Technology through the Looking Glass: Preparing for 2024 and beyond

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Looking Glass isn't like most other technology trend reports. It doesn't just tell you what deserves your attention, it's designed to help you use it to focus on what really matters to you. Published once a year, Thoughtworks intends it to be a tool that helps readers make sense of the emerging technologies that are going to shape the industry in the months and years to come.

In this episode of the Technology Podcast, lead Looking Glass contributors Rebecca Parsons and Ken Mugrage trade hosting duties for the guest seats, as they talk to Neal Ford about the most recent edition of the Looking Glass (published in January 2024). They explain what the Looking Glass is and outline some of the key 'lenses' that act as a framework readers can use to monitor and evaluate what's on the horizon.

Covering everything from AI to augmented reality, this conversation offers a new perspective on emerging technology to help prepare you for 2024.

Explore Looking Glass 2024: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/looking-glass

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.
0:11.7	I'm one of your regular host, Neil Ford, and we have yet another of our sort of hybrid setups today where my normal regular co-host, Rebecca Parsons, joining me, but she's actually
0:22.9	here as a guest. I'll let her introduce herself. Hello, everyone. This is Rebecca Parsons,
0:28.3	Chief Technology Officer Amerita. I have to keep remembering to say that. And as Neil said,
0:35.2	I'm one of your regular co-hosts, but I'm here today to talk about one of our
0:39.4	publications called The Looking Glass, along with my co-contributor to this, Ken McGrage, who is also
0:48.4	one of your normal co-hosts.
0:50.9	So let's talk about Looking Glass.
0:53.0	This is regular publication produced by ThoughtWorks,
0:57.0	and apropos to its name, it is looking into the future of tech. So what is looking glass?
1:05.3	Well, for several years, quite obviously, since we're a technology company, we've put together a tech
1:10.7	strategy.
1:11.2	And we focused that first on what are the things that are actually happening. And that
1:19.2	naturally grouped itself into several what we now call lenses within the looking glass.
1:29.9	But that's not terribly interesting as a strategy because it's simply facts. Now, it does probably vary from our perspective because we're
1:37.8	going to bring our own lens to it as opposed to say an Accenture or a Deloitte. But those are still facts. They're just
1:45.6	what's happening. The important part of the looking glass is the concrete advice. And we try to
1:52.3	divide the various trends into these lenses, which encapsulate really a business problem and includes our recommendations
2:03.4	on, these are the kinds of things you should think about if you're going to respond to this
2:09.0	as an organization.
2:11.0	And in much the way a lens focuses light, this sort of focuses this area of technology around
2:17.3	the things that are interesting.
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