Life in 2030 will be… complex — In 2020, I wrote an article titled “The Next Big Thing” in Technology: 20 inventions that will change the world”. It has since been read over 100,000 times and shared more than 5,000 times on social media. But anyone reading it today will notice that what was written then is…

4 ways OpenAI’s GPTs will forever change the way we interact with the world… and each other — During last week’s DevDay, OpenAI, under the direction of CEO Sam Altman, unveiled a series of updates. The company introduced ‘GPT-4 Turbo’, enhancing affordability for external developers. This upgraded version expands ChatGPT’s knowledge base to include information up to April 2023, surpassing its previous limit of September 2021. Meanwhile, in…

13 jobs a child born today should aspire to — Humanity has long dreamt of creating tools to make the very idea of work obsolete, allowing us to live a life of peaceful satisfaction. Sadly, this will likely never happen; the nature of work is ever-changing, as we create new problems just as fast as we solve old ones. We…

Intelligent Lampposts : coming to a City of the Future near you — You heard it here first: as cities around the world embrace new technologies and become more efficient, sustainable, and livable, street poles will emerge as a crucial infrastructure element. Obviously, smart street poles are less appealing to the masses than flying cars and holographic adverts. The pragmatics among us will…

How a new trend is unveiling the future of music — The tsunami started in April 2023, as Drake released his hotly anticipated single (Ft The Weeknd), Heart on my Sleeve. It immediately received critical acclaim. Problem is… Drake had nothing to do with it; someone had used a free AI music generator to create a synthetic version of Drake’s voice…

VR movies are coming — how can Netflix come out on top? — Staying on top of the entertainment game is famously difficult. No only are trends forever changing, but so are ways of delivering content to the clamouring masses. Nowhere is this more visible than in the video industry. We used to get our movies on tapes. Then we got them on…

ChatGPT is great… if you know how to use it — ChatGPT has changed the game for many professions. None more so, perhaps, that in the consulting world. Strategy consultants, especially at the “lower” level of the pyramid, are expected to find information and offer scenarios to solve issues within companies (this is a wild over-simplification, but tracks based on experience). …

Europe is on the right path — the rest of the world should follow it — Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT into the wild in late 2022, the world has been abuzz with talks of Generative Artificial Intelligence and the future it could create. Capitalism’s fanboys see the technology as a net positive; the logical continuation of the digital world, which has contributed to the creation…

No, the company using orbs to scan your eyeballs does not have your best interest at heart — Tools for Humanity is a company co-founded by Sam Altman, the now-infamous CEO of OpenAI (of ChatGPT fame). The premise for the company’s flagship project, WorldCoin, is simple: Exponential improvements in Artificial Intelligence technology will one day lead to the creation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).