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Podcast episode 7: With flexibility comes complexity
About Fast FutureIt is our mission to explore the implications of emerging technologies, seeking answers to next-level questions about how they will affect society, business, politics and the environment of tomorrow. We aim to inform and inspire through thoughtful...
The race to 5G
That 5G is going to be the successor network to 4G LTE isn’t in question by analysts, but rather the question is how fast. Right now we are seeing several carriers driving hard to offer their customers a first taste of 5G. They are moving faster than...
Four companies using IoT and automation to improve manufacturing processes
Manufacturers have always been an early adopter of new technologies. Efficiency experts have been involved with improving manufacturing processes since the turn of the 20th Century. They focused on enhancing the quality of goods, lowering costs, eliminating waste,...
Podcast Episode 5: The future of shopping isn’t algorithmic
Rory Sutherland is a real-life advertising industry Mad Man. The Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK isn’t convinced artificial intelligence will do all our shopping for us, as Amazon predicts. Sutherland insists purchases are made with emotion, not machine learning. Can’t get...
The future of shopping in the age of AI
One of the biggest brains at Amazon is working on a plan to deliver products to you whether you ordered them or not. Leveraging machine learning to predict what you need before you need it is expected to be big business, according to the Amazon Web Services big data...
Futurithmic Podcast Episode 2: The State of AR/VR Art
As the industry overcomes technical hurdles of Augmented and Virtual Reality, it’s grappling with an existential crisis: how to remain ethical in the race to be first with new technologies. Dan Robbins, of industry frontrunner HTC, dives into the technical and the...
AI is both empowering and flawed
We love our prediction machines. Modern statistics helped us make more informed decisions. It is supposed to help us make more objective judgments by moving us away from gut instincts or the claims of self-appointed sages. But, we often forget how deeply...
From killer robots to automated colleagues
The further integration of automated processes and machines in our workforce is an inevitable future, but even robo-geeks would admit that their enthusiasm might not be shared by all. The future of human-machine co-existence requires the consideration of direct and...
Futurithmic Podcast Episode 1: Augmenting ourselves
Augmenting our appearance may seem like a Black Mirror episode, but it’s coming. And when it does, what does this mean for our sense of self if we can change who we are on a person by person basis? AR author and artist Galit Ariel breaks down the issues of identity in...