thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

https://thinkfuture.com | is the 15-minute city concept going to solve our problems? What if people prefer not to be packed in tight? We must provide new solutions that work with people, not against them.

https://thinkfuture.com | 1984 and Brave New World were warnings, not guidebooks, but we have turned them into them. Here we are, drinking from our SOMA feeds on our phones, going catatonic when our phones are taken away, and starting to censor art retroactively, like Roald Dahl's books, some of which are offending our newly sensitive palette. This is just plain wrong. The only artists who should...

https://thinkfuture.com | The Future of Generative AI with my eminent guests and experts in the field: Bernardo Crespo and Gam Dias Bernardo Crespo Passionate about digital strategy and leadership. I help leading companies (Fortune 500) to follow the best path I have learned by applying a digital transformation (dogfooding). Passionate about sharing, I lead the academic direction of the Digital Tr...

https://thinkfuture.com | How to innovate? Take a deep look at where your customer experiences drag and alleviate it, not by deceiving the user with awkward keyboard layouts or loading gifs.

https://thinkfuture.com | During my stint in sales, I realized that sales are broken. Very, very broken. And since then, it's become even more broken. We are bombarded with thousands of sales messages, billions of spam messages, and hundreds of thousands of auto-calling bots daily. But, unfortunately, in all of this clamor, useful messages are getting lost.  As an engineer, I thought there ha...

https://thinkfuture.com--- Announcing the Human Uplift Project's first publication: https://9rulesbook.com

https://thinkfuture.com--- Live streaming is merging with commerce creating live-commerce, an updated QVC/Home Shopping Channel environment over the internet with new interactive features. Gen ZAlpha is pioneering this kind of sustainable live stream shopping, but is it scalable? Maybe, if you have create synthetic spokespeople to pitch your products live. Question is: would prefer to buy from an...

An economist, data scientist and interdisciplinary researcher with over two decades of experience in academic, government, corporate and startup settings, based in Seattle USA and occasionally in New Delhi India. Also a former diplomat, management consultant, policy advisor, published author of 8 books and 250+ research papers, articles and Opeds in leading journals, magazines and newspapers, with...

https://thinkfuture.com --- To innovate, its helps to generate uncommon semantic juxtapositions, which can then trigger new thinking.

https://thinkfuture.com--- When you are trying to make a decision, it usually comes down to two choices. This startup idea helps you to make that choice by letting the crowd help you to make that decision.

Try not to consume for a bit. See what happens. --- https://thinkfuture.com

Are you too focused on your goals to enjoy your journey or see new opportunities --- https://thinkfuture.com

Leesa is a seasoned innovator with more than 20 years’ experience in various Healthcare settings. She determines strategies to maximize revenue and organizational growth opportunities through creative problem solving. Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the complexities involved in determining product and process designs and how they drive risk and risk selection. https://www.linkedin.com/in/leesat...

Microsoft just came out and said that AI being bad is our fault. I told you I was always right. --- https://thinkfuture.com

Where are all the amazing innovative new smartphone designs? I just compared the Samsung Galaxy S23 and the iPhone 14 Pro and they have basically the same form factor. Where did innovation go in the smartphone space?  --- https://thinkfuture.com

You can’t beat kids when it comes to new, innovative, out-of-the-box thinking. I mean, not all kids, but those fearless try-anything-because-they-don’t-know not-to kinds of kids. I think you know the kinds of kids I’m thinking of: The ones that climbed up to the roof with their blankets to see if they use them as capes to fly The ones that would take electronic things apart and put them back toget...

I am a designer and researcher working at the intersection of embodied sensing systems and emerging materials and their relationship to meaning-making. I have engineered novel solutions for soft-to-hard interfaces, pioneered applications and processes for a stack of smart polymer technologies, and developed award-winning wearable environments that explore intimacy, ambiguity and markers of alivene...

Why do our devices have so little autonomy? They know so much about us but none of that information is used to autonomously lift our burdens, but to keep us hooked and show us more advertising.  --- https://thinkfuture.com

Another Startup Monday, another idea from the past. Are you interested in the top stuff in any particular topic? Things go by too fast on Twitter and other social media, can we capture them and show people the top ones? --- https://thinkfuture.com

Looking for white spaces to build product in? Try asking "why do we still..." --- https://thinkfuture.com

Is learning to code still the big job saver? Not if ChatGPT can code for you, and low-code/no-code solutions seem to be taking over. Should people stay in the white collar space when AI takes those jobs? Middle-management and eventually senior-management will definitely be automated before workers. We will see blue-collar workers make more than CEOs. --- https://thinkfuture.com

Diraj has experience across various fields such as automotive, embedded systems, industrial automation, fintech, blockchain, fraud, AML and supply chain management. Always seeking career and personal growth opportunities that enable me to polish my skills and make an impact in a fast-paced environment. Duke University Master of Engineering Management (2018) --- https://thinkfuture.com

The human race has a lot of issues: we can all agree that we'd like humans to be healthy, we just disagree on the path to health. Maybe the political divisiveness is not just a distraction, its holding us back from working together on solutions which work for everyone. We need to be apolitical.  --- https://thinkfuture.com

Today's startup idea: connecting busy execs with no time and lots of money to college students with lots of time and no money.  --- https://thinkfuture.com

Some experts predict that the "golden age" of streaming, during which customers have benefited from an almost limitless supply of ad-free content at a reasonable price, is coming to an end. They forecast that as studios try to balance their budgets, streaming will grow more expensive and more frequently interrupted by advertising, a trend that has already begun. Cost-cutting pressures may also res...