The third industrial revolution has begun

When we sit on the cusp of a new method of production, one that moves us beyond the production line and returns us to a bygone era of artisans, bespoke, custom-made innovation and production, then it becomes necessary to re-frame the way we think about the way we create, own, distribute and have.

In this weeks’ on-air chat with David Dowsett of ABC radio we turned our attention to the recent announcement by St Vincent’s hospital in Melbourne that within 5 years they would begin trialling 3D printing of human body organs and that within 10 years printing of human spare parts may become “normal”.

This technology has been on the rise for a number of decades but technology, culture and medical advancements are all conspiring to make this the time that science fiction starts to turn into science fact.

3D printers will, over the next decade, evolve to print cars, homes and buildings, food, clothes, furniture and so much more as we begin to “manufacture” items in situ in real-time at our shops, factory’s, hospitals, homes and wherever we need to produce or have an “object”.

The world of innovation, manufacturing, global citizen equity and the ability to “have” will all be challenged as we see industry’s emerge, industry’s disappear and billionaires created in this brave new world.

Have a listen to the live recording and then let me know your thoughts on the new world of 3D printing:

Noodle making robots

Robots have long been the stuff of science fiction and many of us have grown up waiting for the day when our dreams might turn into technological reality.

In this morning’s regular look ahead David Dowsett of radio ABC and I took a look at robots and discovered that they are already here.

Telemedicine robots allows Doctors to virtually jump inside a moving mechanical device and transport themselves around hospitals and clinics engaging and treating patients along the way. Robotic surgeons use their robotic arms to accurately guide and oversee complex operations often in tandem with skilled physical physician hands. Nano robots are routinely swallowed into our body and then guided around to take internal x-rays and photographs. Robotic limbs replace lost, degenerated and non-existent limbs, as well as provide heart pumps and other life-giving robotically controlled devices.

In our offices and factory’s we see the increased use of teleworkers using robotic Segway like devices that allow executives to be in two places at once by jumping on-board a telerobot and riding it virtually around far away offices to attend board meeting in one country without ever having to leave the comforts of their own offices. Many of these devices cost no more than $250 and use PC tablets mounted on robotic shoulders and free software to see and connect you.

On our roads we can expect to see a fleet of driverless cars who know where you need to be and when, have real-time updates of the road conditions ahead and will chauffeur you to your destination in comfort and safety.

Robots are also entering the hospitality industry as noodle makers, hamburger flippers and sous chefs and in retail as clerks and sales assistants.

Robots as anthropomorphic, high functioning, independently thinking, self replicating humanoid machines are still a long way off. In theory they appear to be easy to create, but in reality are still beyond the ready boundaries of our capabilities and technologies.

There is much work being done in robotics and the most recent catalyst of this is the growth and convergence of big data, mobile technologies, changing culture and a growing appetite for robot like devices together with a practical and pragmatic future need to overcome a growing chronic shortage of workers in some industry’s.

For now, and the immediate future, we will have to contend ourselves with robots and mechanical devices that provide assistance with life and works more mundane and repetitive tasks.

Robots when they do arrive will bring with them many challenges. They will start and stop careers, industry’s and jobs. They will require us to grapple with the ethics and rights of robots and humans and make decisions that we have never had to make before as we learn to co-exist with machines.

The time to start these debates is now, for we are truly on the precipice of when not if as science fiction turns daily to robotic science fact.

Have a listen to the segment now…

3D Printing and Robots – the April Webinar

Science fiction becomes science fact in my BreadCrumb Innovation webinar this month as I finish off my series of three webinars on my 13 trends for 2013.

This month we took a look at robots in our offices, aged care facilities, warehouses, on the road and pretty much everywhere we look, and the heralding of the 3rd Industrial Revolution, the thing that will for ever change the way we see design, prototyping, manufacturing, retailing and every other thing we do and buy – 3D printing.

These horizon game changers need to be on every decision makers radar strategy screen and we must start thinking now how and when they may start disrupting and changing our world and business.

We also stopped off along the way to celebrate the 40th birthday of mobile phones and explore what this little invention has meant to the world and also chat about a couple of great teenagers with incredible innovation skills and what they’ve invented.

Have a look at this month’s webinar (47 minutes) and be sure to join me on Monday 13th May 2013 @ 1.00 p.m. AEST when I begin a series of webinars sharing the how, what, where, who and why of innovation, taking you behind the scenes of my BreadCrumb Innovation program and show you the step by step proven formula of how I bring Innovation and Foresight to an orgnaisation. click here to reserve your spot.

April 2013 Webinar – 3D printing & robots

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Australian Retail Outlook 2013

Here’s an excerpt from this year’s Australian Retail Outlook magazine with my thoughts on the year ahead for retail:

Aust Retail Outlook 2013

Your mother’s right, it’s good to share

There is a digital and burgeoning offline movement towards working together and sharing resources, rather than doing it all and owning it all and three (3) of the major movements in this new non-ownership meme are known as collaboration, co creation and the sharing economy.

