There Is No Evidence That Homework Improves Academic Performance

#FutureNow, Creativity, Future World of Work, Generations, Trends

If research shows that the primary reason children are given homework is not being achieved, surely we need to take a serious look at why we continue to issue it, and if we can’t find a good reason to carry on, then we must stop it all together? This seems like...

Does This Future Frighten You Or Excite You?

#FlyingUnstable, #FutureNow, Infographic, Trends

The future is a difficult place to spend time in. It requires us to use our imagination to go there and blend what we know with what we’re imagining. Sometimes we’re left with a difficult world to process. For some that’s frightening, and for others,...

Jobs That Robots Will Not Replace

#FlyingUnstable, Disruption, Leadership, Organisational Development, Scarce Skills, Technology, Trends

Are robots taking our jobs? Over the last few weeks, I’ve written a few posts around machines and robots and how they’ll be kicking you out of your job as soon as they build one that can, which won’t be very long at all. You can read those here, and here. According to...

Are We As Smart As We’re Ever Gonna Be?

Scarce Skills, Trends

Are we about as smart as we’re ever gonna be? Put another way, have we reached the top end of our brain’s ability to think, without some intervention from ourselves, or at least the cleverest of the cleverest selves among us? This is the question I was...

What If Darth Vader Was Female?

Blog, Featured, Trends

Star Wars is one of my favourite epic series of all time, and forever and ever to come. In fact just 2 weeks ago I won an online auction at Bid or Buy for a Darth Vader Lego Mini-Figure. So when Catri (my colleague at Calidascope) told me she was sending a link that I...

Remember The Video Store? Here’s How You’ll Explain It To Your Kids One Day :-)

Blog, Featured, Technology, Trends

Next month I’m speaking at the Dscoop Conference in Italy. As part of my prep I’ve been researching technology changes that have impacted different industries. Leigh Murphy of Masscash sent this clip to me. It’s a nostalgic clip that’ll make...