Episodes
Aug. 25, 2021
The Future of Tech Startups: When Is THE Right Time?
The Buzz 1: “We can fly! we can fly! we can fly!…All it takes is faith and trust. Oh, and something I forgot. Dust! Dust? Yep. Just a little bit of pixie dust.” (“You can fly” song, Peter Pan, 1953 American animated adventure...
Aug. 18, 2021
The Future of Professional Women & Creativity: Impossible Dream?
The Buzz 1: “The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” [Albert Einstein] The Buzz 2: “At first glance, the words “science” and “creativity” might not seem like natural companions.…. But…the greatest scientific disc...
Aug. 11, 2021
The Future of Digital Security: Will Zero Trust Keep Us Safe?
The Buzz 1: “All it takes is faith and trust. Oh, and something I forgot. Dust! Dust? Yep. Just a little bit of pixie dust.” (Peter Pan played by Bobby Driscoll, 1953 film song You Can Fly!) The Buzz 2: “It's all right. I und...
Aug. 4, 2021
The Future of Self-Publishing: A Real Page-Turner – Part 2
The Buzz 1: “Self-publishing is an ever-changing industry and big changes can come seemingly out of nowhere…Trend #2: More indie authors will collaborate or consolidate in collectives. Trend #3: Authors will benefit from comp...
July 28, 2021
The Future of Email Marketing: Will You Open It?
The Buzz 1: “A lot of folks believe that email is dead. With the increased use of chatbots, social media platforms, etc., the assumption is that email's place has been overtaken. However, this assertion, and the assumption it...
July 21, 2021
The Future of Women in STEM: What About Their Creativity?
The Buzz 1: “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. (Albert Einstein, 1923; news.mic...
July 14, 2021
The Future of The Cloud: What Has It Done for YOU Lately?
The Buzz 1: “Hey, you, Get Off Of My Cloud” (The Rolling Stones). “Clouds in My Coffee” (You’re So Vain lyrics, Carly Simon). “I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusio...
July 7, 2021
The Future of Wineries and Technology: The Move to Crowd-Sourced
The Buzz 1: “Virtual vintners have a say on grape varieties, barrels and bottling. Crowd-sourcing has become the Internet’s new favorite method of financing start-ups, authors and researchers. Now two wineries have adopted th...
June 30, 2021
The Future of Encouragement: Letter-Writing + Clubhouse
The Buzz 1: “There is a charm to letters and cards that emails and smses can’t ever replicate, you cannot inhale them, drawing the fragrance of the place they have been mailed from, the feel of paper in your hand bearing the ...
June 23, 2021
The Future of Fashion Tech: Dressing The Industry for Success
The Buzz 1: “Fashion’s future hinges on digital tools that combine the physical and digital while adapting to customer needs, including 3D design, on-demand manufacturing and video shopping.” (www.voguebusiness.com/technology...
June 16, 2021
The Future of Video: How Many Words Will A Pic Be Worth? Part 2
During 2020 when COVID locked down the world, video was the “king” of media types. Consumption went mobile, as Americans spent almost twice as much time viewing digital video on their phones as on their computers. After the T...
June 9, 2021
The Future of Beer, CBD Beverages, Hard Seltzer & Tech: Drink Up!
The Buzz 1: “The alcoholic beverage industry is not known for being stagnant. Significant changes and surprising trends emerge every year…The best-selling cocktail of 2019 was the Old Fashioned. Sake is no longer just popular...
June 2, 2021
The Future of Women Thriller Novelists: Who Dunnit?
The Buzz 1: “Nobody brings the creepy better than women mystery and thriller writers. The literary world has always been a bit of a good ol' boys club, but since Anna Katharine Green, ‘the mother of the detective novel,’ publ...
May 26, 2021
The Future of Entrepreneurship and Technology: The Right Time?
The Buzz: “The word entrepreneurship has been defined as the 'discovery, evaluation and exploitation of opportunities' but until just a few years ago, saying you were a young entrepreneur was a creative way to say you were in...
May 19, 2021
The Future of Active Transportation and The Biking Boom
The Buzz 1: “Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle. I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle... I want to ride it where I like.” (Queen, Bicycle Race) The Buzz 2: “When my legs hurt, I say: ‘Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!’” (...
May 12, 2021
The Future of Self-Publishing: A Real Page-Turner
The buzz: “Ten years ago, e-books made up less than 1 percent of the trade book market, yet they now make up 40 to 50 percent of units sold…In genres like fantasy, romance, and science fiction, traditional publishers have los...
May 5, 2021
The Future of Stress: Use It or Lose It?
The buzz: Stress has been defined as a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances – or as the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change. In her veryw...
April 28, 2021
The Future of Social Engineering: The Good Human Hacker – Part 2
The buzz: “Most people think of hackers as young techno-thugs who pound Moutain Dew and tap at their computers stealing data, crashing websites, or sending spam about Viagra. But there are good hackers, too, top-security prof...
April 21, 2021
The Future of Video: How Many Words Will A Picture Be Worth?
The Buzz: During 2020, video was the “king” of media types. Americans were Zooming into work meetings, logging into online classrooms, FaceTiming friends and family, and streaming entertainment more than ever. Binge-watching ...
April 14, 2021
The Future of Learning: Tech-Enhanced Education
The Buzz: In 2013, Terry Heick wrote, “While learning by no means requires technology, to design learning without technology is an exercise in spite—proving a point at the cost of potential. And it’s difficult to forget how n...
April 7, 2021
The Future of Wine and Technology: Drink Up!
The Buzz: According to FutureWineExpo.com, “Just a decade from now, the wine industry is likely to look a lot different than it does now. A number of important factors – including the rise of China as the next great wine nati...
March 31, 2021
The Future of Mystery Writers: Can They Keep Thrilling Us?
The Buzz: The first modern ‘detective story’ is considered to be The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe. First published in the April 1841 issue of Graham’s Magazine, the short story is about an amateur detective wh...
March 24, 2021
The Future of Social Engineering: You As The Good Human Hacker!
Throughout recorded human history, people have figured out how to use the latest “technology” to scam, con or hack others for their own benefit. William Chaloner (1650–1699): Serial counterfeiter and confidence trickster prov...
March 17, 2021
The Future of Dining: Restaurants, Menus, Takeout, Delivery & AI
The Buzz 1: “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone.” (Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell, 1970) The Buzz 2: “I would be proud to partake of your pecan pie.” (Harry Burns (Billy Crystal), Wh...