Fast Forward by Tomorrow Unlocked: Tech past, tech future Kaspersky

Metaverses are immersive virtual worlds accessed through gaming consoles, VR headsets and computers. In them, you can do almost anything you’d do in the real world, like play sport and express yourself through fashion. Interestingly, the metaverse itself is already changing what these activities will likely mean to us in future.

Host Ghislaine Boddington meets Michaela Larosse of digital fashion house The Fabricant and Professor Andy Miah, Chair of Science Communication and Future Media at University of Salford, UK.

Gaming companies have long wanted their games to appeal to women. Early successes like Pac-Man showed the size of the untapped market, while ironically, Ms. Pac-Man missed the mark. How should games companies work to better reach wider audiences?

Technology has long triggered change in the home – from telephones, to television, and now telepresence, with mass data flowing through high-speed broadband, streaming and voice assistants. Ghislaine Boddington talks to Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, about how today’s tech is changing family relationships – sometimes, for the better. Sly Spencer Lee, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Emerge, explains a new technology letting people far from each other have deeper conversations by connecting through touch.

Ghislaine Boddington discusses the exciting and thorny topic of our extended selves in healthcare tech with Michael Geer, Co-founder of Humanity app, Marija Butkovic, world expert in women’s health innovation and Founder of Women of Wearables and David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky.

Glimpse our evolving cyborg world with writer and presenter Ghislaine Boddington, speaking with Dani Clode, prosthetic, augmentation and product designer at Cambridge University’s Alternative Limb Project, augmented artist Neil Harbisson, who sees himself as a ’Trans Species,’ and David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky.

Ghislaine Boddington speaks to professionals committed to making STEM careers more welcoming to women and girls. With Patricia Peck, CEO, Peck Advogados and equity and inclusion expert Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, CEO, Stemettes.