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Learning is more important than knowledge. (More here: https://imaginize.world/bill-fischer-idea-hunter-innovation-enthusiast/) Scalable learning, the challenge. Relationships matter, including weak ties. Fischer has worked extensively with Haier, the innovative Chinese appliance maker who has integrated zero distance from the customer into all their work and built a network of autonomous unites t...

Seeing Around Corners. (Rita's page https://imaginize.world/rita-mcgrath-strategies-corners/) How do you provide enough structure and coherence that the organization operates well as a whole, but give people the freedom to really let their humanity flourish and let their ingenuity flourish? Humans are ingenious creatures, and I think that’s the skill that we are facing today.  So organization...

Chris Luebkeman and Jonelle Simunich talk about their initiative [y]our 2040 and crafting the future through stories. The goal of their initiative is “to create impactful and actionable solutions that enable radical transformation to create a clear positive pathway for our future.”    IMAGINIZE.WORLD The goal is to shape our future before it shapes us. YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Ima...

Global Futurist Blending Tradition and Technology https://imaginize.world/storytelling-shapes-pasts-presents-futures/ Nigerian science fiction author Wole Talabi describes into his unique writing process, shaped by his engineering background and the concept of convergence problems.  Talabi’s work explores African futurism and its global significance, blending African culture with futuristic themes...

Pieter Franken is co-founder of Safecast, one of the most successful citizen science projects in the world.  More here: https://imaginize.world/pieter-franken-safecast-citizen-science/ Safecast was created in 2011, a few days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Pieter tells us how it operates, why it’s successful, and, most importantly, how it can be an example for people who really want to make...

Cortney Harding on the new virtual reality world and how the world has reached this point. More on her page: https://imaginize.world/cortney-harding-pioneering-virtual-technologies-expert/ She covers her personal journey, how #legal is late to the game, how growth roles are coded female. She talks about how #learning never ends, the positive effect VR can have on lives, the missing #ecosystem of V...

David Weinberger's vision of the future, today! More here: https://imaginize.world/david-weinberger-unanticipation/ From the Cluetrain Manifesto in 2001, to Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility in 2019, Weinberger's books have helped shape many people’s ideas about technology and how it influences us. He helps us understand the effec...

Joyce Kimutai is a #climate #scientist based in Kenya. She investigates the connection between humans and extreme weather caused by climate change. Her work bridges the gap between #legalpractice and science, showing the causation between human activities and harm and damage from climate change. #climatechangeimpacts .She works with the IPPC, the UN group (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Nirere Sadrach is founder and organizer of “End #plastic Now”. He started it in 2020 in Uganda. (Read more including transcript: https://imaginize.world/nirere-ending-plastics/) End Plastic Now is a youth movement whose goal is to end single-use plastic by corporations. Nirere is involved in the very original Kollekt Village which is a model for how local communities can deal with #wastemanagement...

Alex Prate, venture builder and entrepreneur, discusses how #DAOs can help people revolutionize #energymanagement, share #renewable energy, create a more sustainable and #equitablefuture through #regeneration. He also talks about SEEDS a currency that rewards regenerative activities. The use of #blockchaintechnology ensures transparency. He talks about #Realifex, an app that focuses on #well-being...

Climate activist from Uganda, Vanessa campaigns internationally to highlight the impacts of climate change already playing out in Africa. Vanessa has appeared at high-level events including the 2019 UN Climate summit in Madrid, and the 2020 World Economic Forum. In 2020, she was named one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the year, as well as one of the 100 most influential young Africans. (Read more incl...

See transcript here: https://imaginize.world/robin-vincent-smith-podcast/ Robin is particularly working on how MSF is adapting its operations to the reality of climate change  and reducing its environmental footprint. His focus is how people work together. We talk about a wide range of issues around and beyond the humanitarian world. His perspective is unique because it blends reality on the front...

