Future

There is no doubt we are facing a new wave for the economy, business and leadership. In order to shed some light on the future trends, get some fresh insights and provide clarity, we challenged two great minds – Kevin Jackson and Professor Lucija Mulej Mlakar.

Shorn of the usual political news cycle, and thrown back on royals attending church services at Christmas to supply "news", some media in the UK have given top billing over the festive season to a long dead-Bulgarian blind mystic's predictions for the coming year.

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the mainstream business domain. According to research conducted by BCG and the MIT Sloan Management Review, AI will have a major impact, in all industries, within the next five years. What companies / industries will AI initially impact?

As ships, stations, and other satellites come crashing down to Earth, many end up making planet-fall at the same spot in the Pacific Ocean just south of New Zealand. For years these downed science vessels have simply sunk down to the bottom of the sea in a place now known as the Spacecraft Cemetery.

Trying to get children to understand artificial intelligence is a feat in its own right. Explaining how it could one day become smarter than us is an entirely different challenge.

Supercomputers to Superintelligence