Scenario prompts are the first step in strategy development. Topics to consider universal speech translator, reframing management, KISS avatars, personal AI assistants, gurus or charlatans, strategy, techno-optimism, the 50 greatest innovations of 2023, digital transformation trends (and AgilePoint), brain implants, gadgets in 2053 and uploading your mind.
Your business in 2053?
Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages
A new suite of artificial intelligence models is making the concept of a Universal Speech Translator a reality.
The Drucker Forum Proposes Re-framing Management For The 21st Century
Innovation, ecosystems, society, augmentation, creativity and arts.
KISS says their future concerts will be performed by ‘forever young’ digital avatars
https://www.businessinsider.com/forever-young-digital-avatars-kiss-concert-retirement-2023-12
The band said their digital avatars were created using motion capture technology, with George Lucas’ visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, and Pophouse Entertainment, founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus.
When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off
https://spectrum.ieee.org/personal-ai-assistant
The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required.
You Need To Be Skeptical Of Advice From Business Pundits And Gurus. Here’s Why:
How can you both “focus on your core” and seek out “blue oceans?” It betrays logic that both strategies could outperform one another.
Four Strategic Mistakes
https://rishad.substack.com/p/four-strategic-mistakes?
Limiting your competitive sets, extrapolating todays realities into tomorrow, focus on technology trends and not incorporate talent dynamics.
My techno-optimism
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html?
I believe in a future that is vastly brighter than the present thanks to radically transformative technology, and I believe in humans and humanity.
The 50 greatest innovations of 2023
https://www.popsci.com/technology/best-of-whats-new-2023/?
Whether it’s a new medical treatment, infrastructure project, consumer product, or big idea, they almost always spring up as the solution to a problem. Some honorees address age-old annoyances while others speak to larger and even existential issues that profoundly affect people around the globe
10 Digital Transformation Trends for 2023 – Future-Proof Your Business
https://www.business2community.com/statistics-pages/digital-transformation-trends
Technical debt, impact, AI, LCNC, edge, cloud, composability, CX, IoT and security. Check out AgilePoint.
Brain Implant Sparks Remarkable Recovery in Patients With Severe Brain Injury
A commercially available neurostimulator was implanted into their thalamus in both brain hemispheres
Dispatch From the Future: The Must-Have Gadgets and Gear of 2053
https://www.wired.com/story/gadgets-and-gear-of-2053/
What will personal technology look like in 2053?
Uploading Your Mind to a Computer Will Require 3 Crucial Things
https://www.sciencealert.com/uploading-your-mind-to-a-computer-will-require-3-crucial-things?
The idea originated in an intellectual movement called transhumanism and has several key advocates including computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, philosopher Nick Bostrom and neuroscientist Randal Koene.
