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I’m a technology futurist and international keynote speaker. I work with clients to understand practical applications for disruptive technologies. I have particular experience in AI, Education, Retail, Health and Financial Services. Explore my books below, Connect on LinkedIn or contact me for Speaking, Webinars & Workshops

Can a Robot Blow Out a Candle?

Explore the big questions AI poses for the future of humanity. From AI companions to sharing our world with robots, discover the urgent, human-centric issues we are dangerously unprepared to answer.

This is an essential guide for anyone ready to wake up, reclaim agency, and start building a future that serves humanity.


Meet Your Non-Human Colleagues

Your next colleague won’t ask for a desk. It won’t join you for coffee. But it will be hired, managed, and may even become your boss. Are you ready to work with and for an AI?

Welcome to the new hybrid workforce.

This book provides a guide for leaders, managers, and professionals navigating this unprecedented transformation.

Executive’s Gen AI Handbook

Your one-stop guide to the world of Generative AI. A non-technical introduction to this powerful technology, covering what it is and isn’t, how to prepare for it, the regulatory context and a guide to prompt engineering.

“There’s no better primer for getting up to speed with AI.”



Executive’s AGenTIC AI Handbook

Your guide to the emerging world of Agentic AI and Agentic Commerce.

Understand the pivotal evolution from Generative AI, which creates content, to Agentic systems that reason, plan, and autonomously execute complex goals in the real world, including purchasing goods.

Prepare now for a trillion-dollar shift in the economy where AI agents become the primary shoppers.


The future is not something we can await. It is something we must actively guide.

The central question of our age is not whether technology will advance. It will. Nor is the question whether we should welcome or fear it. We will do both, because both responses are rational.

The question is whether we can become wise enough, quickly enough, to create a better world or a future we’ll regret.

Metis was the ancient Greek goddess of Wisdom.

The Metis Imperative is an ambitious, expansive exploration of the future and how to shape it.

Vol. I: The Opaque Machine

Vol. II: The Chronos Conundrum

Vol. III: The Atlas Burden

Read together or separately, these volumes are designed to help you prepare for the future.

Learn more at: https://themetisimperative.com


Unlock Your Learning

Discover the breakthroughs in Cognitive Psychology in recent decades that, coupled with unprecedented levels of access to learning opportunities, herald a new golden age of learning.

Better Online Presenting

To help you stand out from the crowd and deliver the very best online presentations possible, this book takes you through the easy and free basic improvements right up to tips for aspiring professionals.

When Humans Stop Shopping

When Humans Stop Shopping is your comprehensive guide to the dynamic future of consumer commerce and to the technologies revolutionizing retail.

 

The New Acceleration

Are you ready for computers that can see, hear, talk and think? AI changes everything.

Recommended Reading for
Stanford CSP Course on AI

Life AS A PASSENGER

Your essential guide to one of the most
important new technologies this century

Recommended Reading for
Stanford CSP Course Self Driving Cars

 

EStars Classroom of the Future

Visit EStars to discover the future of learning.

Virus Hunters

Explore the technology breakthroughs catalysed by the pandemic and the diagnostic advances that can drastically improve world health