Fast Forward by Tomorrow Unlocked: Tech past, tech future

A fresh look at data access in the age of The Cloud. With so many thoughts, images and memories digitally logged and uploaded, is it only a matter of time before our past catches up with us? Are there better ways to store our information? Our data has been forming its own infrastructure of billions of blogs, documents and emails we no longer use.

Ken Hollings talks with data engineer and University of Michigan Associate Professor o...

Trailer: A fresh look at data access in the age of The Cloud. With so many thoughts, images and memories digitally logged and uploaded, is it only a matter of time before our past catches up with us? Are there better ways to store our information? Our data has been forming its own infrastructure of billions of blogs, documents and emails we no longer use.

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Early supermarkets created the perfect environment for innovation, with shoppers ready for anything that could spice up their retail routine. Ken Hollings carts listeners through the aisles of today’s supermarket, where interactivity and augmented reality play an increasing role in the shopping experience. QR codes and RFID chips give customers quick access to recipes, advice on nutrition and information on freshness and origin.

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Early supermarkets created the perfect environment for innovation, with shoppers ready for anything that could spice up their retail routine. Ken Hollings carts listeners through the aisles of today’s supermarket, where interactivity and augmented reality play an increasing role in the shopping experience. QR codes and RFID chips give customers quick access to recipes, advice on nutrition and information on freshness and origin.

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The concept of the City of the Future has been around a long time. Dozens of cities have been refashioned at some point as global centers for commerce, culture or data. What impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had on urban life? Has working at home ushered in a new era of new digital suburbs?

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The concept of the City of the Future has been around a long time. Dozens of cities have been refashioned at some point as global centers for commerce, culture or data. What impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had on urban life? Has working at home ushered in a new era of new digital suburbs?

Shoshanna Saxe, professor in civil engineering at University of Toronto, explains why the dumb parts of the smart city matter. We hear how COVID...

TRAILER: Set in the haunted Victorian parlor, we look at a famous test for machine intelligence from that era and its implications today. 

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Set in the haunted Victorian parlor, we look at a famous test for machine intelligence from that era and its implications today. A machine, legendary code-breaker Alan Turing argued, might be intelligent if it can lie convincingly.

Presenter Ken Hollings suggests a machine must learn on its own terms how to fool us, and Eric Drass, aka the artist Shardcore, says we should reconsider what we mean by intelligence. Kaspersky security ...

We look inside the automated workspace of tomorrow and ask why machines should look and behave like us.

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In 1920, Czech writer Karel Čapek imagined a workforce of scientifically engineered humanoids ready to serve our every need in his play R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots. It does not end well for us. We look inside the automated workspace of tomorrow and ask why machines should look and behave like us. Presenter Ken Hollings examines how we’ll work with AI and robots in the future.

What do humans still do better than machines? Dr. ...

In this final episode, space is the new place. Alongside authentic recordings from space, we visit the Moon, Mars and beyond and consider proposed future missions like the lunar space station, mining on the Moon and crewed missions to Mars.

Chris Welch of the International Space University and president-elect of the British Interplanetary Society explains how space exploration programs have changed. Tanja Masson-Zwaan, Assistant Pr...

In this final episode, space is the new place. Alongside authentic recordings from space, we visit the Moon, Mars and beyond and consider proposed future missions like the lunar space station, mining on the Moon and crewed missions to Mars.

Chris Welch of the International Space University and president-elect of the British Interplanetary Society explains how space exploration programs have changed. Tanja Masson-Zwaan, Assistant Pr...

If you like Fast Forward, Insight Story will be right up your street. With businesses drowning in information on the latest tech, this new podcast from Kaspersky explores tech trends in ways that can help business leaders decide how to use them, or not. Guests include top thinkers in commerce, research and tech globally, with host Susi O'Neill and robot guide, Doll-E. Click follow to get Insight Story - tech trends unpacked for ...

What will we wear in digital worlds? Can we find meaningful virtual intimacy? Could digital bio-twins help us make better choices?

The award-winning audio series examining trends shaping technology from the perspective of the recent past, Fast Forward, is back. Season 2 looks at how technological change is affecting us as living human beings.

In each episode, writer and presenter Ghislaine Boddington asks global experts to scan th...

Metaverses are immersive virtual worlds accessed through gaming consoles, VR headsets and computers. In them, you can do almost anything you’d do in the real world, and express your individuality through fashion. And you can start to learn how to interact with others in the metaverse, such as playing sports in teams. Interestingly, the metaverse itself is already changing what these activities will likely mean to us in future.

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Gaming companies have long wanted their games to appeal to women. Early successes like Pac-Man showed the size of the untapped market, while ironically, Ms. Pac-Man missed the mark. How should games companies work to better reach wider audiences?

Ghada Almoqbel, CEO of Saudi Arabia’s girls’ gaming community GCON, and Jennifer Donahue, Head of Publishing and Marketing at US online game-makers HiDef, join series writer and presenter ...

Technology has long triggered change in the home – from telephones, to television, and now telepresence, with mass data flowing through high-speed broadband, streaming and voice assistants. And it’s never been easy for parents to know how to keep children safe.

Writer and presenter Ghislaine Boddington talks to Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, about how today’s tech is changing family ...

In the future, will we each have a digital bio-twin beside us, ready to whisper in our ear when our biometric data shows we’re at risk?

Scientists say genes affect our lifespan by just 10 to 25 percent, making preventing illness key to extending our lives. Today, tech that quantifies our biophysical performance abounds, and more is on the way.

But how should we protect our precious and private health information, while taking adva...

When researchers created a ‘third thumb’ prosthesis and taught people how to use it, they found changes in the brain. As we see advanced convergence of embedded body tech into non-medical uses, we must explore the potential for unintended consequences alongside benefits like productivity and convenience. Today, systems like passports and medical ethics struggle to accept people augmented for non-medical reasons. Will we need a ...