What if we already have the technology to solve some of the world’s hardest problems—and we’re simply failing to use it?

In this episode of FOBTV, I sit down with longtime technology pioneer, IDC Research Director, and author Rob Tiffany to discuss his bold new book, Saving the Earth with the Internet of Things. Rob has assembled 100 practical ways IoT can help address food loss, water scarcity, wildfires, deforestation, endangered species, education, and other global challenges.

We also explore the massive AI data center boom, rising pressure on energy and water, unexpected winners in the AI economy, and the second- and third-order consequences of today’s unprecedented infrastructure spending.

This is not a conversation about shiny technology. It is about action. The tools are increasingly available. The problems are visible. The question is: Who is actually going to do something?

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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In an era when many destinations are struggling with overtourism, ecological decline, and growing tensions between economic growth and environmental stewardship, this thought-provoking conversation explores a bold alternative: regenerative tourism. Journey to Finland’s extraordinary Archipelago Sea and discover how tourism can evolve from merely minimizing harm to actively restoring ecosystems, strengthening communities, and creating lasting value for future generations. This inspiring discussion offers a compelling vision of tourism as a force for healing—one that invites us to rethink our relationship with places, communities, nature, and each other. 

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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What happens when the old logic of an age can no longer hold? In this fascinating FOBtv conversation, futurists Frank Diana and Kevin Benedict explore why today’s turbulence may be more than disruption—it may be the signal of a civilizational transition already underway. Drawing from history, systems thinking, AI-enabled foresight, and Frank’s powerful new concepts of pressures, possibility chains, pathways, and decision spaces, this discussion helps leaders move beyond trend-watching and toward active rehearsal for the future. If you want to understand how forces across technology, society, economics, geopolitics, philosophy, science, and the environment are converging—and what leaders can do before the future defines them—this is a conversation worth watching and sharing.

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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#rise #robotics #futurist

#futureofbusiness #reimaginingthefuture #scienceandtechnology #digitalforces #societalfactors #emergingfuture #businessstrategy #AI #advancedlinguistics #covid19 #pandemic #postpandemicstrategy

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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Discover more from #FOBtv and connect with Kevin Benedict:

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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In this episode of FOBtv, I speak with SugarCRM CEO, David Roberts, to explore a profound shift already underway in business: the transformation of CRM systems from passive record-keepers into intelligent, decision-guiding partners. What happens when your CRM doesn’t just store what customers did and say—but actively shapes what you should do next? This conversation takes you inside that future, where AI collapses time between signal and action, where sales strategies evolve in real time, and where human judgment must work alongside machine intelligence. 

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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Most people think about AI when robots are mentioned, but a significant bottleneck to progress in robotics has always been the muscle. For a century, heavy industry has been shackled to leaky, inefficient, analog hydraulics—until now. Join me as I sit down with Hiten Sonpal, CEO of RISE Robotics, the company that just broke a Guinness World Record for the world’s strongest robotic arm. We’re discussing how their "Beltdraulic" technology is delivering a 90% efficiency leap, effectively "electrifying" the heavy-duty world and providing the digital precision that AI-driven machines need to operate autonomously. If you want to know how the physical world will actually be built in 2030, you cannot afford to miss this.

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frankdiana

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdiana/

#rise #robotics #futurist

#futureofbusiness #reimaginingthefuture #scienceandtechnology #digitalforces #societalfactors #emergingfuture #businessstrategy #AI #advancedlinguistics #covid19 #pandemic #postpandemicstrategy

For decades, we’ve used technology to manage hospitals; now, we are using it to redesign humanity’s relationship with health. Join futurist Kevin Benedict and Suhas Uliyar, former SVP at Oracle Health, for a deep dive into the tectonic shifts occurring at the intersection of AI, robotics, and clinical care. We aren't just talking about automation—we’re exploring the high-stakes reality of accountability in an AI-driven system and the "underestimated" developments that will fundamentally alter the patient experience over the next decade. From robotic surgery to the delicate balance of the human-machine division of labor, this episode of FOBtv is a masterclass on the forces shaping the future of life itself.

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdiana/

#healthcare #digitaltwindex #futurist

#futureofbusiness #reimaginingthefuture #scienceandtechnology #digitalforces #societalfactors #emergingfuture #businessstrategy #AI #advancedlinguistics #covid19 #pandemic #postpandemicstrategy

Discover more from #FOBtv and connect with Kevin Benedict:

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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#leadershipdevelopment #futureofbusiness #FOBtv

#futureofbusiness #reimaginingthefuture #scienceandtechnology #digitalforces #societalfactors #emergingfuture #businessstrategy #AI #advancedlinguistics #covid19 #pandemic #postpandemicstrategy

In this episode of FOBtv, Kevin Benedict sits down with Ved Sen, Head of Innovation for UK & Ireland at Tata Consultancy Services, to explore how artificial intelligence, automation, and intelligent systems are reshaping the future of healthcare. Their conversation moves beyond buzzwords to examine how AI could enhance clinician judgment, enable precision and personalized medicine, and support patients through continuous monitoring using wearables, sensors, and digital twins. They also discuss the emerging role of AI agents and robotics in care delivery, and the deeper systemic questions behind healthcare transformation—who benefits financially when automation succeeds, and how healthcare systems must evolve to fully realize these innovations. If medicine is shifting from episodic treatment to intelligent, always-on health systems, this discussion offers a glimpse into what that future may look like.

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About the Reimagining the Future Series | The Future of Business

The Reimagining the Future Series, produced by the Future of Business team, helps our clients and partners see the combinatorial effects of science, technology, digital forces, and societal factors that are rapidly shaping our emerging future. The series provides inspiration, strategic ideas, actionable thought leadership, and guidance to better understand the transformational journey and its implications to help business leaders reimagine and position their organizations for the future.

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BLOG: https://frankdiana.net/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frankdiana

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdiana/

#healthcare #digitaltwindex #futurist

#futureofbusiness #reimaginingthefuture #scienceandtechnology #digitalforces #societalfactors #emergingfuture #businessstrategy #AI #advancedlinguistics #covid19 #pandemic #postpandemicstrategy