In a future world there may not be a retirement age, we may not all be working 9 -5 work, we may not have job descriptions and we will almost certainly not have culturally sanctioned employment certainty. In this new landscape of employment we will work project and task, work at any age, work wherever […]
Wristbands that use your heartbeat to unlock your wallet, car and home; artificial limbs restoring sense of touch; injected bandages that can stop bleeding within 15 seconds, 3D printed homes and wireleslly charged busses make their way on to Britain’s roads, were just some of the top tech and innovation stories David Dowsett of ABC […]
All things future was the brief for my chat with Sheridan Stewart of New England ABC local radio and that’s pretty much where we took it, everywhere. We chatted about the future of communication and journalists and dealt with the perennial question of would we need them moving forward. My answer, as always, is that […]
There’s a lot of conversation going on around the future of careers and jobs, given recent manufacturing and mining redundancy announcements and it has everyone asking what careers and jobs are future proof and which are not. Firstly many of today’s and yesterdays professions will still be around including – teachers, doctors, health professionals, retailers […]
With all the understandable uncertainty around jobs and careers triggered by Holden and Toyota’s recent shutdown announcements listeners to Geoff’s ABC Perth Breakfast show were wondering what their kids should be studying and what Future careers might be available to them. We started by looking at the realty that many of today’s careers are going […]
With school starting back around Australia, it’s a perfect time to ask ourselves the perennial question of which careers and future are we preparing our kids for? As a baby boomer, my world of education asked me at the end of my final year of high school to make one (1) career choice and to […]