S3E9 - A Tech Odyssey

The one about our bold tech predictions.

 

[start time travel ⏳]

 

The year is 2035.

 

It has been 15 years since the pandemic shut down the world. But at this time, the world has moved on.

Society has capitalised on big tech to innovate, adapt, and advance.

 

Self-driving cars dominate some city lanes, cash has gotten obsolete, robots populate shopping malls and industrial facilities, there is a new "Facebook" - but this time we pay for it to keep our privacy, AI has demolished call centres and put many lawyers out of business, Greta Thurnberg is president of something.

 

In 2035, things are not unfamiliar, yet feel extremely different.

 

It is a better world for some and a much more displaced world for others.

 

[end time travel ⌛️]

 

As we have seen in the last few years, some technological innovations have disrupted the business and social landscape and transformed how we live and work, and that change is only likely to rise.

 

As they say, change has never been this fast, and will never be this slow again.

 

On this episode, we sat with Aije, an old friend from high school and Senior Data Scientist and Statistician at IBM (she also runs a career development-focused page on Instagram). We tried to look into the future and make some tech-related predictions about what the future of business, work, and social life will look like!

 

 

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Timestamps

• [01:34]- Why we're talking about this
• [02:34]- Self-driving cars
• [06:03]- The future of developed and developing nations
• [15:06]- Privacy
• [39:25]- The future of jobs and the place of A.I.
• [54:40]- Embracing the future of tech
• [59:55]- Our big tech predictions

 

 

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