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Every industry is becoming an analytics industry because of the inclusion of data-driven technology. Traditional industries, such as healthcare and finance, are actually purchasing analytic technologies with the intent of becoming digital leaders in their industry. IoT is regarded as a future trend, and according to Gartner, by 2018, six billion connected things will be requesting data support. This requires tools that are future-proofed to handle the mass and types of data that Gartner is forecasting.

Organisations that ban social networking sites and other Web 2.0 technologies at work will not be able to attract future talent, delegates at the CIPD's HRD conference were told.

How the digital age is changing the way we tell stories. A community to explore the Future of Storytelling

We can stay in command of AI for as long as we control resources and value exchange in the future. However there is probably some minor chance that a self-improving AI will figure out how to wrest that control from us ... at some time in the future.

Many companies are seeing that the future of deep learning is here, and that it doesn't require a lot of money or resources to take advantage of this new industrial science. IBM's Watson Analytics offers a freemium service that allows you to upload up to 500MB, and enables you to explore your own real-life applications for deep learning. Inputting Google Adwords or other sales metrics into this tool can help even startup companies find relational and predictive information in their data.

The KIN Autumn 2011 Workshop is on the Future of Work. Blog from Lynda Gratton from London Business School.

Fascinating TED talk on the potential future for 'wearable' technology

YouTube video showing the collaboration site developed for members of the Future of Work Consortium. This project is headed by Prof Lynda Gratton of London Business School

Workers looking for jobs in 2035 might consider retraining as remote-controlled vehicle operators or online chaperones. Those are two of the jobs of the future suggested in a report by the CSIRO that charts 20-year trends in increasingly digitally focused and automated Australian workplaces.

In line with fears often read about in the media, both anti-killer robot activist Dr. Sharkey and Brandeis University's Dr. Michael Bukatin believe that autonomous machines, either superintelligences fighting themselves and obliterating us in the process or rampant autonomous armed conflict, pose a legitimate threat. Another thought is that AI aren't evil (and never will be); instead, it's the humans behind the AI that are unpredictable and often untrustworthy, with short-sighted aims such as financial and political gains. Dr. Michael Shermer sees the likeliest risk of near-future AI in the near future involving "evil humans manipulating AI toward their ends, not evil AI itself, as no such thing will develop."

Though US-centric, this Pew Report "Public Predictions for the Future of Workforce Automation" gives some insight to workforce attitudes to automation. Despite their expectations that technology will encroach on human employment in general, most workers think that their own jobs or professions will still exist in 50 years. Heads in the sand, or justifiable pessimism?

What does the future of work look like

Steve Dale shares some amazing facts and trends about social media

Future Changes is Stewart Mader. He wrote the book on wiki adoption, and he has led or advised enterprise-wide wiki deployments in Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, small and medium size companies.

Slideshare presentation from Xerox Parc on the future of knowledge work

"The Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity meeting held at the Getty Center on Feb 8-10, 01998 produced some remarkable insights into the future uses of digital technologies and their impact on the documentation of cultural heritage (see press clippings for summary detail). We will be posting transcripts, images, and video clips from the meeting here in coming days. If you are interested in registering to take part in on-line discussions please do so at the Time & Bits Discussion section of this site."

Stephen Hawking summed up the thinking of many of the researchers and funders behind artificial intelligence this week when he launched the new Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge by claiming that AI is "either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity."

The world's biggest artificial intelligence companies, including Facebook and Google, have joined forces to mould the ethical rules that will govern how robots and computer programs behave in the future.

About time and welcome. I hope that those with experience of medical ethics are also involved. For two reasons; medicine is likely to be a major player and beneficiary of AI (eg personalised drugs) and medical ethics is a mature field that is used to responding to rapid innovation.

The implications of advancing technology to a point where its applications can mimic, assume or replace the role of people, to a point where humankind is no longer needed to guide such developments, leads to a multitude of questions about what this means for the future of society.

A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate payouts to policyholders.