thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Dr. Owen Muir co-founded Brooklyn Minds with the understanding that help needs to be understood as helpful. In addition to serving as Medical Director, Dr. Muir oversees our groundbreaking deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) program.

Dr. Muir’s work is novel in a number of ways. Not only is he one of the 5 official supervisors in North America for Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for adults, but he has additional training in using MBT strategies with adolescents, families, and even teams and systems, and is co-editor of the Springer book "Adolescent Suicide and Self Injury: a Mentalization-Based Treatment Approach.” ​As Chief Innovation Officer, Dr. Muir has secured Brooklyn Minds' position as the only site in America offering full, on-model MBT services for adolescents in an outpatient setting. He is proud to have made Brooklyn Minds one of the largest outpatient MBT practices for adults, children, and families in the country.

Dr. Muir specializes in the treatment of a wide variety of personality and mood disorders and prides himself on taking a holistic view with his patients. He works tirelessly to build strong relationships rooted in trust with all his clients to best support them in reaching their mental health goals and making sure all his clients feel knowledgeable about the treatment options available to them. Feeling at ease with a psychiatrist is not something that comes naturally for most people. Dr. Muir utilizes humor and empathy to help open doors for people to feel more comfortable. He is interactive and asks a lot of questions to ensure that he is getting the clearest picture possible of what is going on for the people he is working with.

Currently, Dr. Muir is also working on two podcasts: Remotely Possible, which looks at anxiety and despair through a mental health lens, and Pandemic Check-In, which takes a look at mental health during COVID-19. When not working with clients or on his podcasts, Dr. Muir enjoys revisiting his former career as a recording engineer at Sony Music Studios. He can be found playing guitar, writing original music, and recording any sound he can find that might be useful.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-muir-md-53345b7/

for XR to be successful it needs two things a) it needs to bypass our senses and get plugged right into our brain and b) it needs to stop emulating real life and start being BETTER than real life.

media is now subtle as a hammer - have we lost the ability to be subtle and intuit things - or if everyone has a hammer have we all turned into nails? we should all try to make our audiences THINK, it's what humans are best at after all.

Donnell Layne is a leading-edge technology executive committed to the creation of sustainable, efficient, service-orientated innovation environments. He previously served with the Noble Network of Charter Schools, Chicago’s largest charter school network, directing all IT operations to meet customer requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing infrastructure, applications, and development of new technical solutions. He also has the pleasure to be the Co-founder/Chief Operations Officer for Bridging The Gap, inc, a non-profit organization, and the Krimson Technology Group, LLC. He has been working in the computer and telecommunications field for over a decade. During this time he has held numerous leadership positions working as a senior technical project manager, teacher, trainer, technical writer, and consultant.

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

when we lived in small villages we could easily demonstrate trust - its much more difficult now - but we can still do it - we have the technology

do you know why you should ignore past successes? because they occurred in a completely different reality from the here and now.

Dr. Shannon Clute is Director of The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation.  His career has been evenly divided between academia and industry, and in both sectors he has created education-enterprise partnerships that aim to improve the learning outcomes and lives of target audiences.  Working at the crossroads of innovation, brand strategy, media and instructional design, he has launched numerous scalable edutainment initiatives that drive broad engagement while serving a greater good.

are we leaning into the collective?

we need to create, not consume

Optimizing Adoption of Technology. Tech is innovating rapidly and here to stay. 50 percent of IT projects fail for different reasons. We discuss a few of these and how to overcome the barriers. Technology should support a program/not dictate and provide value.