thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

We need to push human beings closer together to take advantage of electricity, so if you think about it, this might be part of the pushback against electricity across the board because it's anti indeed individualistic and tough. To be an individualistic hi Tracy lover when you need to be connected to a grid to get sufficient electricity to run your life because that's the life we're in if we ran o...

Darren is the Co-Founder & COO, of Hugo (www.hugo.team). Originally from Sydney, Australia and now based in San Francisco, Darren co-founded Hugo following his shared frustration with costly, inefficient meetings that he experienced first-hand in a prior life as a corporate lawyer. Today, Hugo is the leading meeting workflow solution, powering meetings for tens of thousands of customers. Backe...

Can we use machines to bring order to the chaotic human world?

No matter how much misinformation we are surrounded with, we need to never forget reality.

John Standish is a Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for Infinilytics, Inc., and is responsible for the development of Charlee advanced analytics solution for the insurance and health- care industries.

On your death bed, imagine yourself where you whether your home in your hospital or whether you're wherever you are, imagine yourself dying you're in your death that you're just about ready to go, and you're looking back on your life.   People want to talk about today. People want to talk about positive things. Nobody wants to talk about the future.

Is what you want more important than what everyone else wants?

David is the Co-Founder, and Lead Developer of Sia , which is a decentralized cloud storage network that ultimately allows its users to have more control over their data. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers. David has been active in Bitcoin and the larger cryptocurrency space since...

Not sure why we got so pessimistic about the future - things ARE getting better - and we need to make it so.

Have you decided how you will dent the universe yet?  

Interview with the director of brand innovation at JustJans at justjans.com

See if you can guess what kind of person I'm talking about in this video.

What is a better space to be in - one with competitors or one without?

Manpreet Randhawa is a beauty enthusiast, author, avid hiker, and aspiring entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in the health & wellness industry. She brings expertise in scientifically driven health care solutions in different categories with a passion to innovate and create products that connect with consumers and deliver meaningful results. With an educational background in cellular bio...

kalaboukis discusses Girard's Mimetic Theory and how it applies to design thinking and other customer-centric desire determination methodologies.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory https://amzn.to/3BhaDW4

So many of us have lost touch with objective reality or truth. How can we get back to it?

Serial Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor, and a Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence. Coined the term ‘AGI’ (Artificial General Intelligence) with fellow luminaries in the space. Started in electronics engineering, then fell in love with software. The first major success was developing a comprehensive ERP package and taking that company from Zero to 400-person IPO in seven years. Fueled by the fragil...

There are ways to balance innovation and profitability: it's not a zero-sum game.

Normal is contextual. In reality, there is no such thing as "normal".

Jeff Phillipich serves credit unions in AR, OK, and TX as the SVP of Strategic Development for Cornerstone. He has worked in financial services for over 15 years with 10 years of non-for-profit financial cooperative work. Currently, Jeff is working on projects applying the cooperative model to fintech start-ups and established providers to create economies of scale for small financial institutions...

Sometimes you need to disagree with yourself to get to the truth.

There are always more than two sides to everything. Human beings are more complicated than that.

Melissa Rojo is leading the data migration and conversion of one of the largest American bank's most prominent loan products. She is also a project manager of an internal IBM initiative known as TechTalks. This end-to-end internal strategy is started by inviting the most up and coming startups, across all sectors to present to an exclusive group of IBMers and interested external parties. These sta...

There is one phrase that I dislike more than any other - and that's "low hanging fruit" - I've lost count of the number of times we talk about this in meetings - we have to stop focusing on the low hanging fruit and reach higher in the tree. You can't dent the universe without reaching to the top of the tree.

If you find yourself saying the above phrase to yourself when you are working on your startup, that is an indicator that something is wrong and you might need to pivot.