which was on 23-24 August. And wow, what an incredible show, where 1,300 South Africans were exposed to the 29 future thinkers from all over the planet. The world is changing and these are the beautiful minds changing it…
20 Sep 2017 54 min

The Future Financial Crisis

The team chats to maverick economist Prof. Steve Keen. Steve was one of the very few economists who predicted the 2008 financial crisis and has just written the book, 'Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (The Future of Capitalism)'. The short answer is no, we can't avoid another financial crisis…
6 Sep 2017 50 min

Sapiens & SingularityU

The Futurology Team recently attended the SingularityU Summit in Johannesburg and had the privilege of interviewing many amazing people with a view of the future around things like Disruption & Exponential Technology. While they prepare the episodes from SingularityU, here's a previous episode, where the Bretts spent time with Brett…
30 Aug 2017 54 min

Future of Problem Solving

Futurology is joined by Raymond Ledwaba and Gideon Ogongo where they tackle the problem of... solving problems. Ray and Gideon are establishing themselves as one of Africa's unique problems solvers using tech. The future of problem solving could be solved by communities solving one problem at a time - focus…
23 Aug 2017 55 min

How Storytelling Defines the Future of Content

Sapiens talks about storytelling being the key reason why we have evolved beyond any other homo species. This week in studio we have Mike Sharman, who is a master at storytelling. He is the founder and CEO of Retroviral Agency and a phenomenal speaker who is passionate about content. Join…
16 Aug 2017 56 min

Future Entrepreneurs

The Futurology Team chats to Lianne du Toit - who was voted as one of “Fast Company’s most creative people in business in 2016” - about how things have changed drastically for entrepreneurs, both locally and internationally. They dig deep into how women are taking the startup world by storm,…
9 Aug 2017 48 min
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