thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Ben Podbielski is Assistant Vice President of the Emerging Technology team at Protective Life where he focuses on applying entrepreneurship principles to internal proof of concepts, with a specific focus towards artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. Ben is a 2017 graduate of Birmingham’s Project Corporate Leadership, was honored as one of the EDPA’s “iMerging” Young Leaders in 2...

Adam Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with the highly skilled technical and design talent they need. Prior to founding Braintrust, Adam co-founded Doctor on Demand, the popular video telemedicine provider, with daytime talk show personality Dr. Phil, as well as his son Jay McGraw. Other notable ventures include Driv...

On Episode 307 Evan Mulcahy Director of  Innovation  @ Credit Union 1 talks innovation in financial services and the awesomeness of Alaska. --- Evan Mulcahy is a credit union leader, influencer, and future professor of economics. Plus he’s an Alaskan. Evan is known for using analytical thinking to break down and help people understand complex human experiences. Currently working as Direc...

As Chief Innovation Officer, Dave leads GAP in developing, implementing, and supporting an expanded services strategy. He is playing an instrumental role in launching new Strategy and Transformation Service offerings to combine with GAP’s nearshore software development in covering the entire services stack.  With over 25 years of experience in technology, Dave has worked in senior leadership...

Dale P. Johnson: Director, Digital Innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University Wide-ranging interview on the future of education - we discuss the possibilities of adaptive learning, relevancy, memorization, breaking out of the concept of a "class," mass personalization, individualized life-long learning, and critical thinking. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-p-johns...

Innovating in plant-based beverages and foods - Creating 40+ products a year - experimentation works! The Innovation Lifecycle - grass-roots ideation - research and rapid prototyping to test product Agile innovation - tough to create category busting products but it can be done Breaking out of the "shelf-space" slots - no need for shelf space if online Super unique and different: need to gather fe...

Jason focuses on next-generation technologies and their impact on the colocation, interconnection, hybrid cloud, and edge computing strategies. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtcarolan

Danielle Carnes, the VP for Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Edmonds College. We cover: Is higher education still relevant to the faster pace of today? Envisioning the future and backcasting to today Education will be more modular and just-in-time Staying in tune with the job market in much more important Colleges should be teaching critical thinking and how to learn Higher education works...

A great conversation on the present and future of podcasts and audio with Caila Litman, the Director, Podcast Sales & Enterprise Product Innovation for Condé Nast. We cover the past and future of audio and podcasting - from the original 2005 meetups at Tommys Joynt in San Francisco where we thought that podcasts were going to change the world, to how the future will be voice-activated. Just li...

• Interview with Mark McLellan from UNT • Managing education through COVID disruption • How to revise education in the new normal • Building our cities to let us eat - we need large scale productive farms • The Future of Food - creative use of vegetable proteins • Replicating and Improving the remote experience

I interview Aidan Petrie (112 patents), who runs the New England Medical Innovation Center. We discuss where the health care industry is going in the United States and globally, how we are seeing more systems as opposed to single-purpose devices, how the lines are blurred between devices that need to go through the standard FDA process and which don't. It's a surprise to me that even with all of t...

Dr. Luther Brewster has spent the past 15 years launching health professional schools, developing community-based medicine curriculums and healthcare delivery models that would facilitate evolution in healthcare. Currently, he is a member of an executive leadership team recruited to Roseman University of Health Sciences to create a new medical school for the Southern Nevada region.  linkedin:...

An interesting wide-ranging interview with Economist Badri Gopalakrishnan from Infinite Sum Modeling Technological progress tends to be retarded by policy  Does technology or policy drive innovation? How policy can negatively affect innovation Technology is powerful but is only part of the picture Policy always lags technological progress - but it doesn't need to be so Startups don't have to...

http://hellofuture.co   i interview martin schneider, the head of corporate strategy at sugarcrm. we cover the future of crm and customer experience. we talk working from anywhere, how ai can help people sell and get what they want, how big data can change things, talent acquisition, how ai can pre-emptively get us jobs, mates, and stuff, intentional communications, and much more.  ...

working from anywhere is better than working in an office in all ways.

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the thinkfuture podcast. I'm your host, Crystal Palace, and once again, we're coming in July from deep in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. Now I ask you. Do you find that innovation has stalled lately? The innovation has run up against a brick wall and doesn't seem to be getting anywhere. And I wonder if that has something to do with us stepping away f...

Do you feel that innovation is meaningless? An actual quote from the leader of an innovation group "At this point, thinking about the future is meaningless" Falling back on short-term thinking is a mistake They don't see the ramifications of this Look beyond the crisis - surf on it or hide under it Take the crisis and use it as an opportunity for your company to grow Example: we learn to eliminate...

Why do disruptive innovation efforts fail so often? Is innovation all about meeting customer desires? JTBD Theory creates a "job description" of the customer's desires There is the "job" and "how is the job done"  Similar to things I've been talking about There is always a mismatch between demand and supply We can use technology to capture the customer's desire and write a job description for...

Are you denying human nature when you design your products? When you try to make humans better, most of the times your efforts fall flat Do you expect too much of your customers? Like rational behavior? It's near impossible to change human nature, so you need to work with it not against it Communism and socialism fail because they expect people to change their essential human natures Acceptance of...

3 Tips on Dealing with Time Firstly, people don't start working on stuff until halfway until it's due For example, if your team has a 4-week deadline, then they won't start working on it in earnest in 2 weeks. So always cut your deadlines in half. Work both expands and contracts to fit the time allotted Secondly, imagine in your mind that the work involved to complete a task is much more than it i...

Ajita was recently appointed as CEO of Calbright College – a public, online campus founded in 2018 designed to prepare millions for the future of work. Calbright teaches the hard and soft skills required to succeed on day one of employment, and crafts low-to-no-cost online program pathways designed to connect students with new job opportunities. A former higher-education tsar in the Obama administ...

Are you lazy? Are your customers lazy? Do your customers prefer things to be done for them? Then why do you force your customer's through your own hoops? People don't want to "bank", they want their money managed. People don't want a mortgage, they want a home People don't want a car loan, they want a car Are you making your customers jump through hoops to work with you? Are you worried that talki...

Are you getting the kind of innovation that you are looking for? Ever wonder why that is? Maybe they aren't incentivized to create billion-dollar ideas? Maybe they are actually incentivized to play politics? What kind of incentives are you dangling in front of your employees? Most companies promote and award people for career movement, not better solutions that delight your customers. Which are yo...

Ever had to deal with Negativity and Negative People? They shoot down your ideas and tell you how things are so terrible What do you do with them? Where do negative people take you? You probably can't change them into something else Negative people have their place - maybe not in your innovation group Get them out of your situation - innovation requires optimism Maybe they say they are mindreading...

So much should have happened by now: Blade Runner, The Eugenics Wars, Flying Cars, Living on Mars, Human Clones, Time Looping Super Soldiers, Khan Noonien Singh, much longer life expectancy We have none of this - although we may have human clones somewhere Everything that is possible will happen - the only question is when What do you want to do tomorrow? The future is up to you Can't do anything...