thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

We need to push human beings closer together to take advantage of electricity, so if you think about it, this might be part of the pushback against electricity across the board because it's anti indeed individualistic and tough. To be an individualistic hi Tracy lover when you need to be connected to a grid to get sufficient electricity to run your life because that's the life we're in if we ran out of electricity today. Only those with internal combustion engines would be able to provide electricity. Only those with individual energy sources would be able to provide electricity, so if you think about it, one of the things about electricity is that it's a more communal social thing. Maybe that's why there's so much pushback against it. Maybe that's why we need to think about some ways.

Darren is the Co-Founder & COO, of Hugo (www.hugo.team).

Originally from Sydney, Australia and now based in San Francisco, Darren co-founded Hugo following his shared frustration with costly, inefficient meetings that he experienced first-hand in a prior life as a corporate lawyer.

Today, Hugo is the leading meeting workflow solution, powering meetings for tens of thousands of customers. Backed by Google, Slack and leading VCs, Hugo is on a mission to connect the way we meet, to the way we work.

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No matter how much misinformation we are surrounded with, we need to never forget reality.

John Standish is a Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for Infinilytics, Inc., and is responsible for the development of Charlee advanced analytics solution for the insurance and health- care industries.

On your death bed, imagine yourself where you whether your home in your hospital or whether you're wherever you are, imagine yourself dying you're in your death that you're just about ready to go, and you're looking back on your life.   People want to talk about today. People want to talk about positive things. Nobody wants to talk about the future.

Is what you want more important than what everyone else wants?

David is the Co-Founder, and Lead Developer of Sia, which is a decentralized cloud storage network that ultimately allows its users to have more control over their data. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers. David has been active in Bitcoin and the larger cryptocurrency space since 2011. He studied computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and co-founded Sia parent company Nebulous in 2014 during his senior year of college. David is based in Boston where he also serves as the founder of Obelisk, an ASIC mining hardware company.

Not sure why we got so pessimistic about the future - things ARE getting better - and we need to make it so.

Have you decided how you will dent the universe yet?