thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Tessa Finlev is Dolby Laboratories’ first-ever internal Foresight Strategist. Her primary focus is on designing collaborative processes for uncovering emerging futures and connecting the dots to strategy, innovation, and company culture. In her decade-plus in the foresight field, Tessa has traveled the world teaching, presenting, and researching possible futures for a wide range of audiences.

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

You wouldn't think that Seth Rogan's An American Pickle is a great startup story movie in addition to being a very funny movie, but it teaches some great lessons on entrepreneurship.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Pickle

We've spent too much time with an education system that is far behind the times - now is the time to disrupt the education system.

We cannot allow ourselves to be weak against the challenges all around us. We must conquer the fear to meet the challenge of uplifting the entire human race. 

Will you sell a product you don't believe in?

Wade Martin, PhD is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at California State University, Long Beach. He works primarily in the area of risk analysis related to business development and sustainability for local economic development. He has worked on projects for Downtown Long Beach Alliance, CalRECYLES, the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the USDA Forest Service, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Government of Indonesia and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Institute for International Development. His area of expertise is applied microeconomics with a specialization in environmental and natural resource economics. He uses these tools to support entrepreneurs and small businesses to support local economic development from the ground up. The Institute welcomes everyone but does have a focus on women and entrepreneurs-of-color for the diverse community that is Long Beach and uses a sustainability model to guide business decision-making!

What if you have the most amazing idea which will improve the human race but n o one will pay for it?

We constantly use negative options to prey on our customer's innate human laziness. Are we not better served by serving our customers and giving them better options? We have all the data and intelligence - why can't we use that to improve their lives in addition to maintaining profitability?

do you comply, then change the law, or the opposite?

http://hellofuture.co

Innovation is the furthest thing from most "innovation"  http://hellofuture.co