The best disruptors are focused on customers, not products, they use technology rather than fear it, they create new opportunities often where regulations don't exist and they are backed by those with deep pockets and an appetite for risk. Colin Cullis presents stories of Business Unusual - those people and companies driving the next industrial revolution. The associated articles and videos are available here
https://www.702.co.za/features/110/business-unusual
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 13 hours 8 minutes
Business Unusual - Using predictive data analytics to prevent people getting sick, rather than waiting to treat them after they’re ill
Guest: Graeme Codrington | Futurist and Partner at TomorrowToday
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Immortal voices and the technology that made it
The most recent additions to our historic records are sound and video, but advances in how we work will both may allow us to make them last forever.
Mandalorian Audio credit : Disney
Mark Hamill audio credit: BBC
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Artificially intelligent art - but is it?
AI has improved significantly over the last few years and is central to what is at the heart of the much talked about 4th Industrial Revolution.
But for all the problems it may solve, it raises as many new ones especially around how to classify it and whether deserves its own copyright or patent or even Nobel Prize...
Business Unusual - Merge, splurge or purge - what's next for Ethereum
Guest: Colin Cullis
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The Ethereum merge, the next step to make the blockchain more sustainable
The Bitcoin network still uses this method while the Ethereum network has recently switched to a revised system called proof-of-stake.
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A vaccine for Malaria
First identified almost 5 000 years ago, Malaria’s name comes from the Italian for bad air from when it was believed that illness was carried by the air. It was first identified as a parasite in 1880, a doctor in Cuba the following year noted the connection between mosquitoes and the transmission of yellow fever and allowed for the parasite to be tracked to being spread by certain mosquitoes.
The work resulted in Noble prizes for medicine being awarded in 1902 and 1907...
The information regulator is ready to flex some privacy law muscle
It may have taken a long time, but citizens can expect better protection now
The Information regulator adds teeth to two groups of law that add to the strength of South Africa’s democracy and institutions that are created to protect it...
How to measure progress rather than activity
The pandemic required the theoretical and experimental efforts of remote work to become the reality whether we were ready or not.
Thankfully there had been efforts to make this possible and that technology had progressed to support it.
Most work still falls into the kinds of work that can't be done remotely as it typically requires something to be made or extracted. Manufacturing, agriculture, mining and I will include education...
Three entrepreneurs and what they reflect about tech innovation
Two of the entrepreneurs might not be well known to most in South Africa, and the third might be best known only thanks to a recent TV series about his impressive rise and spectacular fall.
Their stories mirror the mix of character, vision, timing and a good bit of luck to make something a success. There are thousands who are doing the same each day but because the timing or luck is not aligned...
Dihydrogen monoxide batteries are the past and very likely the future
You would never consider visiting or staying next to a lithium-ion battery plant but you may well spend a relaxing weekend at a pumped storage facility.
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The thumbnail is a display of potential pump water storage locations.
Image credit: data.gov.au
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