Would you want to meet a deceased relative or friend in virtual reality? How this plays out and what it means for humans is one of the topics...
Enterprise Garage Newsletter | February 20th, 2020
When AI & virtual reality guarantee tears
Tears are guaranteed when you see the video of the South Korean mother who meets her deceased seven-year-old daughter again in a virtual reality. The way the emotionally overwhelmed mother tries to touch the child, talks to her and celebrates her birthday together gives us an idea of what new technologies can cause in our society. When AI and VR provoke such strong reactions, the questions of what is real and what is not, and whether we should or should not, become very difficult to answer.
The use of VR/AR to help people with their grief, or the use of robots and AI, as with the Paro seal to get dementia patients in retirement homes out of their isolation, are tools to give people dignity and provide care. Even if we had enough nurses and doctors (in a rapidly aging population like Japan this possibility no longer exists), we should see these technologies and approaches as an opportunity and not demonize them from the get-go.
But see for yourself how Mrs. Jang Ji-sung meets her daughter Nayeon, who died at the age of seven: Link
In my latest book (in German) When Monkeys Teach Monkeys I discuss such ethical and moral questions in detail. Let me know what you think...
Book Suggestion
Two ton robots in the wild? Electric cars destroy the environment? Read more about facts and myths on mobility. May I suggest a book of mine that just hit the book stores this past October? In
The Last Driver's License Holder
Has Already Been Born
I deal with many aspects of the technological and demographic changes and what it means for our societies, cities, regions, and jobs. The book's available on Amazon or any book store.
Articles & News
Here is a collection of interesting articles and blogs:
"More than the past I am interested in the future, because I am planning to live in it."
- Albert Einstein
If you want to provoke insights about the future, then you may want to consider a Foresight Mindset workshop with me. Such a team-workshop includes the following topics, including many tasks in small groups:
Five phases of the Foresight Mindset Cycle
What is Foresight?
Forecast versus Prediction
What are Signals and Trends?
What are Cassandras?
Introduction to the methods
Future Benchmarking
Futures Wheel
Scenario Planing
Backcasting
Messages from the Future
Storytelling
Trend Recognition
...
Foresight Mindset as strategic discipline
Where does Foresight fail and how can we avoid that?
Ethical questions about Foresight Mindset
The aim of the workshop is not only to have understood the foresight methods, but also to have scenarios and a feeling of a better overview of the future and the necessary steps and procedures. If you are interested in further workshops with 10-30 participants, then let's talk about it. Just send me an email.
Keynotes & Workshops
Here is a complete overview (with videos from past talks) of my upcoming engagements in winter and spring. They are all around the disruptions in the automotive industry, the Silicon-Valley-Mindset, Foresight Mindset and how to discover trends early, and now also about Artificial Intelligence and its application, which will be the topic of my upcoming book (February 2020).
Düsseldorf
Hamburg
Berlin
Munich
Frankfurt
Stuttgart
Carnuntum
Zell am See
Oslo
If you have time and are interested meeting for coffee and discussing those topics, feel free to send me an email.
