Technology Futurist | Author | Keynote Speaker
Making Sense of AI.
And what else is coming.
Exploring how artificial intelligence is changing business, society and everyday life — and helping people understand the choices that will shape our future.
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Four Latest Releases. Pick the one written for you.
For Executives
The Executive's AI Strategy Handbook
Capability, Control and Cost
The three decisions that separate an AI strategy from an AI spending habit — written for leaders who sign off the budget.
For Merchants
The Second Customer
A Merchant’s Guide to Selling to AI Agents
Your next customer may be an AI agent shopping on someone’s behalf. How to be found, chosen and paid when the buyer isn’t human.
For the Curious
The Contradiction
Is Us
Essays on how everyone, and no one, is choosing our AI future
Everyone is choosing our AI future, one decision at a time. No one is choosing what those decisions add up to.
For Everyone
What to Hand
Over to AI
and What to Keep for Yourself
A practical guide for everyday life
An exploration of the assistants, wearables and agents worth trusting, and the decisions worth keeping human.
The Executive’s AI Handbook Series
Introducing Generative AI
The Executive's AI Strategy Handbook
Capability, Cost & Control
The three decisions that separate an AI strategy from an AI spending habit — written for leaders who sign off the budget.
Introducing Agentic AI
The 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.
Building an AI Strategy
The 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.
The Impacts of AI
An Overview of AI
The New Acceleration
An introduction to Artificial Intelligence and the technologies making life faster
The New Acceleration is an easy-to-read overview of the key technologies shaping our world. The new capabilities of computers and other devices have huge implications for business, for society and for individuals - bigger than the impact of any technological change to date.
AI & The Future of Work
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.
Our Relationship with AI
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.
Driverless Cars
Life As A Passenger
The world we live in today has been built around cars and their human drivers. Few technologies have been as economically important and transformative as the automobile - it determines where we live, where we shop as well as how we spend our time and our money. It also kills over a million people a year. All that changes now.
The decisions we make about driverless technology will shape our society for decades to come - this book explores the changes and challenges ahead. Get ready for Life As A Passenger.
The Future of Retail
When Humans Stop Shopping
People have stopped shopping in the ways we've all been used to, and the next few years will see further dramatic changes as many humans stop shopping altogether - opting instead to let algorithms make their purchase decisions for them.
The Second Customer
A Merchant’s Guide to Selling to AI Agents
Your next customer may be an AI agent shopping on someone’s behalf. How to be found, chosen and paid when the buyer isn’t human.
The Future of Learning
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.
Whether you’re learning for fun or pursuing a formal qualification, you need to dispel myths about learning and apply proven techniques to learn more effectively.
EStars Classroom of the Future
The Classroom of the Future imagines how we can create learning spaces fit for the future. Our approach to education needs to be overhauled to reflect the rapidly changing world our children will inhabit. The Classroom of the Future is an ambitious project to reimagine education for the next generation.
The Long View | A Philosophical Trilogy
The Metis Imperative
The Metis Imperative is an expansive and ambitious project. A detailed, multi-disciplinary exploration of the long term changes facing humanity.
Examining the Promethean Convergence of AI, Robotics, Longevity and Resources, this unique collection challenges us to discover the wisdom (metis) to build the world we want.
From the Archives
Better Online Presenting
Content, Delivery, Sound, Video
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.
While content is still king, engaging with your audience via online presenting brings its own specific challenges. The good news is that, with a few adjustments and minimal investment, you can quickly set yourself apart from those who don’t lean in to the new realities.
Simple tips to make the most out of your environment, positioning and lighting can lift your image from messy to good. Targeted spend on upgrades appropriate to your situation can overcome challenges and make your presentation stand out. And if you want to go all out, there’s an amazing range of top quality accessories to put you on a par with broadcast quality productions, all from your home.
Presenting online is undoubtedly different than presenting in person - this book is intended to help presenters used to delivering speeches, pitches or lectures in boardrooms, classrooms and auditoria who now find themselves facing a camera instead of an audience.
Virus Hunters
COVID’s Diagnostic Dividend
In 2020, viral testing technologies changed the world, enabling mass, rapid, accurate diagnosis. This contributed to the saving of hundreds of thousands of lives. So now we need to ask, how can further such developments be encouraged and accelerated, so that similar approaches can be used to anticipate and limit the health damage from mutating or new pathogens with pandemic-causing potential?
Improving accuracy and speed in identifying infectious agents has the potential to reduce the global disease burden, save countless lives and protect economic growth. Thanks in part to the extra investment and focus arising from the pandemic, there’s never been more interest in diagnostics, but we must not let our progress slip as the COVID-19 threat loses its urgency for many - we must instead redouble our efforts to ensure we build on the progress of recent years truly to secure the diagnostics dividend.
Virus Hunters examines the state of viral testing and points to the technologies and policies required to bring the benefits of improved testing to improve global healthcare.
Your Phone Can Save Your Life
How you can benefit from the biggest revolution in the history of medicine
In Your Phone Can Save Your Life, learn how your phone can monitor your vital signs, encourage you to live a healthier life and even get you an instant appointment with a doctor.
For the first time in history, everyone can have access to medical technology that was once the sole preserve doctors and hospitals. It's now easy to use, portable and affordable or even free. But with this extraordinary development comes the challenge of finding the technologies that are right for you and the responsibility to embrace them if you want to live longer.
Exploring solutions from sleep and environment monitoring to stress management, exercise and nutrition, this book gives you an easy-to-follow head start so you can benefit from the new health revolution and help ensure we're not the first generation to die younger than the previous one.