See transcript here: https://imaginize.world/sugata-mitra-podcast/ Sugata Mitra is a physicist, educational pioneer  He was the creator of the famous “Hole in the Wall” experiment which was the inspiration for the School in the Cloud and for Self-organized Learning Environments, or SOLE which led the one million dollar TED prize in 2013, given to forward thinkers with bold ideas and a vision and s...

See transcript here: https://imaginize.world/art-kleiner-transcript/ The subject of this podcast episode is his new book The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology, co-authored with Juliette Powell.  We all need to get a grasp on AI, what it means for us, the benefits and potential harms. The AI Dilemma offers principles to help us frame our thinking. Principles are more important tod...

Mandar describes himself as "Thought Leader, Social Innovator, Meditation Teacher and Storyteller". He adds: "I collaborate with changemakers, leaders and organizations to reimagine their purpose & impact." (Read more including transcript: https://imaginize.world/mandar-apte-building-culture-peace/) In 2017, Mandar produced and directed the film From India With Love, a docu...

See https://imaginize.world/debbie-urbanski-podcast/ for transcript. We talked about her first novel, After World , and Debbie explained her unusual idea of a Great Transition and a New Awakening. She is comfortable talking about the conflicting priorities we face with climate crisis, and the choice between preserving human life and/or  earth. AI is more than “artificial intelligence” in After Wor...

From the Cluetrain Manifesto in 2001, to Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility in 2019, Weinberger's books have helped shape many people’s ideas about technology and how it influences us. He helps us understand the effect of machine learning on business strategy and our lives in general.   IMAGINIZE.WORLD The goal is to shape our future be...

See https://imaginize.world/mark-grob-podcast/ for transcript. Mark is head of the Immersive Tech Center for UPS. He works with subject matter experts to develop  innovations that solve real business problems. Their goal is to make immersive technology a normal business practice for UPS and partner companies. I talked with Mark over a year ago when I interviewed him for my Bold New Breed podcast e...

Chen Stanley Qiufan sees himself as a storyteller rather than a science fiction writer. See more here: https://imaginize.world/stanley-chen-podcast/ He believes science fiction should go beyond the boundaries of traditional scifi and explore interdisciplinary topics, including spirituality and mysticism. Themes: going beyond borders, the invisible people, our sense of self worth, the possibility o...

Joachim Stroh discusses decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and their potential to fundamentally change the way organizations function.  More here: https://imaginize.world/dao-age-work-reimagined-with-joachim-stroh/ He explains that DAOs are different from traditional organizations and operate on the principles of decentralization and trust. Stroh describes how DAOs are built on blockcha...

Florence Devouard, a long-time member of the Wikimedia Foundation, discusses various aspects of the organization and its future. She highlights the Wikimedia ecosystem, which consists of the Wikimedia Foundation and numerous entities around the world. Devouard emphasizes the importance of expanding the presence of Wikipedia in Africa. She addresses concerns about reliability and verified, validate...

Thomas Vander Wal, well-know technology expert, is the creator of the term “folksonomy” where people define their personal categories for words (versus organizational, official taxonomy). Along the same lines he also defined the concept of the “personal info cloud”, the information you collect, organize, save and keep close to you. Thomas has done much more for the world of technology but these tw...

Robin Vincent-Smith has been with Médecins sans Frontières, or in English, Doctors Without Borders. for over 20 years.  The first years were working in the field in Ethiopia, Congo, Chad, South Africa, Liberia, and other countries. Now, he's based in the Operational Centre in Brussels, and officially 'Programme, Change & Knowledge Manager', but he dislikes job titles. The motto...

Sugata Mitra, physicist and educational pioneer, is known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment that led to the School in the Cloud and SOLE (self-organized learning environments). Winner of the TED one million dollar prize in 2013, and laureate of the 2022 Brock Prize in Education Innovation, he is now moving on to work in new but related areas. We talk about his million-dollar TED priz...

In this conversation, Art Kleiner discusses the four perspectives that decision-makers consider when making decisions about AI: the engineer's perspective, the business perspective, the government perspective, and the social justice perspective. He also talks about the importance of explainability in AI and the need for different explanations for different stakeholders.  Kleiner concludes by...