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I’m a technology futurist and international keynote speaker. I work with clients to understand practical applications for disruptive technologies. I have particular experience in AI, Education, Retail, Health and Financial Services. Explore my books below, Connect on LinkedIn or contact me for Speaking, Webinars & Workshops.
Can a Robot Blow Out a Candle?
Explore the big questions AI poses for the future of humanity. From AI companions to sharing our world with robots, discover the urgent, human-centric issues we are dangerously unprepared to answer.
This is an essential guide for anyone ready to wake up, reclaim agency, and start building a future that serves humanity.
Meet Your Non-Human Colleagues
Your next colleague won’t ask for a desk. It won’t join you for coffee. But it will be hired, managed, and may even become your boss. Are you ready to work with and for an AI?
Welcome to the new hybrid workforce.
This book provides a guide for leaders, managers, and professionals navigating this unprecedented transformation.
Executive’s Gen AI Handbook
Your one-stop guide to the world of Generative AI. A non-technical introduction to this powerful technology, covering what it is and isn’t, how to prepare for it, the regulatory context and a guide to prompt engineering.
“There’s no better primer for getting up to speed with AI.”
Executive’s AGenTIC AI Handbook
Your guide to the emerging world of Agentic AI and Agentic Commerce.
Understand the pivotal evolution from Generative AI, which creates content, to Agentic systems that reason, plan, and autonomously execute complex goals in the real world, including purchasing goods.
Prepare now for a trillion-dollar shift in the economy where AI agents become the primary shoppers.
With AI, we’ve built a machine we don’t understand.
The Opaque Machine is a unique exploration of our relationship with AI.
Drawing insights from diverse disciplines including Genetics, Quantum Computing, Psychology, Economics and History, The Opaque Machine is available for free download from TheOpaqueMachine.com or available to purchase from Amazon.
The Reviews:
"The Opaque Machine is a sophisticated, sobering, and essential contribution to AI philosophy. It distinguishes itself from the crowded market of AI books.
Recommended for tech executives and readers who enjoyed Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom or The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman but wanted more scientific scaffolding.”
Unlock Your Learning
Discover the breakthroughs in Cognitive Psychology in recent decades that, coupled with unprecedented levels of access to learning opportunities, herald a new golden age of learning.
Better Online Presenting
To help you stand out from the crowd and deliver the very best online presentations possible, this book takes you through the easy and free basic improvements right up to tips for aspiring professionals.
When Humans Stop Shopping
When Humans Stop Shopping is your comprehensive guide to the dynamic future of consumer commerce and to the technologies revolutionizing retail.
The New Acceleration
Are you ready for computers that can see, hear, talk and think? AI changes everything.
Recommended Reading for
Stanford CSP Course on AI
Life AS A PASSENGER
Your essential guide to one of the most
important new technologies this century
Recommended Reading for
Stanford CSP Course Self Driving Cars
EStars Classroom of the Future
Visit EStars to discover the future of learning.
Virus Hunters
Explore the technology breakthroughs catalysed by the pandemic and the diagnostic advances that can drastically improve world health