thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

After 4 years in limbo, the JOBS act will finally allow regular people to invest in startups for equity, opening up a huge new funding source. It's a great day. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p113/

Did you know that being bored helps you innovate? Stop consuming and start thinking in those idle moments - who knows what innovative ideas you can come up with. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p112/

Chris goes into detail on how 90% of the internet is now content marketing, people blasting sales messages thinly disguised as content on all channels. Its time to disrupt this. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p111/

Disrupted shows an older worker trying to fit into a startup culture where ageism abounds - how do you defeat this stuff? Tolerance, rapport building, and busting out of the stereotype  https://thinkfuture.com/110-defeating-ageism-sexism-and-racism-with-rapport-tolerance-and-stereotype-busting/

Is your innovation program a failure because it didn't produce a unicorn? Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p109/

Forget Mobile. Focus on no interface chat bots instead.

It won't be long before we see virtual mates on the market. People are already getting married to AIs in Japan.  https://thinkfuture.com/107-will-you-be-picking-a-virtual-mate-soon/

Most of the sharing economy jobs which are being created are ending up being menial jobs which will eventually be replaced with autonomous cars, drones and algorithms. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p106/

[A tale of two peoples. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p105/

Chris goes into detail on how audience is more important that almost anything when you are building a business. https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p104/

Looking for disruptive innovation? No matter if your company is big or small, young or old, it all comes down to Open Mind. Show Notes https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p103/

In this episode, Chris talks about two ideas and he invented back in 2006 and 2000 respectively, and how those ideas went on to be great startups - today, but not then. Show Notes https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p102/

Bars and restaurants and going offline - people are being more meditative and mindful - this is a real trend or just nostalgia?

Chris discussed 3 types of innovation and what innovation really means

While the secret to having a successful startup is not really much of a secret - you need passion skill and most importantly demand to succeed.

Australia decides to replace history and geography in elementary school with coding - good to see some real disruption going on in education

Do you look at your day and you are totally booked solid with no time to waste? This may be why you are not innovating. Chris explains why one way to innovate is to purposely waste time

Looking to prepare for the future? Then maybe instead of planning everything out, maybe focus on being resilient instead.

One of the ways we innovate in our workshops - take the maze backwards.

How To Beat the Upcoming Recession? This is the absolute perfect time to run an internal, crowdsourced, innovation program.

Will the future be awesome, or will it suck? Chris talks about social media 10 years out, and what the world will be like, and how we might feel about it.

If you want REAL stability in your work life, you MUST start your own business. Being an entrepreneur returns the control of your life back to YOU.

Many people feel that innovation must be a huge, game-changing, life altering event.

Worried about the seemingly forhcoming recession of 2016? Now is the time to double-down on your innovation program - now is the time to grow through innovation

Who will win in a war between virtual and augmented reality? Whenever we create virtual things, they are always surpassed by real things. Modifying real things, be it sounds, brains or reality, always wins.