thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

As the Head of Innovation in Silicon Valley at North American Lighting (NAL), A Koito Group Company, Amit works with startups, Tier 1s, and OEMs to find partnerships/investments in adjacent and transformational areas that can contribute to vehicle safety through the evolution of lighting.  Prior to this, Amit lead the technical marketing department in Michigan for NAL.  Before joining NAL he held positions at Bosch Automotive and Power Tools and McDanel Advanced Ceramics. Amit has a BS in mechanical engineering and an MBA.  

Amit is the host of the podcast ‘Mobility Now!’ with 1500 subscribers and the founder of Sunnyvale Sensor Fusion Meetup which hosts monthly meetups and has over 1500 members.  

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Time to take back our individuality from the crowd.

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If you need to present your work, do you go first, last, or somewhere in the middle? As innovators, we need to tread new ground.   

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Unlike my futurist peers, I don't think we are anywhere near losing jobs to AI - sure in very narrow and specific tasks, AI might be able to do the trick, for everything else, we need human beings to step in and do the work.  

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Everyone is resigning because their employers are turning a blind eye to how much more their employees prefer remote work to commute work. Remote work is the future - commute work is the past. Remote work is SO much better for everyone's productivity, health, wellness, and sustainability, that no one should be surprised by the Great Resignation.   

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Brian R Johnson has helped over 20,000 brands sell over $1B on Amazon through ad strategy and conversion rate optimization. He offers guidance to, and partners with, brands & sellers through his online community, Amazon PPC Troubleshooting, as well as through coaching, software, training courses, and, his flagship advertising agency, CANOPY Management.  

http://www.canopymanagement.com/ 

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Internet search is broken. It's 99% crap. We need the original Yahoo! back - the hand-curated, hand-coded directory of only the good stuff - human selected only!  

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It is time to retire the individual and only focus on the collective? Have we finally evolved beyond homo sapiens (wise) to homo nexus (connected)?  

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Despite the dystopian futures which seem to be in style - we are the ones who can make these futures happen. Many of the horrible things we thought were going to happen never happened due to human ingenuity. We need to look at the future through the lens of the future. The future has always provided more unseen and unknown opportunities.  

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Innovators come from everywhere, but they all have the same challenges. Is innovation a thing - is it marketing? Is it cultural? Is innovation just lip service?

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