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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 5 – TOM CHEESEWRIGHT - Rise Of The Machines – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Football, Society & Culture, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In a break in Dear Lovejoy tradition Tim Lovejoy is sat opposite someone who knows what they’re talking about. Tom Cheesewright, applied futurist, speaks to Tim about the advent of a fully automated world and where this leaves us mere humans. Will there be any jobs left for us? If you would like to discuss this episode or any of the others, our email address is dearlovejoypodcast@gmail.com or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy.
If you would like to find out more about Tom Cheesewright, he can be found here.
Website - https://bookofthefuture.co.uk/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/bookofthefuture
Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/book-of-the-future/id1207555747?mt=2

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dear Lovejoy podcast special. The idea behind these is we're going to have one question

0:07.3

and only one answer, but it's not going to be answered by me. It's going to be answered by an expert.

0:13.4

That's not you, Mark. We're going to get an expert in. Today's question is,

0:17.3

Dear Lovejoy, am I going to lose my job soon when every job is automated?

0:23.2

Today's expert is a lovely man called Tom Cheesewright.

0:25.9

Do you know who Tom Cheesewright is, Mark?

0:27.2

I'll be honest, I hadn't come across him until you've spoken about him.

0:31.1

He sounds like a fascinating chap.

0:32.7

I've been looking him up.

0:33.7

He is quite media friendly.

0:35.1

And he's got a podcast as well.

0:36.3

He has, and he's got a good website as well. He's a futureologist. He works for companies predicting the future so they know

0:43.2

the right direction they can go. He also runs futureologist courses at the University of Salford,

0:50.3

which is intriguing. You can learn how to read the future basically. It's like you can become a...

0:55.4

I have a friend who studied that's got a masters in it. Really? And she now works in Helsinki.

0:59.1

She's actually sent in a question, so we'll get to the way. Oh, is she absolutely loaded? Because she can

1:02.8

protect the future. She's doing okay. She's doing all right. I met Tom a few years back when he came on one of my TV shows.

1:12.1

I love the future.

1:14.0

I really do.

1:14.6

And I love change.

1:15.8

I'm not one of these people who wants everything to stay the same.

1:17.7

I want everything to change.

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