Episodes
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. 30, 2020
Encore 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. 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 ...
Nov. 18, 2020
The Future of the Novel: Writers, Publishing and Technology
The buzz: “Today, anyone with a bit of technological know-how and an internet connection can publish—offering digital or physical editions, on the same online retail shelves—alongside Alexander Chee, Rebecca Makkai, or Tom Cl...
Nov. 11, 2020
Behind The Beat: The Future of Drums, Drummers & Music Technology
The buzz: “In its hundred-year history, the drumset has been adorned by temple blocks, timpani, and bass drumheads with nature scenes…introduction of the hi-hat, Rototoms, Octobans… bass drums with no front heads at all…entir...
Nov. 4, 2020
Back to School: The Future of The Entrepreneurial Mindset & Tech
The buzz: “In the unknowable future, all leaders will need to be entrepreneurs: visionaries that can imagine, adapt, and act nimbly to address whatever challenges come their way.” (Bhatia and Levina, hbr.org) With global busi...
Oct. 28, 2020
Your Great Idea: The Future of Inventors, Inventing and Technology
The Buzz 1: “The future holds unparalleled visions of progress and intrigue for the curious…where we manifest our hopes, dreams and even worst fears…While we've had our fair share of inventive breakthroughs in the past that h...
Oct. 21, 2020
The Future of Futurists, Futurology and Crystal Ball Technology
The buzz: Futurists are people who attempt to predict the future – authors, consultants, thinkers, organizational leaders and others who engage in interdisciplinary and systems thinking to advise private and public organizati...
Oct. 14, 2020
No More Tower of Babel: Multiculturalism, The Media & Technology
The buzz: “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” (President Jimmy Carter) But Canadian social psychologist John Berry...
Oct. 7, 2020
What’s So Funny?!? The Future of Humor and Technology
The buzz: “Over the centuries human beings have always loved to laugh. We can imagine jokes being shared by our cave dwelling ancestors about the two woolly mammoths. Today comedy is shared with vast audience by world-famous ...
Sept. 30, 2020
We’ll Drink To That: The Future of Women and Tech in the Wine Industry
The buzz: Although they comprise more 50% of the population, women hold far fewer positions in the wine industry, fewer leadership roles, and fewer ownership roles. Wine expert and The Wine Bible author Karen MacNeil’s Second...
Sept. 23, 2020
“It's All In Your Head: Technology for Remembering Your Dreams"
The buzz: “We’ve all been there — woken up from a night’s sleep thinking about a dream from the night before. Why did the dream happen? What does it mean? (Jean-Marc Emden, DreamsCloud. www.wired.com/insights/2014/10/dreaming...
Sept. 16, 2020
The Future of Women and Tech in the Automotive Industry
The buzz: Vrooomm. Today, women account for only 27% of the US auto manufacturing workforce as compared to about 47% of the overall labor force. This talent gap is counterproductive for companies looking to tap into the risin...