Futurology

The Futurology Team brings you some insights episodes around the release of the most highly-anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley, Mary Meeker’s Digital Insights. This year’s report includes 355 slides and tons of information and the team take a look at some of the topics in the report.

The Futurology Team brings you some insights episodes around the release of the most highly-anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley, Mary Meeker’s Digital Insights. This year’s report includes 355 slides and tons of information and the team take a look at some of the topics in the report.

The Futurology Team brings you some insights episodes around the release of the most highly-anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley, Mary Meeker’s Digital Insights. This year’s report includes 355 slides and tons of information and the team take a look at some of the topics in the report.

The Futurology Team brings you some insights episodes around the release of the most highly-anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley, Mary Meeker’s Digital Insights. This year’s report includes 355 slides and tons of information and the team take a look at some of the topics in the report.

The Futurology Team chats to Yatish Nasri, the CXO of Design Partnership, about the future of Retail Design. With online retailers like Amazon leading the charge, technology has had a massive impact on how people shop and the experience they have. The change is speeding up. Digital meets the Physical, and we see online retailers treading where other traditional retailers are failing - into Bricks and Mortar. We look into the world of retail design, experience and where this is all going!

Following on from the last episode of the Future of Startups, the team chats to Brett Commaille (yes another Brett) about the future of the VC space and how it has evolved over the many years and where it is going to. Brett is the CEO of Angle Hub, an angel investment business that operates out of Cape Town.

The Futurology Team chats to Will Green (@willjngreen) about the future of startups, where we throw back on what startups meant 10 years ago to now... and then throw forward to what a startup could be like in the future. Will is a successful founder in the world of media with Apurimac Media, where he partnered with businesses like Yahoo. Now he is back out there in the world of Fintechs and changing humanity with his new startup Colab.

The Futurology team chats to Suren Govender (@suren_govender), CEO of Fibered, about where the world of connectivity is going. Why is this so important? Well, the cloud starts in the ground. In fact, without connectivity we have nothing and our future is dependent on how connectivity gets rolled out. This is really a show about the future of our future.

The Futurology Team chats to Dr Craig Nossel, head of Vitality Wellness - Discovery’s incentive-based wellness programme - about where the future of health is going. They look at the shift from prevention to proactive well-being and happiness. #whatsthefuture #lookbackthrowforward

The Futurology team chats to Wayne Bishop, MD of phd Media Johannesburg, about where media has come from and is going to. They explore how media has changed from the days where we just had TV, print and radio... to the new digital age and the impact that technology has on how people make buying decisions.

Brett Lindsay spends time discussing SXSW with Gareth Cliff after his recent trip to Austin, Texas to attend and present at SXSW. They discuss some of the amazing things coming out of this year's show, and what the future looks like with all the new technology being revealed.

The Futurology Team chats to Lee Naik and Brett Loubser - two experts on the topic of where data has come from and where it's going to. They explore how humanity has stored and used data in the past, going as far back as rock paintings... all the way through to what the future holds for data when it comes to Quantum storage and real time data streamed from billions of IoT sensors. A complicated topic which is the basis of everything that is happening in digital, artificial intelligence and the future of life or death. Now THAT is deep!

The Futurology Team chats to Jon Hoehler about the future of mobile... and also get an update about MWC 2017, which happened earlier this year in Barcelona. Five years ago mobile was all about the penetration of devices and network coverage at the best possible price point. We have seen a major trend of smartphone growth and drop in price of data. Apps and device features have changed the way we live - where is it going and what are the driving forces? What is the hot networking technology that is redefining connectivity?

The Futurology team speaks to The Better Trading Company Managing Director, Stephen Wormald, about how they are changing rural farming through big data. They chat about how this impacts food stability and the future sustainability of farmers.

The Futurology show welcomes back Jeffrey Mann from Gartner to tell us more about the 2017 Symposium and the Aspiring Innovators Programme. Your hosts Brett Lindsay, Brett St Clair and Michael Cowen get personal and discuss what makes them tick as humans, philosophers, disruptors and renegades. The team also welcomes Francois Brill of BIGBrave to discuss 'Design Thinking' - what it means, what it does and how it’s changing the way we look at the future. #thefutureiscoming

The Futurology team chats to Strate CEO, Monica Singer, about how Strate is using Blockchain for the electronic settlement of financial instruments in South Africa (bonds, money markets, equities).

The Futurology team reviews the past few episodes and discusses the impact of disruption on society, education, business and daily living. As always they look to the future and forecast areas of change that are still to come. #thefutureiscoming

The world is moving so fast and the Futurology team look at how we compete and win while testing and iterating. Justin Coetsee of Ignitor joins the Bretts and Michael.

This week the Futurology team take on the future of machine learning - what does it all mean? Listen to the discussion around the ins and outs of Machine Learning, AI and the impact of all of this progress on jobs, innovation and the future.

Are we a smarter or wiser society and what is the impact on our careers? Brett Lindsay, Brett St Clair, and Michael Cowen - with guest Karen Walstra, Head of Education at Google - take a look at how the connected world has allowed us to socially share fails of others, but also to have access to a wealth of global collaborative knowledge.