Episode Synopsis "Harnessing Disruptive Technology for Business Growth"
Can we predict change and harness its power to prosper in the future? Steve Thomas chats with Sir George Cox, whose career has spanned the dawn of information technology to the present day.Sir George uses his unique perspective to highlight the importance of discontinuity as a driver for change and innovation. Technology, he says, is very predictable but divining where its application will take us is a very different matter. Who would have predicted the growth in mobile communications or the impact the internet, which was developed for a totally different reason, would have?And looking to the future, where will AI and genetic modelling take us? What will it take for us to trust it?