thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Dr. Ciela Hartanov was part of the founding team of The Google School for Leaders and Head of Next Practice Innovation and Strategy at Google, where she developed projects designed to shape the future of leadership and work. She currently runs humcollective, a boutique strategy and innovation firm that helps companies, executives, and teams make sense of the forces shaping the future and prepare s...

Part 4 of 4: What is the Minimum Amount of work that we will need to complete to get our jobs done? It will be different for every role.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Part 3 of 4: Instead of figuring out how to improve our current food infrastructure, have we been able to figure out the Minimum Viable Food product that we will need to survive. We made a lot of progress in that space, but we need to do more.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

As an Innovation Catalyst, I help make the abstract real through innovative methodologies to build new digital products. I lead efforts in future visioning, ethnographic research, design strategy, product & market validation, and service design. Originally trained as an architect, I'm most curious lately about opportunities that weave together physical space and digital experience in both urba...

Part 2 of 4: Have we figured out what the Minimum Viable Domicile should be for human beings? There are some basic requirements that humans need in a home; why not invent that and use that to solve the problems of homelessness? --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Part 1 of 4: How do we apply the concept of the Lean Startup MVP to our biggest problems: for example, what is the minimum education that students require before they are sent out into the world? Critical thinking, learning how to learn, the scientific method.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Nate Joens is the Co-Founder, Head of Innovation and past CEO at Structurely. Under his 4 years as CEO, Structurely experienced 10x growth in conversations processed in the real estate industry and built a proprietary conversational AI application that 99.9% of consumers believed was human. Structurely also became a Housing Wire Real Estate Tech Top 100 company, and grew to a team of 26 employees....

Jesson Bradshaw is the CEO of Energy Ogre, an electricity management company that uses proprietary systems to ensure its customers are always getting the best prices on their energy electricity.  Energy Ogre has helped over 100,000 Texans save up to 40% on their electricity bills, over $150M since its founding.   Jesson hopes to bring attention to Texas’s deregulated electricity ind...

We hire too many people based on a false reality. Past events do not necessarily ensure future results. Bring back apprenticeships for all work.  --- http://ideateandexecute.com

What is wrong with work? It needs to be completely disrupted: change only seems to occur when there is a crisis - even though remote work is better for almost everyone, we are still pressuring employees to return to the office.  --- http://ideateandexecute.com

For the first 15 years of his professional career, Matt focused on information technology -  working for a large silicon valley software companies to data center startups to a brief stint with a family foundation that, unlike his previous employers, did not create profit but rather had a goal to give it all away.  In early 2000 he entered the world of logistics - mostly implementing larg...

Product Innovation: Strategize - look to the future and see where things are going. Innovate - envision new products and services your customer may love, and let them decide if it needs to pivot. How to meet supply and demand, how to make sure you know what people want - build something that you think they like and then ASK THEM... --- http://ideateandexecute.com

Why are we so concerned that AI is going to replace us? Even when we position it as an augment to us, and that it will take on burdensome work - but what if there are humans out there who want to do that? In the far future, we will all have the ability to do whatever we want - even things that people feel are burdensome. We need AI to augment human happiness, in the end. --- http://ideateandexecut...

We need to treat each other better on the internet, and then AI will learn to become better. We are the ones who created the monsters, now we need to re-parent them properly.

One of the reasons we are so horrible to each other online is that we are clamoring for attention. We figure that if we can be loud and negative, then someone will pay attention to us.  --- http://ideateandexecute.com

or the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. She’s an expert on digital transformation, leadership, customer experience, and the future of work. She’s the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership, and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She currently s...

As the internet progressed from a wild west model to a more controlled model, we needed to try to capture more and more attention. Unfortunately, this ended up messing us up, big time.   Part 2 of 4  --- http://ideateandexecute.com

There has been story after story of how AI bots are really terrible, from Tay to Amazon Recruiting, learning from the way humans work just isn't working. How do we create better AI models? --- http://ideateandexecute.com

We now live in a world with an AI and big data-driven highly curated feed of information fired at us 24/7. It's almost like the only way we can be creative and innovative is to step away from the feed and spend time in the natural world (instead of the virtual world on our devices). --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Have we now evolved away from Homo Sapiens (Thinking Man) to Homo Nexus (Connected Man)? Have we entered an age where we cannot make decisions on our own and need to leverage the collective at all times? --- https://ideateandexecute.com

There is no generic "meaning of life" - everyone has their own meaning of life - and we need to appeal to people's personal meaning. I don't think most people find meaning in work - they find meaning in other ways.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Most people have a job that makes money, and a side hustle that is something they like to do - how do to make people understand the value of the stuff you do in your side hustle? How can we get people to pay for the value created through your side hustle? --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Work and life are all experiments in the lab of life.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

No matter how much data we capture on people, we still can't figure them out. This is how complicated we are. Plus, we don't really know what we want and we constantly want to change ourselves. --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Some of the most amazing, forward-thinking product innovations are people just solving their own problems. From Elon Musk's Boring Co to Smores to PopSockets, solve your own problem and build a business around it. --- https://ideateandexecute.com