For the SF fans among our readership: Enabling teleportation:
Surrey University creates 6G Innovation Centre
With 2G, we could send ringtones, 3G we had pictures, 4G we had video, and in 5G we have virtual reality and augmented reality, which is 3D video. 6G should be four-dimensional, with sensors that transmit people’s touch, sense of smell and taste, and all the ambient information around a person. Professor Rahim Tafazolli in The Times, 12 November 2020
Top 10 emerging technologies 2020
We haven’t stopped innovating during the Covid. Here are some new technologies such as micro needles for painless injections, virtual patients, and lower carbon cement.
The big experiment
My eye was caught by this line in McKinsey’s Five Fifty series.
Crisis-fuelled experimentation has become a primary source of organic growth during the pandemic. But you’ve got to escape pilot purgatory first.
These five principles for how to scale up struck me as useful as we think about how to exploit our (forced) experiments.
- Start with customer facing initiatives – there is a bigger upside
- Use automation and data to isolate difficulties quickly and effectively
- Look for opportunities to standardise what you are learning
- Accelerate projects with common tools that lots of people can use
- Simplify and prune activities
Business models: from Linear to Circular to Regenerative
A thought provoking piece about where business models meet ecosystems, the post makes the case for moving beyond circular to giving back to nature directly.
The Montana beer brewery … is a good example of how to brew beer and make bread, healthy soil, clean water, energy, fish and algae in the process.
I was particularly intrigued by the comment ‘stop limiting ourselves to core business thinking, take a broader view of solutions.’
CripTales
If you haven’t already caught it on BBC4 the CripTales series is a must watch (all six episodes are available on the BBC iPlayer). Mat Fraser talks to Enable Magazine about the importance of commissioning disabled writers and creatives and how CripTales is intended to open up new, long overdue opportunities.
Finding romance after amputation, trying to catch a benefits cheat, to grappling with continued rejection in the arts, CripTales is a genre bending, thought provoking – and challenging – series set to change society’s perception of disability.
Even more so, CripTales is getting disabled voices into the mainstream from the initial script all the way to acting on screen.
Photo London Digital 2020
If you missed any of the talks or discussions during Photo London this year, they are now available on demand on their Facebook page. A very rich array, and a true celebration of photographic practice.