thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Why don't we ever listen and implement any of the studies that we all agree are valid? Working from home has been proven to increase productivity and happiness, but we still force our people back to work. Our environment contributes to our thinking, but we still don't have organized environments for productivity and chaotic environments for creativity, and its proven that we need psychological safety within teams to take risks, but do we foster it?

Martin Walker is the VP of Digital Experience & Innovation for Sound Credit Union. He has led digital transformation efforts in the financial services, sports and entertainment, retail, and foodservice industries, helping marketing, product development, business development, and operations functions become digital, data-driven enterprises. He holds a BS in marketing and an MBA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-walker/

You need to be unhappy with the status quo in order to change things. Being reasonable is not connected to change and innovation.

We spend too much time in our little hyper-personalized bubbles - make it a habit to try to experience randomness outside your algorithms. Outside of your feed.  

Mentioned in this episode: 

http://gimmeserendipity.com 

http://forgotify.com

Chris Wexler is one of the Founders and CEO of Krunam, the best in the class image and video classifier of Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM).

Krunam is in the business of removing digital toxic waste from the internet using AI to identify CSAM and other indicative content to improve and speed content moderation.  Krunam’s technology is already in use by law enforcement and is now moving into the private sector.

Before founding Krunam, Chris established several leading digital MarTech and analytics practices at four different major ad agencies while working with brands such as Microsoft, Harley-Davidson, Chipotle, and General Mills. It was there that Chris has invested over $1B in digital ad spend for clients over his career.

https://krunam.co

Humans crave order. We have built a very orderly world. But what happens when the chaos pokes through? A Black Swan. We need to embrace the chaos to be creative and grow. 

Our hyper-personalized experience of the internet today won't help you come across new ideas or new discoveries that you can mashup with things that you already know. 

For the last several years Preston has been deep in the design, development, and bleeding edge of AR / VR / MR and immersive computing. He loves looking into the near & distant future to come up with practical ways to solve design problems for today and tomorrow.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-mccauley-immersive-ux/

To grow in life - to create new and innovative products - sometimes you must run towards the pain instead of away from it. 

If there is any indication of how far Silicon Valley has fallen among the pantheon of risk-takers, you just have to look at the timidity of the culture. Whatever happened to the rollicking, risk-taking culture of the earlier days - we are no longer interested in making a dent in the universe, we'd much rather sit at home, trembling in fear and having everything delivered.