The Great Decoupling: An Interview with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee via HBR
“Today’s digital innovations are doing for brainpower what the steam engine, and related, technologies did for muscle power during the Industrial Revolution.”

What If You Didn't Have to Work for Money? via The Atlantic
“Ford cautions against what he calls the ‘libertarian/techno-optimistic fantasy’ of a private market solution. Government, for all its deficiencies, is going to be the only real tool in the toolbox here.’”

Silicon Valley is Lying to You via GQ
“Facebook’s stated mission, it reminds us ceaselessly, is to “connect the whole world”—a sappy global village philosophy that dovetails nicely with data mining and targeting ads”

MORE GOOD READS

Fossil fuel companies getting $10m a minute in subsidies, says IMF – Via The Guardian
“The IMF calls the revelation “shocking” and says the figure is an “extremely robust” estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments.”

What Hollywood can teach us about the future of work – via The New York Times
“This short-­term, project-­based business structure is an alternative to the corporate model, in which capital is spent up front to build a business, which then hires workers for long-­term, open-­ended jobs that can last for years, even a lifetime.”

Top 10 implantable wearables soon to be in your body via WT VOX
Implantable smartphones, healing chips, pills that talk to your doctor and more…

MY RECENT WORK

• The Future of Privacy in an Exponential World (#10) with Yuri Van Geest and Gerd Leonhard
• The Future of Cars & Transportation (#9) with Simon Torrance, Rohit Talwar & Gerd Leonhard
• Watch all our TFA Presents videos aqui
• O meu Future of Media slides from my talk at Eyes & Ears of Europe conf in Cologne.
• The Future of Mobile Content and Media – watch my presentation from MojoCon Dublin 2015 
• TFA member Rohit Talwar is releasing a powerful new book, “The Future of Business” on June 11th 2015, with some 60 futurists sharing their insights. I had the opportunity to contribute a chapter on ‘man and machine futures' to the book as well. Take advantage of the 30% pre-launch discount by going to the website's store and entering gl1 (case sensitive) when prompted.

• Join me on 23 June in London for a panel with Rohit Talwar and Gray Scott as we discuss ideas from The Future of Business book. Get tickets soon while they last!

​Last, but certainly not least, we're quite pleased to announce a new TFA member. Welcome, K D Adamson, to The Futures Agency! To discover more about her, visit her TFA profile page.