thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Wade Martin, PhD is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at California State University, Long Beach. He works primarily in the area of risk analysis related to business development and sustainability for local economic development. He has worked on projects for Downtown Long Beach Alliance, CalRECYLES, the World Bank, U.S. Agency for Internatio...

What if you have the most amazing idea which will improve the human race but n o one will pay for it?

We constantly use negative options to prey on our customer's innate human laziness. Are we not better served by serving our customers and giving them better options? We have all the data and intelligence - why can't we use that to improve their lives in addition to maintaining profitability?

do you comply, then change the law, or the opposite? http://hellofuture.co

Innovation is the furthest thing from most "innovation"  http://hellofuture.co

Suzy Engwall is the National Director at the Innovation Lab at the Innovation Institute in Southern California.  The Innovation Institute is a for-profit, limited liability company currently owned by six non-profit health systems.  We serve as the commercialization arm of these health systems as well as the change agent for creating a culture of innovation.   Suzy is responsibl...

It's past time that the internet needs to be reformed.   http://hellofuture.co

you can't ever change if you are never uncomfortable.   http://hellofuture.co

Most media lacks emotions since there is no longer a BIG BAD or even a BIG GOOD  http://hellofuture.co

constraints can make you more creative  http://hellofuture.co

Nigel Smith is a passionate and visionary entrepreneur and board director. He is the Founder and CEO of Zurena LLC, a Silver Spring MD-based startup that is defining a new category of drink mixers – the premium universal drink mixer. Zurena all-natural drink mixers can be used to create an unlimited number of high-quality tropical cocktails, mocktails, and hot toddies with just a splash. In his ro...

the post-scarcity society is on its way, but we are too afraid to embrace it - this might be why we are tearing ourselves apart trying to maintain the scarcity society.   http://hellofuture.co

changing your name won't absolve you of your responsibility to allow every human to connect with every other human  http://hellofuture.co

Current depictions of the future never seem to get it right - all they do is thrust 21st-century human beings into the future without thinking how future human beings will be like. Future humans will be very different from the humans of today: it's up to us to make them better.   https:/hellofuture.co

Sometimes, to make things better, you need to break out of your current state.   https://hellofuture.co

As the Head of Innovation in Silicon Valley at North American Lighting (NAL), A Koito Group Company, Amit works with startups, Tier 1s, and OEMs to find partnerships/investments in adjacent and transformational areas that can contribute to vehicle safety through the evolution of lighting.  Prior to this, Amit lead the technical marketing department in Michigan for NAL.  Before joining NA...

Time to take back our individuality from the crowd. https://hellofuture.co

If you need to present your work, do you go first, last, or somewhere in the middle? As innovators, we need to tread new ground.    https://hellofuture.co

Unlike my futurist peers, I don't think we are anywhere near losing jobs to AI - sure in very narrow and specific tasks, AI might be able to do the trick, for everything else, we need human beings to step in and do the work.   https://hellofuture.co

Everyone is resigning because their employers are turning a blind eye to how much more their employees prefer remote work to commute work. Remote work is the future - commute work is the past. Remote work is SO much better for everyone's productivity, health, wellness, and sustainability, that no one should be surprised by the Great Resignation.    https://hellofuture.co

Brian R Johnson has helped over 20,000 brands sell over $1B on Amazon through ad strategy and conversion rate optimization. He offers guidance to, and partners with, brands & sellers through his online community, Amazon PPC Troubleshooting, as well as through coaching, software, training courses, and, his flagship advertising agency, CANOPY Management.   http://www.canopymanagement.com/&n...

Internet search is broken. It's 99% crap. We need the original Yahoo! back - the hand-curated, hand-coded directory of only the good stuff - human selected only!   http://hellofuture.co

It is time to retire the individual and only focus on the collective? Have we finally evolved beyond homo sapiens (wise) to homo nexus (connected)?   http;//hellofuture.co

Despite the dystopian futures which seem to be in style - we are the ones who can make these futures happen. Many of the horrible things we thought were going to happen never happened due to human ingenuity. We need to look at the future through the lens of the future. The future has always provided more unseen and unknown opportunities.   http://hellofuture.co

Innovators come from everywhere, but they all have the same challenges. Is innovation a thing - is it marketing? Is it cultural? Is innovation just lip service? http://hellofuture.co