{"id":37601,"date":"2020-11-13T03:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?post_type=emagazine&#038;p=37601"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:27:37","slug":"tech-future-work","status":"publish","type":"emagazine","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/secure-futures-magazine\/tech-future-work\/37601\/","title":{"rendered":"Why listen to these tech high-flyers about your work future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new two-part video series, The Future That Works, probes the minds of people who are harnessing AI and emerging technologies to help solve some tough problems. They see work changing beyond recognition in the future, but it\u2019s not all bad.<\/p>\n<p>Watch The Future That Works, Part 1:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_HPMCm_wpU?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why listen to these people when it comes to predicting our technological future? Let\u2019s take a look at some of the innovative businesses they front.<\/p>\n<h2>Breaking our addiction to devices and social media<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Simby<\/a> is a fully personalized, wearable AI technology that aims to break our addictions to our devices and social media while still giving us all the benefits of being digitally connected. Co-founder and head of product Andrew Doherty believes technology should benefit our lives and do no harm, and that users should have full control of their data. This \u2018sassy best friend\u2019 is still under development but coming soon.<\/p>\n<h2>The buzz around Beep<\/h2>\n<p>Organizations can be as buggy as bad software, with minor frustrations putting a damper on everyone\u2019s concentration and creativity. Doing something about these problems can feel like swimming upstream, especially when management doesn\u2019t understand how much energy small annoyances suck out of their staff.<\/p>\n<p>Katz Kiely is part of the team behind <a href=\"https:\/\/wearebeep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Beep<\/a>, a system that rewards and recognizes people for raising problems and finding solutions in their business. It puts leaders in touch with their employees\u2019 real challenges, flattening the hierarchy and reconnecting people with meaning in their work.<\/p>\n<h2>Growing a business like a garden<\/h2>\n<p>Author and tech entrepreneur Aaron Dignan knows exactly how hierarchy and bureaucracy hold back progress in business. He gleaned this wisdom from in-depth study of organizations known for adapting to change and getting fast results, like Spotify, Burning Man and Basecamp.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not only published these findings for the benefit of other entrepreneurs in his popular 2019 book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Brave-New-Work-Reinvent-Organization\/dp\/024136180X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brave new work: Are you ready to reinvent your organization<\/a>? He\u2019s also founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/theready.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Ready<\/a>: An \u2018operating system\u2019 that helps businesses change their culture and see themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-ready\/the-operating-system-canvas-420b8b4df062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">more as a garden than a machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch The Future That Works, Part 2:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xsYoUXRDAc?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;start=42&amp;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Smartening up the factory<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudnc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CloudNC<\/a> is bringing safety and accuracy to factories with AI and autonomous manufacturing. Their clients manufacture parts for air travel, space exploration and defense, among other industries, where perfection is necessary every time.<\/p>\n<p>Full automation in manufacturing also allows for on-demand production. This option is in high demand since COVID-19 has made the global market and labor supply hard to predict. Co-founder Theo Saville says <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudnc.com\/an-interview-with-theo-saville-forbes-europe-2019-manufacturing-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">making manufacturing more environmentally sustainable is also top of CloudNC\u2019s agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Blockchain on the farm<\/h2>\n<p>Agriculture is one of the fastest-changing industries on the planet, while soil depletion, habitat loss and methane emissions come to the fore in the public consciousness. Farmers often face little choice in how they operate because they\u2019re time-poor, isolated and face high set-up costs for change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriledger.io\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AgriLedger<\/a> Founder and CEO Genevieve Leveille wants farmers to get the best price for their hard work, giving them more choice and making sure doing better for people, animals and the environment pays dividends. Using blockchain, AgriLedger brings users benefits like supply chain traceability, market information and access to finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prevailing wisdom is that the fast pace of automation, digital change and AI (artificial intelligence) will soon leave most of us jobless. Talking with some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs around the world, not one agreed with this dark premonition. Rather, they pointed to a different kind of future we should prepare for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":37631,"template":"","coauthors":[3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-37601","1":"emagazine","2":"type-emagazine","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"emagazine-category-scale-your-business-business","7":"emagazine-tag-ai","8":"emagazine-tag-automation","9":"emagazine-tag-the-future-that-works"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/secure-futures-magazine\/tech-future-work\/37601\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/secure-futures-magazine\/tech-future-work\/22873\/"}],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/emagazine\/37601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/emagazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/emagazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}