thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

passion - skill and demand. you need all 3 to succeed.   support the show: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

River is a new content discovery & news platform - the culmination of a 2+ year project by Jeremy whose investors include Founders Fund, .406, Box Group, Josh Kushner, and Scooter Braun. Similar to observations that led Jeremy to first conceptualized the 24-hour video sharing format (which we know as Stories) in 2012, he realized the need for a platform to act as a native home for a wide breadth of content. River puts context at the forefront of a rapidly shifting news cycle, and triangulates between different perspectives, whether it’s on NYTimes.com, Twitter, or TikTok.  support the show: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

everyone keeps asking me "what is the ROI of innovation". this answers that question once and for all.   support the show: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

Many startup founders (or corporate innovators) have an issue with the concept of an MVP. The definition of a Minimum Viable Product varies greatly – but in the purest sense, it should be “the least you can do”  support the show: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

Choice is a community bank and forward-thinking in the technological sense so we blended that together in People First. We truly put people before banking. We have created an atmosphere of empowering employees to do things that go above and beyond what a typical banking experience would be. That is our focus

much of life is trudging through painful events to get to the other side. to get better at it - you need to find pleasure in pain.

there are many disconnects between reality and what we are being told about reality. do humans prefer the disconnect to reality?  

books mentioned in the show:  

Power: https://amzn.to/3g3V4Zt

Horse Sense: https://amzn.to/3d7ClKM

My company website: www. panogs.com 

The longest-running VR organization: www.ivrpa.org  

The Making of the One World Trade Center Panorama | TIME https://youtu.be/z3ZG1kZ0dsE

Capturing Everest VR for Time / Life and Sports Illustrated - https://vimeo.com/216101186 

Links for the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project:  Video overview: https://youtu.be/ubJgSMEyS-E

Yosemite Rock Fall Geological Survey Usage: https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/panoramic.htm 

Other things mentioned:  

Panogs 50-Year Space Needle Panocam & the Portland Tower Cam installation:  https://youtu.be/-rmvWVoYz1I 

Rememory - an application that records spatio-temporal data (time-series 3D capture data) https://rememory.jp/ 

Kandao Obsidian 360 6DOF footage seen in VR using the Pseudoscience 6DoF Viewer. https://youtu.be/Bo7uYEx9OhE 

Holographic Lightfield Display Products: LumePad https://www.leiainc.com/products/lume-pad/ 

Macropod Pro 3D to create PHOTOMACROGRAPHY https://macroscopicsolutions.com/product/the-macropod-pro-3d/ 

Holographic Lightfield Display Products: Looking Glass https://medium.com/through-the-looking-glass/introducing-looking-glass-portrait-your-first-personal-holographic-display-6c3b1fe4a05

sometimes you need to take your eyes off the ball to innovate

you may need to break (or bend) the rules to innovate in your space.