
I recently visited the BMW Group’s plant in Munich, which is a monument to automation. The single assembly line stretches across multiple floors and it’s packed with robots, silently and…
I recently visited the BMW Group’s plant in Munich, which is a monument to automation. The single assembly line stretches across multiple floors and it’s packed with robots, silently and…
“Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.” These were the words…
“Everything that can be digitised, will be,” writes futurist Gerd Leonhard in his latest book, Technology vs. humanity: The coming clash between man and machine, which discusses digitisation as the “technological…
Groups of youngsters and adults alike have been spotted gathering in unusual places, eyes glued to their smartphones. They’re looking for something: little monsters called Pokémon. Unlike our own childhood…
Imagine if you could achieve maximum scale, speed and agility in your biggest product line. Imagine if scale means you could save 30% in capital costs, speed means you could…
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black”, famously said Henry Ford, celebrating his invention of mass production. Fast forward…
I recently read an article on work becoming optional by 2033. Well, this sounds like wonderful news for all of us who spend lots of extra hours at our desks….
40 years ago, before personal computers existed and rotary dial phones were in use, mainframe computers, which were used primarily by large organisations and able to automatically process large batches…
There are no patriotic reasons behind reshoring, although today, many politicians are trying to navigate this ongoing wave. The real reason why so many companies – including Apple, Caterpillar, and…
Would you like to sharpen your eyesight? Record what your eyes see and share it on Facebook? Well, no problem. Just wait until 2027 and you can. This promise comes…