thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Alex is the Director of Strategic Innovation at Samsung, focusing on the mobile category - thinking about the future of mobile devices. Trend analysis, the evolution of business models, design affordances, smart and sensible design, rooted in lean startup methodologies.

we used to think that it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission, but in the world of today, what are the chances you WILL be forgiven?

you can become successful in many fields with 10000 hours of practice - just not in any field.

I am currently director of product innovation at McKesson Corporation, a pharmaceutical and healthcare IT company. I work for a technical division, MPTS - Macro Helix, where we create software for hospitals and pharmacies. My primary role is to analyze the industry and discover market problems that we can build software to solve.

if you have all the time and space in the world, can you still be creative?

sometimes dumb is good.

Karin Lange is Head of the FutureLab at La Mobilière, Switzerland’s oldest private insurance company that has operated on a mutual basis since its founding in 1826. The FutureLab is part of Corporate Foresight Management and the innovation department. Making the future tangible is her passion – with the goal to develop the skill of future thinking for the majority of the employees. Using joint (em...

there is gold in the empty white spaces between things.

sometimes, as we get stuck in our lives, we forget to ask "why are we doing what we are doing?" we need to stop and question ourselves

Brad Kirshenbaum is the Director of Innovation for CA Ventures, a global real-estate development firm. He works to enhance the resident experience, property management efficiency, and building NOI by implementing a variety of technologies: both high and low-tech. Prior to joining CA Ventures, he served as the Director of Marketing for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands and developed an educa...

if you really think about it - it is war between those who want to think about the implications of the future and those who want to actively create that future

if we stay too safe - we will never be able to innovate

Jamie Justice is driven and focused on finding new ways to help people think differently about how they address challenges in their organizations and in education. Relying upon his truly unique mix of career opportunities and experiences, Jamie is able to bring a breadth of knowledge and experience to help organizations find new approaches, create new ideas, and develop new initiatives for change...

do you only have one job? how twentieth-century of you.   https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

Most in-home senior care sucks. We’re Mike Clark and Rod Palmer, the founders of Dwell at Home. When our parents began to age we realized the in-home senior care business has hardly changed since it was created in the 1080s. Call an agency they send out the next “sitter”. Our parents deserve better.   The devices we carry on our site have changed our lives, from catching a ride to buying...

why do we keep putting humans in buckets when we should be working to uplift all humans? support the show: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

every human has access to all of the world's information at all times, but yet, human beings never change. don't you think that humans should be different by now?  support the show: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

Mordecai is an award-winning Innovation leader, pioneering lauded work across technology, product, and culture for the world’s top brands including Hyundai whom she created and ran Innocean’s Innovation & Partnerships group. Her work at Hyundai includes a ground-breaking suite of AR-driven tech for Hyundai in partnership with Live Nation, and the launches of Future Of Mobility efforts with Hyu...

Look back upon your day and tell me if you ever just stopped and did nothing? That you put your phone down, or put your remote down (after you turned off the TV), or put your book down, and sat there, closed your eyes, and did nothing? You either cleared your mind entirely or focused on a specific word, phrase, or breathing pattern.

experiment - test - pivot - repeat

Thor is leading Avanade’s Innovation Lab and Experience  Center in Houston and is responsible for driving innovation internally as well as with Avanade’s clients. Thor has developed innovative solutions and strategies for clients in Oil and Gas, Utilities, Retail, Manufacturing, and Consulting,  including Schlumberger, McDermott, BHGE, Marathon Oil,  Marathon Petroleum, Occidental P...

ever noticed how well you do when you first pick up a game?

have we now become homo nexus - the always-connected human?

Jen Grant currently leads Appify as CEO, delivering an enterprise-grade no-code platform that supports companies such as TataMD, Johnson & Johnson, and Keysight in quickly delivering apps to their mobile workforces. Prior to Appify, spent the last 15 years taking multiple companies to over a billion-dollar valuation. As CMO, Jen Grant led Looker’s marketing until the 2.6B acquisition by Google...

it is the closest system to nature