Featuring Special Guest: David Staley, Historian, Futurist and multi-book author. David is currently Associate Professor at Ohio State University, and a leading authority on digital history and future impacts of A.I. This fascinating conversation takes us through some surprisingly reassuring, and some less than reassuring scenarios for retail, society and civilization as we know it. David was awarded Best Freelance Writer for his "Next" futures column, and has authored several highly worthwhile reads, including "Visionary Histories", "Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets", "Historical Imagination", "Brain, Mind and Internet" A Deep History and Future", "Computers, Visualization and History" and "History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future".