Category: Digital Future

Where Technology is Taking us: The Metaverse, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Tech Intercept, Immersive Reality, 3D Worlds, etc

Auxane Boch | Ep 21

Auxane Boch | Ep 21

Watch or listen: Video Games, Social Robotics and the Ethics of AI. In this episode we talk about how video games foster social integration and education. We discover the difference between ‘Interactional Systems’ and interactive tech, and the integration of AI-powered social robots in healthcare. We also talk about the ethical concerns surrounding AI, its…

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Supremacy – Parmy Olson

Supremacy – Parmy Olson

AI seems to be everywhere at the moment. The media machine and the echo chamber of social media algorithms have bathed my feeds in news, white papers, and academic articles about the latest digital revolution. I have to admit here that before reading Supremacy, my knowledge of AI and the large language models that drove…

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Rachel Wood | Ep 15

Rachel Wood | Ep 15

Watch or listen: AI and the Future of Work and Society. In this episode, I chat with Rachel Wood, a speaker, researcher, writer, educator, and therapist. We talk about Generative AI and Mental Wellbeing in the future workplace. Connect with the guests Rachel Wood Rachel is a speaker, researcher, writer, educator, therapist, and PhD candidate, researching…

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Dr Paul Marsden | Ep 10

Dr Paul Marsden | Ep 10

Watch or listen: The Human-AI Interaction In this episode, we explore AI, Positive Psychology, Digital Wellbeing and technology. Connect with the guests Dr Paul Marsden Paul is a Chartered psychologist specialising in consumer behaviour, wellbeing and technology. He is a university lecturer at UAL and a consultant consumer psychologist with Brand Genetics. Paul believes that the…

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The global attempt to reign in Artificial Intelligence

The global attempt to reign in Artificial Intelligence

What was originally considered Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction only a decade or so ago has become a reality or at least a potential certainty. It has been suggested that designers in Silicon Valley use SciFi as an inspiration for the creation of new technology. Although there is a practical perspective to AI, there are also…

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Can Meta Save Itself?

Can Meta Save Itself?

Opinion Piece (Updated 8 Nov 22) Meta (principally led by MZ) has been making a lot of noise this past year around what they are planning for their Metaverse creation. We touched on a recent interview with Joe Rogan and summarised a few of their plans early in September. However, the question that is currently…

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Current and future worker psychology is affected by how we use technology to do our work

Current and future worker psychology is affected by how we use technology to do our work

Anecdotally, it would seem that we have all, in one way or another, been impacted by the Lockdowns over the 2020/21 period. Professionally our psychology has shifted in how we are able to fulfil our work role.  Computer Self-Efficacy One of the many positive unintended consequences of Lockdowns, and remote work, is that we’ve become…

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