The Next Wave Podcast

Co-host Dean Nelson is back this week as we tackle the GameStop debacle. Meanwhile, Google threatens to shutdown search in Australia if it passes legislation requiring it to share revenue with media companies, and Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon's CEO. 

We're back after our end of year hiatus! Special guest host Krish Subramanian joins us this week to talk about big tech censorship. 

The industry is heating up after the election and we're discussing what a Biden administration means for the Clean Network Initiative, China, 5G, and more. Plus, AI discovers a novel therapy for COVID, and we say goodbye to the famed Arecibo radio telescope. 

Our guest this week is Joe Weinman. Joe is Weinman holds decades of leadership experience in networking, cloud, datacenters, interconnection, and IT, including R&D, product management, corporate strategy, marketing and sales, business development, and operations. He is a global keynote speaker and author, board member, and inventor with 26 issued patents in cloud computing, networking, and related technologies. Perhaps best known for his seminal Cloudonomics, he is also the author of books on digital strategy and fog computing, and was the contributing editor of the Cloud Economics column for IEEE Cloud Computing magazine.

This week we’re joined by Dr. Julie Albright, who is the author of a fascinating book “Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives are Reshaping the American Dream”, which made Bloomberg’s Best 30 Books of 2019 list. 

Dr. Albright is a renowned digital sociologist, a faculty member in the Departments of Applied Psychology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (where she also has a Masters and Ph.D. in counseling), a Board Member of Infrastructure Masons alongside our own Dean Nelson.

She’s a sought after keynote speaker, having given talks for both C-level executives and professional audiences for TedX Talks, Google, SAP, IBM Global, CS Week, the American Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Dept. of Defense, and iMasons.

She has also appeared as an expert on many national television programs including the Today Show, CNN, NBC Nightly News, National Geographic, CBS, Dr. Phil and many others. She has also been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Time Magazine and Newsweek, and others.

Strange times continue in 2020 as Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink on a pig, a man wearing a jetpack disrupts air traffic at LAX, and WalMart is rumored to be bidding for TikTok in a joint venture with Microsoft. 

Trump's unprecedented ban of TikTok, WeChat, and the administration's Clean Network Initiative promise to wreak havoc across the entire industry and supply chain. 

Our guest this week is Michael Hiles, co-host of the Digital Dollar Podcast and Founder and CEO of 10XTS. He brings us up to speed on digital currencies and the future of cental banking with crypto. 

Our guest this week is Ali Fenn, President of ITRenew, a company that is pioneering circular economic models for IT and datacenter hardware. ITRenew transforms used servers, networking, and storage back into new gear, redefining the lifetime value for data center hardware and minimizing environmental impact. 

Section 230, a law that protects online services from lawsuits based on user-created content, is under bipartisan attack. We discuss how Section 230 came to be, how Big Tech is abusing it, and what it might mean for the future of the Internet.