Exponential Minds Podcast with Chief Futurist Nikolas Badminton

Welcome to the new Exponential Minds Podcast where Global Futurist Nikolas Badminton speaks to amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

This episode features Tom Goodwin - Linkedin's top influencer, journalist, analyst, and strategist that looks after all content and innovation initiatives at Zenith Media. He has a goal of unleashing the power of new technology, building products not just buying media, for making what content marketing can become, for navigating what’s changed and what’s not.

Tom believes that innovation is of course about ideas and conversations, but also making it happen.

References:

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomfgoodwin/

Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that provides keynote speeches about the future of work, the sharing economy, and how the world is evolving. Nikolas is based in Vancouver, BC, and speaks across Canada, USA, UK, Asia, and Europe. See more at www.nikolasbadminton.com

Nikolas Badminton talks to CBC Business Radio about a cashless society. This broadcast was one of the top-3 stories on Wednesday 26th April across Canada.

Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, is a regular contributor to Lynda Steele and Drex’s CKNW Drive Time show talking about a number of future-forward items from The Future of Work, The Sharing Economy, Privacy, and other items of public interest.

In this episode – Nikolas Badminton Discusses the Future of Work – Nikolas talks about how work is changing with the rise of automation and artificial intelligence.

In this episode Nikolas interviews Dr. Marina Adshade who has spent the last fourteen years teaching economics and engaging in original economic research.

They discuss how technology influences relationships, what modern marriage can be, and how things are likely to change.

In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The class was an immediate hit with students and, by the time the first term started, had generated international media attention.

She has a Ph.D. from Queen’s University and currently teaches economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Adshade is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail and Time Magazine and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times (UK), the Daily Mail (UK) and Buzzfeed. She has made numerous TV appearances on CTV and CBC, interviews on CBC Radio and Nationa

In this episode Nikolas interviews Dr. Marina Adshade who has spent the last fourteen years teaching economics and engaging in original economic research.

They discuss how technology influences relationships, what modern marriage can be, and how things are likely to change.

In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The class was an immediate hit with students and, by the time the first term started, had generated international media attention.

She has a Ph.D. from Queen’s University and currently teaches economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Adshade is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail and Time Magazine and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times (UK), the Daily Mail (UK) and Buzzfeed. She has made numerous TV appearances on CTV and CBC, interviews on CBC Radio and National Public Radio (US), online panel discussions, international and domestic print media (including the Daily Mail, London, and Reuters) and podcasts in Canada and the US.

Dr. Adshade’s first book, Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love appeared in bookstores in March 2013.

References:

www.marinaadshade.com

In this episode we see Nikolas at the Asia-Pacific Communications Summit talking about the birth of the internet, technoshamans, the predictions of Rushkoff and McKenna, how technology companies are controlling out psycho-social-physiological urges to create hyperconnectivity. Implied value and a return to the human condition of love and connection are discussed.

Read more of Nikolas' thoughts - www.nikolasbadminton.com

APCS - http://www.communications-summit.asia/

Asia-Pacific Association of Communications Directors - www.apacd.com

Hyper Reality - https://vimeo.com/166807261

In this episode we see Nikolas at the Asia-Pacific Communications Summit talking about the birth of the internet, technoshamans, the predictions of Rushkoff and McKenna, how technology companies are controlling out psycho-social-physiological urges to create hyperconnectivity. Implied value and a return to the human condition of love and connection are discussed.

Read more of Nikolas' thoughts - www.nikolasbadminton.com

APCS - http://www.communications-summit.asia/

Asia-Pacific Association of Communications Directors - www.apacd.com

Hyper Reality - https://vimeo.com/166807261

In this episode Nikolas interviews Katie Metaverse, known by her Internet name “Miss Metaverse” (MM) is a New York based Futurist + Founder, BodAi, a New York based tech startup dedicated to bringing humanity’s dream of coexisting with humanoid robot companions to life through emerging technologies.

Apps, VR, and sex robots (Bods) are discussed in detail along with what robosexuality is, idollators, what considerations are needed, as well as ethical boundaries of this new field of technology.

References:

http://mybodai.com/

Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that provides keynote speeches about the future of work, the sharing economy, and how the world is evolving. Nikolas is based in Vancouver, BC, and speaks across Canada, USA, UK, Asia, and Europe. See more at www.nikolasbadminton.com

In this episode Nikolas interviews Katie Metaverse, known by her Internet name “Miss Metaverse” (MM) is a New York based Futurist + Founder, BodAi, a New York based tech startup dedicated to bringing humanity’s dream of coexisting with humanoid robot companions to life through emerging technologies.

Apps, VR, and sex robots (Bods) are discussed in detail along with what robosexuality is, idollators, what considerations are needed, as well as ethical boundaries of this new field of technology.

References:

http://mybodai.com/

Gustav Hoegan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iVJExd5vA

https://twitter.com/lillyinmoovator

https://twitter.com/Davecat

In this episode Nikolas interviews Keith Ippel who co-founded Spring to focus on early stage entrepreneurs with high growth potential who want to make the world a better place.

Nikolas and Keith talk about what makes an IMPACT entrepreneur, the modern startup, along with ethics, spirituality, and community in modern business. He also shares what StartUp City IMPACT, via a partnership with the Vancouver Economic Commission, is trying to achieve from June 6 to 11, 2016.

In April 2016 Keith and his team launched Spring University (SpringU), a comprehensive set of entrepreneur, incubator, and funding programs for aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs. It's the only global entrepreneurship program based in Vancouver (and Canada) - our programs run in over 30 cities on 5 continents, with over 140 entrepreneurs launching 110+ businesses and creating 70 jobs in Vancouver alone.

http://spring.is/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithippel

http://www.vancouvereconomic.com/startupcityimpact/

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