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January 21, 2020 TFD9: Future proofing, digital transformation, and more ... what brands need to do in 2020
Why is technology so important for the next decade of business?
Why is every company a tech company?
And how are expectations changing over the next decade?
I talk about State Farm, NASCAR, Allbirds, and TikTok in an interview with Sean Moffit of FutureproofingNext.
17 min
January 16, 2020TFD8: Is TikTok digital crack cocaine? Speaking with Dr. Julie Albright, author of Left To Their Own Devices
Let’s start with TikTok. It gained over 500 million new users just last year. Why is it growing so quickly?

When you’re on TikTok -- and other, similar social platforms -- there’s an almost compulsive view and flick, view and flick as you scroll through bits of content. What’s happening in the brain while this is going on?

And … what does this do to people? Does it kill their attention span? Does it ruin them for anything requiring deep focus?

As a culture, we have a long history of crying wolf at the next new media platform, claiming it will ruin kids, ruin society, destroy education, kill the future workforce. Contextualize TikTok and other similar platforms for us within this history.

But are digital platforms fundamentally different than previous shifts?

How do you see people changing as we grow up with technology and media like this?

What are the good things that come out of this?
26 min
January 02, 2020TFD7: Is indoor air in your house killing you? Chatting with OneLife CEO Christoph Burkhardt
Intro to guest
Christoph Burkhardt is the CEO of OneLife

They’ve developed a revolutionary new air purifier that they’re releasing at CES 2020

We’re getting a sneak peek
What we talk about:
What are the worst problems with indoor air?

What percentage of people even know that they might have a problem?

There’s a lot of existing air purifiers out there … what’s wrong with them?

Replaceable air filters … one reason why people don’t buy purifiers?

Talk about OneLife … what makes your solution better?

PM1 … how small is that, really?
And … those are the most numerous particles, right?

Wireless? Battery?
20 min
December 31, 2019Top 100 apps of 2019: Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Google Pay, Wish, and more
We’re chatting with Apptopia’s VP of Insights Adam Blacker about the top 100 apps of 2019. Which made the cut … what surprised us … what this means for tech giants like Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and all the others in 2020 ...
Mobile app categories we hit:
Games

Social/messaging

Entertainment

Food & drink

Dating

Shopping

Music & audio

Health & fitness

Finance
Companies and apps we talk about:
WhatsApp

TikTok

Helo

Netflix

YouTube

Twitch

HBO

Disney

McDonalds

Uber

Tinder

Badoo

Wish!

AliExpress

Pinduoduo

Spotify

Apple

YouTube ... Google

Amazon

Samsung

Xiaomi

Sberbank
30 min
December 16, 2019Full self-driving cars within 3 years? Expert says yes ...
We’re talking about autonomous driving ... specifically … how soon we can expect self-driving cars? And what changes will they bring in our economy and our society?
My guest is Blair Lacorte, the president of AEye, a Silicon Valley company that “develops advanced vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles.”
He says: we’ll have self-driving cars within 3 years.
What we cover:
Many experts say that full self-driving is many years away. Some say we’ll never get there. Talk about how you think we’ll get there in 3 years.

You also say we’ll need to redefine what self-driving means … maybe redo the Levels of Automation. How so?

What’s unique about your technology? You have something you’ve call iDAR … what is it, and how does it work?

Who are you working with right now on this?

Elon Musk says we don’t need LIDAR. Agree?

How important is critical mass of instrumented cars and shared data to accelerate the AI that we need for self-driving cars?

Robotaxis … will we see fleets of personal cars roaming the roads as taxis? Other models?

There are those who say that autonomous cars -- and their development -- is unsafe. How do you respond?

Anything else?
38 min
December 04, 2019 iOS spellcheck's massive failure: a symptom of Apple's bad AI?
We talk to Robert Scoble about iOS spellcheck: is it really that bad (yes), why it's that bad (privacy?), and how this will impact Apple's competitiveness against Google and Android.
"80% said it got at least a little worse than before than two years ago"
"Swipe is a good new feature that comes with this system, but it's an immature system. It hasn't been trained very well."
"I had dinner with the guy who runs Siri at Apple. He said ... Google is beating us ... we see Google's learning at a faster rate."
26 min
November 27, 2019 Tesla Cybertruck: Automotive designer Fede Ponce on why he ordered
You either love Cybertruck or you hate it. Designer Fede Ponce has worked for Nissan and BMW. He's currently consulting with Mercedes, and won awards for his work on the Iron Man and Thor movies. He's worked on autonomous vehicles and heads-up displays. Hear why he's ordered a Tesla Cybertruck.
20 min
November 25, 2019Amazon's smart home VP on the future of smart home (and what he has in his smart house)
chat with Amazon VP of smart home Daniel Rausch about:
what’s in HIS smart home

what drives consumer adoption

why voice is better than phones for a smart phone hub

the growth of the Alexa universe

Amazon’s new “Certified for Humans” program, which lets you set up device by voice alone

Alexa’s new “Did You Mean” feature

Making smart homes … actually smart

Alexa Guard, which makes your home look like you’re home … even when you’re away

Privacy

Adding Alexa to anything

How Amazon grades itself on its progress with Alexa and Echo
37 min
November 19, 2019 Are we wasting billions on smart home tech?
Are we wasting billion on smart home technology? 70% of smart home tech that gets returned ... has nothing wrong with it. TechSee CEO Eiten Cohen surveyed smart home owners to find out what the biggest problems are ... and gives us the goods.
15 min