In this week’s on-air discussion David Dowsett of ABC radio Wide Bay and I take a look at how to have “stuff” without owning it, or how to get more use and profit out of “stuff’ you own but aren’t using to its full capacity

It is not a communist or hippie throwback, but rather a twist on doing, having, renting and borrowing.

We took a quick tour through some websites and apps that collaboratively design t-shirts, jewellery, cars, solve scientific conundrums, seek funding for inventions, borrow homes, find local people to guide you around tourist destinations, short-term usage of people’s cars, borrow their dogs, rent space in their garages and homes and many other things you might need, but don’t want to own.

This collaborative mindset is also spreading itself into boardroom thinking by not only influencing resource ownership, but also in opening the possibility to co-creating products, services and business activities.

Take a listen now…

Co-creation, collaboration and peer to peer – March BreadCrumb Innovation Webinar

In the 60′s we got together held hands, physically touched each other, shared and sung kumbuya. Now we digitally gather, virtually hold hands, poke each other and audition online for youtube stardom.

In this month’s Futurevation webinar we went exploring down the road of collaboration, peer-to-peer and co creation to find out we’re not alone, that there are others out there and that collectively we are more purposeful than we may be on our own.

We stopped along the way to peer into the digital store-front of a myriad of websites and apps that are beginning to show and sell these new business paradigms and thinking; one in which control is banished in favour of management, where ownership is unnecessary as long as we can share resources and where we can outsource innovation to a group of virtual strangers.

Take a look and listen at this month’s webinar and as always please share your thoughts on what you see ahead.

BreadCrumb Innovation – The March Webinar

At next months FREE webinar on Monday 8th April @ 1.00 p.m. AEST we will take a look at printing hearts, homes, cars, clothes, records and food and the rise and rise of robots and what we can expect of them over the next decade or two.

Click here to reserve your free front row digital seat now.

Can we live to 100? Do we want too?

Before we know it, living to 120 years of age and beyond will be ordinary and expected. This life extension, lived in relatively good health and independence will require us to evolve society, culture, work, family, humanity and religion.

Many of our past societal norms, rituals, work patterns, family structures and behaviors were built on a life expectancy of less than 50 years, in a world where we traveled less that 20 kilometers our entire life from where we born. Where family, village and country where all we knew and we knew that because we were told it and not because we had the opportunity to discover and question it for ourselves.

As we move into a world where living longer is the norm, where self discovery and constant questioning become the norm, where we no longer seek out the world but demand it seeks us out, everything becomes negotiable and transactional.

The notion of living with the same person for 80 years and more will be in question; families with 4 and 5 generations alive will become the norm; working to 80 years of age will become expected, but what will work be and offer, what will family mean to us, how strongly will we cling to religion as our guiding example?

The questions are endless, but have to include asking ourselves how do we feed, clothe, house, water and offer quality of life and care to a growing world population that is set to exceed 9.1 billion people in 2050?

Added to this is also the rising middle classes across the developing world who are also living 50 – 60 years longer than their ancestors, with developed nations citizens living to 120 and a generally a whole lot more people standing on the planet than we have ever had before, the choices we make today, are very different from the one’s we had to make yesterday.

In this segment on Channel 7′s Today Tonight Clare Brady and I explore what living to 100 years of age might mean for us, what sort of world may we be growing older in and what opportunities and issues may be waiting for us?

Take a look now and let me know your thoughts on the world ahead and living to 100 years and beyond.

How to live to 100

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What do Ned Kelly, Al Capone and digital wallets all have in common?

Up to this morning’s interview with Celine Foenander on ABC Local I would have said nothing, but one of the recurring questions I get asked around digital wallets is how secure they are?

The answer is very secure, because it’s in the interest of the banks and credit card providers to make it as secure as possible, but of course as secure as they make it, there will always be someone who will try to outsmart them, just like Ned Kelly and Al Capone.

We soon turned our attention to the digital wallet future; migrating our physical cards, licences, passports, airline tickets and other stuff on to our mobile phones;what and how we will use this new technology for in the very near future and whether physical cash is becoming extinct.

Another plus with this interview is that Celine thinks I’m funny, not strange funny, but ha ha funny – go figure!

Anyway, have a listen and let me know your thoughts on digital wallets, less cash society’s and whether you think you think you’ll use it or not.

Listen now:

BreadCrumb Innovation – The FREE Webinar

I am kick-starting 2013 with a series of monthly webinars, sharing what’s ahead in , what’s important to know and who’s doing what to whom and with whom in the world of innovation, if you’re serious about keeping ahead of the curve then it will be the best 45 minutes you spend each month.

Here’s more and also booking details:

Morris Miselowski, CEO and Lead Business Futurist of 32 years with Your Eye On The Future, brings his world renowned innovation workshop to a computer screen near you, in a 45-minute LIVE Webinar.

Next FREE Webinar:
Tuesday 12th February 2013
at 1.00 p.m. (AEST)

book your FREE place now

Morris will unveil 2013’s dominant and developing trends, show you how they will impact you, explain what you need to do about them, by when and how.

