AI, Robotics, Digitalization & Technology: Innovation on the Rise
Dubbed the ‘Second Machine Age’, the period we are now entering will be characterized by a new wave of automation, digitalization and robotization.
#Forwardism: Adjiedj Bakas and Vinco David
- What does the future of AI, Robotics, Digitalization & Technology look like?
- How could AI Facial Recognition make airport logistics, boarding processes, shopping and entertainment options less bureaucratic and more customer-friendly?
- What two major geopolitical developments are powering the ‘Technetronic Revolution’ — a revolution in technology?
- How can the hi-tech combination of AI, Robotics, Digitalization & Technology advance further, making most administrative jobs redundant, and making many other industries more efficient.
- Will technology make the boring and mundane more fun?
- How does the rise of AI and Machine Learning now lead to automation in areas that were formerly the province of humans: observing and drawing conclusions, reasoning and deciding?
- In the Second Machine Age, are we more likely to see Keynesian ‘technological unemployment’ be a (semi) permanent feature in many societies.?
- Are machines really stealing our jobs?
- Is the wider public losing sympathy for technology-based businesses?
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Humanity will benefit from revolutionary innovation happening around our hyper-connected world.
#Forwardism: Adjiedj Bakas and Vinco David
- How does hi-tech innovation enable cybercriminals to operate?
- How is digital crime causing enormous damage to business and governments everywhere?
- Why must we prepare ourselves for more digital crises in the future?
- How does the competition between VHS and Betamax videotape formats in earlier decades represent the 21st century’s Digitization and Industry 4.0 revolution?
- Why does technology have two standards: the Western and the Chinese?
- Are Aerohaptic Holograms on their way?
- Have technology and globalization created a workplace that is no longer bound to a specific geographical location?
- Could digital collaboration become a new standard that creates a disconnect between the worker and their workplace?

At a time when more people are likely to lose their jobs to computers and robots, our intimate relationship with modern technology could go sour.
#Forwardism: Adjiedj Bakas and Vinco David
- Why must we reintroduce the human factor into work to foster creativity and innovation?
- What new risks and dangers accompany ongoing digitization?
- How do societal, legal, ethical and economic barriers to technology give working populations time to adapt to new circumstances?
- Why must there be significant investments and societal change to ensure the workforce reskills and upskills?
- Why does extra training prevent permanent unemployment that swells the disenfranchised, angry ranks of those who feel they lost out to progress?
- How is the new technological revolution not limited to one sector, but rather stretches across the whole economy?
- Why are low-skilled employees needed where wages are low and the cost of investing in machines is high?
- Why are jobs that rely on intellectual or emotional ability, as well as creativity, difficult to automate?
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