Gourmet 3D printed food restaurant pops up in London
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Move over Heston Blumenthal there’s a new printer in town. Later this month, a 3D Printing pop up restaurant, called “Food Ink”, will open in London and settings start at £250 per head. The restaurant promises to offer a completely different dining experience,...
Robo-Lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An artificial intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful. Dubbed as “the world’s first robot lawyer”, a title which actually belongs to an American AI called “Ross”, by...
Rolls Royce plans to deploy fully autonomous cargo ships by 2020
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Just like many other forms of transportation cargo ships aren’t immune from the march of technological progress, as such in time they too will become increasingly autonomous and electric. Rolls Royce and the led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) believe the future of...
Scientists develop “Stem cell fillings” that trigger teeth to repair themselves
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Never visit the dentists again and eat all the sweet stuff you like. Marvellous! Scientists in the UK have developed a new Biomaterial that can be inserted into teeth, via a traditional dentists filling, that can repair and regenerate dentin – the hard, bone like material...
BAE’s trials a molecular assembler that one day will grow drones in the field
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Growing your own products just became a thing. If you needed to be convinced just how fast technology is progressing then think of this. For Millennia humans have assembled individual, pre crafted components together to make products of every shape and form. In 1986...
JLR turns UK motorways into a test track for autonomous cars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF V2x will revolutionise the worlds transportation systems. Jaguar Land Rover has announced the launch of a 40 mile “living lab” on public roads in the UK to support the development of its Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technology and to hasten and support the transition from...
CIO Insight Series: Getting supplier relationships to work
CIO’s are becoming increasingly entrepreneurial but very few feel their suppliers provide any meaningful value During the course of my interviews with CIO’s over the past couple of years I’ve witnessed the growth of a worrying trend – the fact that many CIO’s feel that their suppliers are becoming...
The banks guide to scouting Fintech
Four of Europe’s largest banks reveal their Fintech scouting strategies To an Entrepreneur attention is oxygen so imagine the electricity that flows through a room when you put thirty budding European Fintech Entrepreneurs in the same room as senior executives from some of the Europe’s largest banks. This was the...
The End of Famine
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology is getting closer to solving one of the world’s greatest heart aches. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. No industry has had a greater impact on humanity and society as agriculture has and...
CIO Innovation Series: Mark Bramwell, CIO of Oxford Saïd Business School
At first, stepping into Oxford University’s Saïd Business School’s campus, opposite Oxford train station is like stepping into an experience. Designed by Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones, who also designed the London Opera House, the campus delicately blends classical outdoor architectural design, complete with amphitheatre, columns and cloisters and oak...