He will also take you behind the scenes to see the hottest start-ups on the planet to experience what they’re inventing, innovating and working on, who’s interested in it, why and what it might mean to your business.

Morris will also help you take all this information and spin it into wisdom and $$$ by guiding you through his fail-safe step by step process of how to easily find, capture, understand, prioritise and implement new innovations, ideas, products and services, regardless of whether you’re a 1 or 100,000 person business.

In a world where everything you’ve ever known is now uncertain; where the enemy of innovation is execution and where every day feels like a month, it is imperative that you stay ahead of the curve and know what lies ahead for you, long before your competition and marketplace does.

Next FREE Webinar:
Tuesday 12th February 2013
at 1.00 p.m. (AEST)

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If you’re going to succeed into the Future you have to be able to answer all of these questions, now:

• how your industry and business is likely to evolve;
• how will what you do be done differently in the future;
• have you fully capitalised on your digital potential?
• what will consumers, customers, partners and collaborators
want from you in the future?
• how will they want it, where and when?
• are you ready to take maximum advantage from the brave
new world of omni-business, apps, the rise and rise of
mobile, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and 3D printers?
• how will changing management and workforce paradigms
affect you?
• how will the rise in global and virtual workforces change
your workforce?
• what impact does 60% of the world using phablets have on
you and your business’s bottom line?
• are you ready for the imminent onslaught of the” internet of
things”?

and these are only a small taster of tomorrow’s many quirky new questions.

With 32 years of hypothesising, strategising and profitably commercialising the future across 145 industries; 1000’s of corporations; tens of thousands of key decision makers and millions of audience members around the planet, Morris has the uncanny knack of turning all of these questions (and so many more) into money-making answers.

Next FREE Webinar:
Tuesday 12th February 2013
at 1.00 p.m. (AEST)

book your FREE place now

In his ongoing monthly webinar series Morris reviews what’s happened and happening this month in the land of innovation; where innovations and trends are headed; who’s making money and what they’re doing and which industries are flying and which are crashing.

Each month Morris also sets you a practical purposeful and profitable innovation challenge, gives you a set of how-to instructions to achieve it with and builds an accountability structure and innovation support network for you within which to achieve it.

If you’re sick of groundhog day and playing business catch up and are serious about leading your business into the future then you must take 45 minutes each month to learn what’s ahead so that you can be certain that every future decision you make listens to yesterday, but speaks to tomorrow.

You’re welcome to attend any two (2) BreadCrumb Innovation webinars FREE of charge.

Next FREE Webinar:
Tuesday 12th February 2013
at 1.00 p.m. (AEST)

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If you’d like to attend all of Morris’s monthly webinars, you can! (10 per annum run February through to November)

Investment for 5 x webinars – $395.00

Bonus each 5 x webinar attendee receives:
• a ½ hour one on one telephone innovation chat with Morris,
• 24 hour turn around on email questions, and
• full access to past webinar library

To join Morris’s next 5 Webinars send an email with your details to: 5webinars@BusinessFuturist.com

Investment for 10 x webinars – $695.00

Bonus each 10 x webinar attendee receives:
• a FREE 5 x webinar additional access pass for you to gift to a
colleague, or share with a friend (cannot be used to extend
subscription),
• one (1) hour one on one telephone innovation chat
with Morris,
• priority 12 hour turn around on email questions, and
• full access to a library of resources and past webinars

To join Morris’s next 10 Webinars send an email with your details to 10webinars@BusinessFuturist.com

 
Morris also runs the following additional monthly webinars

1. Wisdom Warriors

Morris’s elite collaborative group of Innovators and Entrepreneurs who demand to be the first to know everything and want to roll their sleeves up and get deep and dirty with it to figure out what it may mean to them and how to start making money from it now.

Frequency: Monthly
Duration: 60 minutes
Maximum Attendees: 10
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2. CEO / Key Decision Makers

How, when, where, why, when and who of growing, championing and implementing a profitable company wide innovation culture.

Frequency: Monthly
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Maximum Attendees: 20

Inquire for cost and space availability: CEOWebinar@BusinessFuturist.com

3. Internal corporate sponsored and developed webinar programs

Frequency: as required
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The Future of Education, Technology, People & Innovation

In our regular look ahead James Lush of ABC Perth and I looked at what’s over the horizon for:

Education – students will have 6 distinct careers, 14 jobs and live 100+ years; 60% of the job tasks they will do in the next 10 years have not been created yet; the traditional 3r’s – reading, writing, arithmetic- are great foundations, but our kids also need the 3 C’s – communication, collaboration and creative problem solving.

Technology – we have only just begun our technological journey and haven’t seen anything yet; and the imminent rise of the Internet of Things.

People – what will living to 120 mean?; will man and machine meld to the point where it is hard to recognise where flesh ends and machine starts?

Innovation – how Collaborative, Crowdsourcing and Co-create is changing the way we work play and live and why innovation is now a constant in our everyday world.

This is a great interview touching on lot’s of tomorrow’s horizon questions so have a listen now and let me know what you think tomorrow’s big questions are.