thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Capitalism is great One failure of capitalism: if a great idea has no business model, it's unlikely to be pursued - if it doesn't make money, it won't happen. For innovative new products, we need to measure a different metric - JOY Some ideas are AMAZING, but they don't make money Even if they are great, you have to look at them through a commercial lens The ideas go away when companies can't figu...

We humans actively seek out the new, and the Cybertruck is that Even though I don't believe in electric vehicles, I love the DESIGN Electric cars are just REPOSITIONING the electric generation It looks DAMN COOL and AMAZING Every car on the road looks exactly the same Every car maker is stealing ideas from other carmakers Even the Teslas are boring Cybertruck is the future. I want to be part of th...

http://thinkfuture.com   ** FEEL FREE TO LISTEN AT 2X SPEED **   Why are we in this innovation "rut"? Its safety over innovation From the 1880s to 1950s where there was so much innovation going on - it was crazy Since then, we've hardly invented anything We are so concerned about hurting ourselves that we are holding ourselves back Look at the invention of the car and the plane. People u...

http://hellofuture.co Are you truly understanding and delivering on your customer's core desires? Probably not. Customers want great THINGS and EXPERIENCES, not to pay bills, get mortgages, or negotiate to buy a used car. How close is your product and service to address your core customer desires?

It's not only about applying digital to your current processes Digital is just an application of technology Terrible processes which are digitized aren't any better People look at digital-first before they think about transformation when it should be the other way around Digital is simple compared to the transformation The tough part is transforming your business first.

Keith Keating has a career spanning over 20 years in learning and development (L&D). He is well known in the industry as a workforce futurist, design thinking practitioner, and L&D thought leader. Keith is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania’s chief learning officer program. https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-keating-1976963a/

Digital shaper, speaker, and thought leader. Award-winning technology marketer. Startup and entrepreneurship lecturer. Founder of the world’s first App stores.

John Carter is a recognized expert in helping global organizations improve the speed and innovation of product development. As Principal of TCGen Inc., he has advised many top firms such as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, HP, IBM, Roche, and Westinghouse.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic (CRUS) a leading semiconductor firm.  John has had roles of CTO (Klipsch Group) and Ch...

Show Notes: Nerjada (Ada) Maksutaj has recently completed her MBA at Berkeley Haas and is the 2020 Fellow for the Center for Responsible Business. Prior to business school, Ada worked as a strategy consultant with Accenture advising on digital transformation, corporate innovation, and social entrepreneurship projects with clients including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and Pearson Educ...

We talk with Ionut Vlad, the inventor of a crazy, kooky no-human-needed promotion device - works great and generates tons of data. https://www.tokinomo.com  (website) https://youtu.be/ydo0Sz4NW7c  (Trailer) https://bit.ly/38bv3jo  (shopper’s reaction) https://youtu.be/_xxpdJ8oaAI  (Nutella dialogue mentioned) About Ionut Vlad - founder and CEO of Tokinomo Bucharest Art Universi...

Please see the link for the Plug N Play Summer Summit: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/summer-summit-2020/ Allen is the Director of Corporate Partnerships at Plug and Play. He develops strategic partnerships and joint ventures with corporations to find business development, licensing, acquisition, and investment opportunities among Plug and Play's startup network. He oversees a team managing...

Veljko Krunic is an independent consultant and trainer specializing in data science, big data, and helping his clients get actionable business results from AI. He holds a Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an additional MS in engineering management from the same institution. His MS degree in engineering management focused on applied statistics, strategic plan...

Are you stressed?  Are you worried? Are you down? Are you feeling the weight of the world behind you? Are you feeling the pressure? This modern world is lots of reasons why you might be feeling the pressure.  The one thing that I find really interesting about all of these things that are stressing us out is that none of these things are real. Nothing is real.  Time is not real. 2:00...

Aneri Pradhan is a social innovator who is passionate about using technology to solve large ecosystem problems. She is a 2X Founder; she is the Founder of ENVenture (acquired by New Energy Nexus), an award-winning incubator that finances and trains rural cooperatives in Uganda to start clean energy businesses. She also serves on the Board of Directors of New Energy Nexus, a leading clean energy no...

Urvi is a Master Connector, Emotionally Wealthy, and a Nomadic personality. She is a 20 year, reformed, Fortune 10 corporate executive. (AT&T, IBM, Coca- Cola, Walmart). The consistent thread in her career is her ability to have an innovative mindset, that creates solutions through collaboration and focuses on the human element, that pushes the business forward. Her mindset is driven by her li...

Just read some of that far-future hard Scifi and backcast to today. 

TL;DR: Inventor has a problem, invents a product to solve his problem, tries the product out with friends and family, friends and family use the product for a completely different purpose, inventor pivots the product to focus on the purpose, profit!

Beyond diversity - you need cognitive diversity to drive innovation and disruption.

Coronavirus: Is it finally killing the time suck which is commuting? Plus, how to atomize your normally monolithic block of work. Think LEGO.

DON’T PANIC: The cover of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is 100% accurate. No matter what you read or hear, do not allow it to drive you to panic. Panic is completely unproductive. QUESTION MESSAGES: Especially news headlines. Headlines are designed to grab your attention, and may not lead to reality. CONTEXT IS KING: Ignore or research statistics without context. Saying that there are 500 c...

Discussing how this experience may push us towards improving the remote experience over the in-person experience. I then go over my WFH setup: internet speeds, backup hotspot, standing desk, timer, wide-screen curved monitor, HD camera, enough light, good gaming headphones, air pods or phone headphones, ember, ulla, fridge (stocked with water and your favorite beverage), chair, 2 UPSes (one for yo...

If you are looking to build and launch breakthrough products, then you don’t need to be reasonable, you need to be unreasonable. Being reasonable keeps you in the realm of incremental innovation, adding small new features and functions to a product until it gets so complicated and unwieldy that a whole industry has to be built around it (Microsoft Windows and Office anyone?) No, to make breakthrou...

Our smartphones have already turned us into cyborgs. We should just admit it and understand that we have evolved into a new kind of human - one that cannot survive without augmentation.

Look around you. Unless you are in nature somewhere - almost everything around you is a human invention.

Just like Frank Lloyd Wright, current architecture is saddled by zoning, rules and regulations. Do you have similar rules when it comes to developing innovative products and services?