FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe - Innovating For A Better Future - with Ken Dovey

Innovating For A Better Future - with Ken Dovey

05/28/23 • 69 min

Innovation is a deeply, deeply social phenomenon that requires many people to come along for the ride. It’s not easy! So, where to start? What are the principles? How to think about it? If you want to make the world a better place by building new products or services, or simply by creating better ways of doing things inside your organization, then this episode is for you!

Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, futurist and keynote speaker, where I interview scientists and leading thinkers to explore pathways to a better future.
In this episode, we're talking to Dr Ken Dovey about how to make innovation happen. Ken is the deepest thinker on innovation I know. He led an elite Master of Business and Technology program and dedicated a career to researching, teaching and leading innovation. From leading multi-racial sporting teams in apartheid South Africa to working alongside CEOs attempting to turn around megafactories, he’s made the mistakes, celebrated the wins, and learned his innovation lessons the hard way – by being there!
Ken is also a great friend, and 100% committed to helping others and contributing positively to the world, which means he always ‘tells it like it is.’ There are so many gems in this wide-ranging conversation. Get ready for a treasure-trove of honesty and wisdom. Enjoy!

You’ll find the full interview transcript, together with a list of the sub-themes we covered and links to papers for further reading on the website here.
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How Far Can We Go With Solar? - with Martin Green

Has Martin Green done more than any other human to safeguard our future? For fifty years – yes fifty – he’s dedicated his life to pushing the boundaries of photovoltaics so they convert more sunlight to electricity and produce more electricity for less money. He and his team have held the world record for solar cell efficiencies for 30 of the past 39 years, and his technology is now imbedded in – wait for it – no less than 91 percent of worldwide solar cell production.
And he isn’t stopping!

So, how much more room for improvement is there? What happens if we can halve the price of solar again? Big questions for our future!

Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, global futurist and keynote speaker, where we interview scientists and explore pathways to a better future. In this episode, I ask Professor Martin Green at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who I’m now calling the God of Solar, “How far can we go?” and we spend a happy hour exploring the myriad ways we can extend the solar contribution to our future.
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And for further commentary and a full transcript of our conversation, see the accompanying FutureBites post on my website.

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The Future of Neuromorphic Computing - with Alexandre Marcireau

I’m calling neuromorphic computing the most important computer engineering research in the world. That’s right, more important than quantum computing (you heard it here first!)

So what is neuromorphic computing? How is it inspired by biology? Where is it taking us? Why are the opportunities so vast? How is it fundamental to future directions in artifical intelligence? And why does it matter SO much to the future of this planet?

Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, futurist and keynote speaker, where we interview scientists and explore pathways to a better future. In this episode, I’m talking to Dr Alexandre Marcireau at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) at the University of Western Sydney. Alex generously took me on a tour of his lab to see his inventions, including neuromorphic cameras that are currently circulating in the International Space Station. Afterwards he sat down with me to share his views on the future. He’s an extraordinary invidividual, and very much tuned-in to all the planet-scale benefits his technology has to offer. I know you’ll enjoy this one.

And when I say most important, I mean it. Its early days and there is a LOT of hard work to be done, but if you are investing in computer engineering, or studying it, or building AI systems (who isn’t?) or you happen to be manufacturing computer chips, this IS your future.

As always, I’ll add a post to the FutureBites page soon with additional thoughts and further reading, as well as a copy of the full interview transcript. Enjoy!

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See you in the future!