Episodes
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...
March 10, 2021
The Future of Cars – What Will YOU Be Driving – or NOT – By 2025?
The Buzz 1: “You care more about that car than you do about most people.” [Thelma (Geena Davis) to Louise (Susan Sarandon) in Thelma & Louise (1991) The Buzz 2: “A driver don't pick the cars. Mmm-mm. Cars pick the driver. It'...
March 3, 2021
The Future of 4th Industrial Revolution: What’s In It For You?
The Buzz: “The Fourth Industrial Revolution…a fusion of advances in AI, robotics, IoT, 3D printing, genetic engineering, quantum computing, other technologies…collective force behind many products and services that are fast b...
Feb. 24, 2021
The Future of Women in the Military: Mental Toughness Required?
The Buzz 1: “During the Revolutionary War, women served the U.S. Army in traditional roles as nurses, seamstresses and cooks for troops in camp. Some courageous women served in combat either alongside their husbands or disgui...
Feb. 17, 2021
The Future of Women in Tech: How to Level The Playing Field?
The buzz 1: “Women earn about half of science and engineering degrees, but they make up less than 20 percent of people employed in those fields.” (mckinsey.com) The buzz 2: “Women are missing out on entrepreneurial success, m...
Feb. 10, 2021
Is Your Personal Brand Helping or Hurting Your Future Success?
The Buzz 1: “Social media can also be a powerful tool for your professional life…It can also be full of pitfalls. More employers and recruiters now regularly check candidates’ social media profiles before hiring them, and scr...
Feb. 3, 2021
The Future of Digital Literacy: Will CXOs Have to Talk Tech?
The buzz: In a 2017 ISACA survey, only 53% of surveyed business technology professionals believe their organization’s leadership is digitally literate. The other 47% don’t think their leaders have a solid understanding of tec...
Jan. 27, 2021
The Future of Now: 2021 Crystal Ball Predictions Special – Part 7
Buzz 1: “Time spent in conversation is never wasted.” [Insidious: Chapter 3] Buzz 2: “I had a really long talk with a squirrel one time, longer in fact than I can with most people.” [Charlie’s Angels] Buzz 3: “Do you always b...
Jan. 20, 2021
The Future of Now: 2021 Crystal Ball Predictions Special – Part 6
Buzz. 1: Robin to Batman: “In the circus, the Flying Graysons were a team. We had to trust each person to do their jobs.…Sometimes, counting on someone else is the only way you win.” Buzz 2: Fred Astaire: “For ballroom dancin...
Jan. 13, 2021
The Future of Now 2021 Crystal Ball Predictions – Part 5
Buzz. 1: “Oh, my goodness! Shut me down! Machines making machines. How perverse!” (C-P3O in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, 2002 space-opera film). Buzz 2: “Never send a human to do a machine’s job.” (Agent Smith ...
Jan. 6, 2021
The Future of Now: 2021 Crystal Ball Predictions Special – Part 4
Buzz 1: Doc Brown: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” (Back to the Future). Buzz 2: Mr. Spaceley: “Where's Jetson, and why is the plant shut down?” Rudy2: “It's the middle of the night, sir.” Mr. Spaceley: “Machi...
Dec. 16, 2020
Crystal Ball 2021 Predictions: Internet of Things & More Tech
The Buzz #1: Mr. Spaceley: “Where's Jetson, and why is the plant shut down?” Rudy 2: “It's the middle of the night, sir.” Mr. Spaceley: “Machines don't sleep. Start it up! Every second lost means money lost. And money lost me...
Dec. 9, 2020
The Future of Now: 2021 Crystal Ball Predictions Special – Part 2
“If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead!” (Gusteau, played by Brad Garrett in Ratatouille, 2007 computer-animated comedy film) “Your problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack th...
Dec. 2, 2020
The Future of Now: 2021 Crystal Ball Predictions Special – Part 1
The buzz: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” (Søren Kierkegaard,1813-1855, Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, author) If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see ...