What does innovation mean to you? And what advice do you have for companies who haven't embraced AR/VR/AI yet. Innovation is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is an incremental change and improvement to an existing idea, process or product. It's the accumulated increments of those improvements, and the gap of knowledge that it creates (no one has seen it before), that creates novelty and eventually disrupts. It's like seeing your son every day growing up. When he's 18, you won't be shocked seeing how much he grew. But when you see your nephew at 2 months old, and never see him again until he's 20, you'll be shocked to see him and how much he'd grown.
TECHNOLOGY AND THE CHANGING FACE OF THE WORKFORCE
Andrew Payne, Business Analyst at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) talks about the need for honing our human based skills to stay relevant in the modern workforce. Skills which he shares he has worked on in the Symes Group Leadership Program at Ranzcr. "I think it is a fair assumption to say that we are moving towards an era where many professional tasks are being automated, and many skills will be made redundant. The World Economic Forum recently listed the top 10 skills that it believes will be most in demand from 2020 onwards.
“We are in the imagination age. Organisations need to prioritise innovation, and embrace creativity. It may seem unreachable, but it’s not. There’s a science behind it.”
What can we expect to see in the future?
While there seems to be great interest in both AR and VR, I honestly think AR is the next mass medium. That's because devices like the Hololens are truly the future of computing:
We won't need mobile phones, we will be wearing them.
We won't need monitors at work, we will have multiple monitors all over the walls.
We won't need TV screens at home.
You could have a home theatre on any wall in any room. I watch Netflix on a huge wall at home and it feels incredible.
Why is AR/VR important and how is it shaping who we are?
I believe that humankind is an ever curious and fascinating species. We are constantly hungry, searching for meaning and new experiences. And I strongly believe that what we create, creates us back. We put out all these expressions, of art, poetry, technology and tools, which we reflect upon. Then through our admiration and awe, they redefine the "what is" and what it means to be human.