Digital Optimist

In a world where data and analytics are being applied in new ways, we explore the evolving “Trust Score”. The foundations have been laid with people judging the ability to trust someone based on their online presence, credit score, work history, school grades, etc. Will a Trust Score help the world be a safer place where people work hard to have a good Trust Score, or will this kind of measurement overly punish people for every mistake they ever made? Now is the time to think through the ramifications of using digital transformation in this way!

Does everything need to be measured? The concept of technology driven quantification and measuring has far reaching impact and is not often discussed which makes it a perfect Digital Optimist topic. The capability for people, organizations, and products to be rated, to be quantified, to be measured, in very public ways is expanding. The door is now wide open as people have credit scores they never asked for, UBER drivers are rated, and social media has a currency of measurement all its own called “likes”. Gazing into the future, we will get new measurements like Trust Scores that will have positive and negative impacts on people. Although data and analytics are wonderful for bringing clarity to the Truth, humanity may see some interesting consequences to creating measurement systems for very human characteristics such as the level of trust we can put in a person.

Adding machine intelligence to automation opens up a world of new possibilities. As we stand on the brink of replacing more parts of systems formerly done by humans, it is critical to examine the impacts on the world. This is the kind of podcast Scott loves to create and deliver!

Most people think of the office or their organization when they hear the topic of automation. However, there as much or more automation going on in our personal lives today. While automation at work helps organizations be more profitable and mechanize processes and systems, automation in our personal lives has very different impacts. In this podcast Scott paints a picture as to the current levels of personal automation we often take for granted, and the future view of the automation mesh that will have a big impact on our life experiences from now on.

As a new wave of intelligent automation tools with levels get used in the workforce, we shift the Humalogy balance. Scott makes new observations as to the ideas and best practices people need to know in order to gain a tactical advantage with further automating the systems that drive organizations. In the larger picture, we are replacing large swaths of work formerly done by hand and the long term ramifications of trusting machines with doing the majority of work in an organization need to be discussed.

Let's focus on what we mean when we say "intelligent automation."

How is the development of AI learning coming along? How is it helplful, and what will it look like in the future?

What makes someone a Digital Centaur? Being a highly evolved human being with many skills in the technology world. In this episode Scott discusses what makes someone a Centaur Leader vs a Centaur Citizen.

As technology evolves, so does the way we live. The Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping how our lives are lived and what devices are used for everything from cooking to monitoring your health. What does the future of smart sensors & devices look like? What are some examples of what they can do and how will they change our lives? Host Scott Klososky explores these questions and more in the latest installment of Digital Optimist's series on Machine Intelligence.

The machines are learning. The latest in predictive analytics is called real-time predictive analytics, which uses data from sensors to make predictions about the present and future of an event. In this episode, host Scott Klososky explains why this technology has huge implications for industries like transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing that rely heavily on forecasting as a part of their workflows today.