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Insights on AI, Strategy & the Future | The Digital Speaker

Insights on AI, Strategy & the Future | The Digital Speaker

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The AI Readiness Test You Can Actually Talk To

Walk into any Fortune 500 boardroom and you'll hear the same: "We are well positioned for AI." Walk 2 floors down and you'll hear something else entirely. The Intelligence Age Scorecard exists to surface that gap, and it is the only assessment you can actually discuss with the futurist who built it.

Vibe Coding Works. Not the Way Most Executives Think It Does.

Vibe coding is the most over-hyped idea in technology today, and one of the most consequential. I built the Intelligence Age Scorecard with it in five weeks — no engineers, no dev shop, no code. Here are the disciplines that shipped it, and the patterns that almost destroyed it along the way.

A Jury Just Said What Zuckerberg's Own Memos Already Proved

A California jury found Meta and YouTube liable on all counts for deliberately addicting a teenager. Internal memos showed the strategy: hook them as tweens. The $6M verdict is small. The precedent is not. 2,000 pending cases now have a template, and the Big Tobacco playbook just found a new target

When Intelligence Is Everywhere and Judgment Is Scarce

AI removes interpretation. Automation removes labour. Robotics removes physical limits. Together, they move at machine speed. But intelligence was never really the scarce resource — judgment was. We are automating the roles where people learn it. Design versus drift. That choice cannot be automated.

I Built an Interactive Voice-Narrated Masterclass From My Book in One Weekend

Book → 8 interactive HTML episodes → 13,000+ words of narration → voice cloning via ElevenLabs + Claude Code (MCP) → deployed with Ghost. No team. No studio. One weekend. AI didn’t write the ideas, it erased the bottleneck.

The Future of Finance Is Autonomous and Always-On

Markets have crossed into the second half of the chessboard: tokenised rails, always-on settlement, AI-led decisions, and quantum-era security risk. The old governance cadence is dead. The new mandate is design over drift—accountability engineered into the system.

When Intelligence Stops Being the Problem

We’re building systems that can analyse, predict, simulate and persuade at superhuman levels, while relying on political, legal and organisational structures that were designed for a world where intelligence was scarce and slow. That is a dangerous gap.

Why Electric Mobility Is Becoming an Energy Network Problem

EV charging is no longer about plugs and locations. Battery breakthroughs, megawatt demand, fleets, and autonomy are turning mobility into an energy network problem. The real value is shifting behind the meter, into orchestration, flexibility, and grid intelligence.

Ten Technology Trends for 2026

2026 marks the dawn of Augmented Intelligence, a year where AI becomes embedded everywhere, from geopolitics to healthcare, robotics, and the brain itself. These ten trends expose the shifts redefining power, work, privacy, and what it means to be human.

How Do You Become A Futurist?

From cycling around Australia to writing my PhD on airplanes, I never planned to become a futurist. I just kept following the signal that wouldn’t shut up. Fifteen years later, I’m still doing the same, helping others navigate a world changing faster than ever.