I thought it about time I sent out another quick update of stuff that might be of interest from others and myself. I'd especially recommend Shalin Jyotishi's recent piece in Forbes on AI and quality of work.

For those of you in the US (or follow US traditions) hope you have a peaceful and thankful Thanksgiving next week, and have the chance to reflect on both what you are thankful for, and how you can contribute to what others become thankful for.

Happy reading/listening!

Andrew

Worth Reading: How AI Can Improve Job Quality

Shalin Jyotishi has a great article on artificial intelligence and job quality on Forbes that is well worth reading.

Shalin is a senior analyst at New America and a fellow with the World Economic Forum, and focuses on the future of work and technology innovation. I especially appreciate the approach he takes here (drawing on work from the Partnership on AI) as it shows how, with the right approach, AI and automation can be good for workers.

How AI Can Improve Job Quality
​Shalin Jyotishi | Forbes
​https://www.forbes.com/sites/shalinjyotishi/2022/11/16/how-ai-can-improve-job-quality/?sh=5683d910134c​

If you'd like to read more of Shalin's work, it's worth checking out his articles on Forbes and with the World Economic Forum.

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Into The Metaverse

A few weeks ago I was asked to talk about the metaverse with Jordan and Rosanna Catapano on the Relentless Pursuits podcast. The end result was an exceptionally wide ranging (and enjoyable) conversation about the future of the metaverse, technology innovation, and pretty much humanity it seemed!

You can hear it here:

"Into the Metaverse" - an Interview with Professor Andrew Maynard
​The Relentless Pursuit Podcast
​https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-metaverse-an-interview-with/id1514156204?i=1000584740117

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Sticking with Podcasts ...

This week we posted the last episode of series three of the Mission: Interplanetary podcast. Even if you're not especially into space or podcasts, I'd highly recommend listening to the season as we had some quite amazing guests. Plus, due to the amazing work, wit and humility of our production team and my co-host former astronaut Cady Coleman, it's a podcast that I'm especially proud to be associated with!

In this season, we had a quite unbelievable lineup of guests, including NASA's Tracy Drain on building spaceships, former astronaut Chris Hadfield on what we'll do on the moon when we get back there, Mary-Jane Rubenstein on space exploration and religion (one of my favorite episodes, and one where we had two fabulous guest hosts), and NASA's Amber Straughn on the James Webb Space Telescope.

And while I'm talking about the podcast, I do need to give a special shout-out to the Sounds of Space segment we include at the end of each episode. This is where we play a different sound associated with space each week (for instance a sound that is unique to some aspect of space exploration, or a "sonification" of space-related data) and either Cady or I have to guess what it is.

I love this segment. Of course we have a lot of fun with it, but at the same time, I'm constantly struck by how important it is to capture not just the visual side of space exploration, but the ways that sound can also provoke profound responses and insights into what lies beyond Earth.

Well worth listening to -- and you can find all of our episodes at missioninterplanetary.com, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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And finally ...

There's definitely a podcast theme to this month's update! Some of you may recall that early in 2021 I decided to start posting an audio version of the book Future Rising as a podcast. I got half way through the book before realizing that there is not an audience for authors reading their own work (I can be a little slow at times), and so wrapped up the project early. This week though I revisited those podcast episodes for the first time in a while, and was surprised that they are not as bad as I thought they might be!

With that exceedingly faint endorsement, if you're in the mood for a bunch 5 minute reflections on the future, feel free to check them out! You never know, if there's enough interest, there may be more to come!

Future Rising Podcast​
​https://futurerising.buzzsprout.com/​

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