thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

If you really care about climate change, forget about electric vehicles. You are simply not taking full responsibility for the generation of the energy used to move your car around. Just get the smallest displacement internal combustion engine, the most efficient energy creator humans have developed.

Do you know the difference between objective and subjective reality? Aligning yourself and your teams with objective reality is your best chance at winning the future.

Creativity is an unlimited resource in your life. Thus, the motivation of the people you surround yourself, spend time with, and invest in is the wellspring of your own personal creativity. When you help them tap into their motivation, it pays back in spades for your own.    The greatest leaders are unstoppable because they tap into the creativity of the people they surround themsel...

Instead of regurgitating the past, we should all focus on creating new knowledge

Even when you are doing something as boring as vendor selection, design thinking is important.

An author, entrepreneur, and acclaimed international speaker, Frans Johansson has inspired readers and audiences worldwide with his ideas on leadership and success, innovation, and D&I. He is the Founder and CEO of The Medici Group, an enterprise solutions firm that empowers organizations to leverage diversity and inclusion to build and sustain high-performing teams. Frans is also the author o...

If you look at most of the successful startups (and internal innovation programs) throughout history, you’ll note a trend – there are usually two or more partner founders (or intrapreneurs) right there at the beginning (although eBay is a notable difference). Additionally, these partners need to have specific traits, typically one is the more extroverted sales type, and the other is the more intro...

your audience is more important than your product

A transformative leader with 10 years of expertise in cross-vertical digital marketing, brand strategy, innovation, and client partnerships. Big thinking entrepreneur who thrives on opportunity and culture, getting people and businesses to do their best work.

If Something Upsets You, Does That Make It More Innovative?  Let’s face it – most people don’t like change. We like things being the way they are – even the word “upset” has a negative connection – to turn over the “set” to break with the established order. The only problem is that there are so many things we can have the ability to SOLVE if only we would be willing to “upset” things.

Would you eat grown meat? In the future of food, our meat will be grown, not raised - will you - and someone who might be into natural foods - still, want to eat replicated meat? What if it used to be rubber? An old tire?

Peter Mulford is an executive vice president at BTS, where he leads the firm’s Innovation & Digital Transformation practice. Peter leads business transformation and capability-building efforts with Fortune 500 firms around the world (such as Sony, Microsoft, Time Warner and Merck) with a focus on developing innovation leadership, design thinking, and disciplined experimentation capability. His...

Humans learn by copying others - fake it till you make it is the best advice.

The closer you can align your reality with the truth, the better.

Over the past 1.5 years, Sandeep has championed an initiative to promote a culture of innovation at this Company. We cover: Barriers to Innovation in large organizations Why a balanced Innovation portfolio matters in large organizations How he is transforming the innovation culture Sandeep Kibey serves as the Wells and Materials Supervisor in Lab Operations at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company...

The Internet could have solved all human problems by simply connecting every human being with every other human being. But now, its all run by the middlemen. Humans need to wrest control of the internet back from the middlemen.

Nature is hierarchical, some of us feel that we are more evolved than that. This is the truth. Like the circumference of the earth. That can be true too. Unfortunately, we don't live in the real world, we live in our own manufactured reality. A reality that is manufactured by others or ourselves. Sometimes. humans can't handle the truth. They suppress the truth. This happens when you innovate. You...

Check out this cool interview with Jenna Beglin, Director, Consumer Research & Insights, NA Services at Samsung Electronics   Jenna Beglin is an applied consumer research expert, specializing in guiding concept and early-stage software/services product strategy and design. She started her career in digital strategy consulting at Accenture, before completing her MBA at Cornell. She then tr...

One of the reasons that it is truly difficult to remove bias from AI is that AI is modeled on the past, not the future. Humans also model themselves on the past: we have to work hard to model the future we want, as opposed to the past reality we had.

How can you reconcile the tendency of human beings to lie with Design Thinking?

Dr. Owen Muir co-founded Brooklyn Minds with the understanding that help needs to be understood as helpful. In addition to serving as Medical Director, Dr. Muir oversees our groundbreaking deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) program. Dr. Muir’s work is novel in a number of ways. Not only is he one of the 5 official supervisors in North America for Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for...

for XR to be successful it needs two things a) it needs to bypass our senses and get plugged right into our brain and b) it needs to stop emulating real life and start being BETTER than real life.

media is now subtle as a hammer - have we lost the ability to be subtle and intuit things - or if everyone has a hammer have we all turned into nails? we should all try to make our audiences THINK, it's what humans are best at after all.

Donnell Layne is a leading-edge technology executive committed to the creation of sustainable, efficient, service-orientated innovation environments. He previously served with the Noble Network of Charter Schools, Chicago’s largest charter school network, directing all IT operations to meet customer requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing infrastructure, applications, and d...

when we lived in small villages we could easily demonstrate trust - its much more difficult now - but we can still do it - we have the technology