Simon Anderson
@simonspeaks.bsky.social
Futurist Keynote Speaker and Executive Advisor
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You Can Be Future Ready™ 2025
Futurist Speaker Simon Anderson helps executives and organizations move beyond surviving change to shaping their own future.
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New speaker reel! For the last 14 years, my career has been dedicated to helping leaders and organizations Be Future Ready™ and this shows how I do it. Big thanks to Chris West and the incredible team at Video Narrative Inc. who did an incredible job putting this together!
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The team administered a single shot of E. americana intravenously to mice with colorectal cancer, and it completely eliminated tumors in every treated animal.
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Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice with a single dose
A bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs has "exhibited remarkably potent" tumor-killing abilities when administered intravenously, outperforming current standard therapies and paving th...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The team administered a single shot of E. americana intravenously to mice with colorectal cancer, and it completely eliminated tumors in every treated animal.
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Real world look at what worked and didn't work in an actual factory, pulling 10 hr shifts. Figure 3 will be that much better because of it.
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Figure humanoid robots retire bruised after 11 months of work at BMW
Figure AI has retired its Figure 02 humanoid robots after an 11-month industrial run inside BMW’s Spartanburg plant.
interestingengineering.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Real world look at what worked and didn't work in an actual factory, pulling 10 hr shifts. Figure 3 will be that much better because of it.
interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...
interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...
AI relationships are quickly becoming the new smartphone addiction. Right now, this could also be more of an indication of the current state of human relationships with each other than the power of AI to "seduce" people away from their partners. www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...
AI Relationships Are on the Rise. A Divorce Boom Could Be Next
Secret chatbot flings are creating new legal challenges for married couples when it comes to infidelity.
www.wired.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
AI relationships are quickly becoming the new smartphone addiction. Right now, this could also be more of an indication of the current state of human relationships with each other than the power of AI to "seduce" people away from their partners. www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...
Driverless car progress has gotten a boost in the US with Waymo becoming the first to offer riders a driverless freeway robotaxi service in California and Arizona.
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Waymo hits the freeway in US autonomous vehicle first
Waymo today becomes the first autonomous vehichle taxi fleet to provide riders access to freeways in three US cities.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Driverless car progress has gotten a boost in the US with Waymo becoming the first to offer riders a driverless freeway robotaxi service in California and Arizona.
www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/way...
www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/way...
Nov 12 (Reuters) - A staggering 97% of listeners cannot distinguish between artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Nov 12 (Reuters) - A staggering 97% of listeners cannot distinguish between artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs.
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I think we hit the inflection point around Suno V3.5. Now we're at V5.
You may not agree with me yet, but AI has fully cracked music creation.
You may not agree with me yet, but AI has fully cracked music creation.
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I think we hit the inflection point around Suno V3.5. Now we're at V5.
You may not agree with me yet, but AI has fully cracked music creation.
You may not agree with me yet, but AI has fully cracked music creation.
It then analyzes the images to detect any blood, as well as analyze your gut health and hydration status. There's a subscription fee of between $70 and $156 per year.
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Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It then analyzes the images to detect any blood, as well as analyze your gut health and hydration status. There's a subscription fee of between $70 and $156 per year.
www.cnet.com/health/medic...
www.cnet.com/health/medic...
Not the usual battery hype - starting mass production in December! www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/com...
Chinese price-competitive sodium-ion batteries pose threat to Samsung, LG - The Korea Times
CATL, a Chinese battery manufacturer and technology company, is commercializing sodium-ion batteries — a move that poses an increasing threat to Ko...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not the usual battery hype - starting mass production in December! www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/com...
This is a HUGE announcement:
This announcement marks a milestone for AI in science. C2S-Scale generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior and we have since confirmed its prediction with experimental validation in living cells.
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This announcement marks a milestone for AI in science. C2S-Scale generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior and we have since confirmed its prediction with experimental validation in living cells.
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How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.
blog.google
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is a HUGE announcement:
This announcement marks a milestone for AI in science. C2S-Scale generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior and we have since confirmed its prediction with experimental validation in living cells.
blog.google/technology/a...
This announcement marks a milestone for AI in science. C2S-Scale generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior and we have since confirmed its prediction with experimental validation in living cells.
blog.google/technology/a...
“By engineering these nanoparticles to activate the immune system via multi-pathway activation that combines with cancer-specific antigens, we can prevent tumor growth with remarkable survival rates”
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Next-gen vaccine prevents up to 88% of multiple aggressive cancers
A next-generation cancer vaccine has shown stunning results in mice, preventing up to 88% of aggressive and difficult-to-treat cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune sy...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“By engineering these nanoparticles to activate the immune system via multi-pathway activation that combines with cancer-specific antigens, we can prevent tumor growth with remarkable survival rates”
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"One way to control a medicine is through dose. We've added a second lever by designing molecules that can be switched off rapidly, even after they've taken full effect,"
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Engineered protein switches may lead to safer, smarter medicines
Engineered protein switches may lead to safer, smarter medicines
Engineered protein switches may lead to safer, smarter medicines
A new way to potentially control when drugs are active or inactive in the body is introduced in a study reported Sept. 24 in Nature. The research showed that, instead of controlling how tightly protei...
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September 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"One way to control a medicine is through dose. We've added a second lever by designing molecules that can be switched off rapidly, even after they've taken full effect,"
Amodei told Axios in May that he thinks AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years. He also predicted that the unemployment rate could jump to somewhere between 10% and 20% in that timeframe.
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Anthropic cofounders say the likelihood of AI replacing human jobs is so high that they needed to warn the world about it
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said it was necessary to warn the world about AI replacing jobs due to the high likelihood of disruption.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Amodei told Axios in May that he thinks AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years. He also predicted that the unemployment rate could jump to somewhere between 10% and 20% in that timeframe.
www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...
www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...
Three Florida school districts are trialing the weaponized drone system after it was approved by Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Florida schools introducing armed drones that respond to shootings within seconds
Three Florida school districts are trialing the weaponized drone system after it was approved by Governor Ron DeSantis.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Three Florida school districts are trialing the weaponized drone system after it was approved by Governor Ron DeSantis.
www.techspot.com/news/109188-...
www.techspot.com/news/109188-...
Some controllers currently use paper strips to track aircraft movements and transfer data between systems using floppy disks, while their computers run Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which launched in 1995.
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US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks
Agency seeks contractors to modernize decades-old systems within four years.
arstechnica.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Some controllers currently use paper strips to track aircraft movements and transfer data between systems using floppy disks, while their computers run Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which launched in 1995.
arstechnica.com/information-...
arstechnica.com/information-...
Chinese EVs manufacturers are taking over. US and German car makers are completely blowing a century-long head start.
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insideevs.com/news/764711/...
BYD Just Sold Its Millionth Seagull
Whether you call it the Dolphin Mini, Dolphin Surf or Seagull, BYD has moved more than a million of them.
insideevs.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Chinese EVs manufacturers are taking over. US and German car makers are completely blowing a century-long head start.
insideevs.com/news/764711/...
insideevs.com/news/764711/...
