Episodes
Jan. 25, 2023
Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #6
The Buzz 1: “If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead!” [Gusteau in Ratatouille, 2007 film] The Buzz 2: “There's something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” [What It’s Worth, son...
Jan. 18, 2023
Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #5
The Buzz 1: “Anything you want to find you type it in.” “I lost a really nice silk scarf in about 1912.” “Yes, now Google it.” (What We Do In The Shadows, 2014 mockumentary fantasy horror film) The Buzz 2: “Machines don’t sle...
Jan. 11, 2023
Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #4
The Buzz 1: “Fasten your seatbelt. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” [Margo Channing, All About Eve, 1950 film] The Buzz 2: “Do, or do not. There is no try.” [Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980 film] The Buzz 3: “I...
Jan. 4, 2023
Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #3
The Buzz 1: “There's something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” [What It’s Worth, song by Stephen Stills, performed by Buffalo Springfield, 1966] The Buzz 2: “If you focus on what you left behind, you will nev...
Dec. 21, 2022
Encore Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #1
The Buzz: Favorite quotes from Back to the Future, 1985–1990 American science fiction film movie trilogy – "Nobody calls me chicken." – "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." – "1.21 Gigawatts!?!" – "I guess you guy...
Dec. 14, 2022
Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #2
Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #2
Dec. 7, 2022
Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #1
The Buzz: Favorite quotes from Back to the Future, 1985–1990 American science fiction film movie trilogy – “Nobody calls me chicken.” – “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” – “1.21 Gigawatts!?!” – “I guess you guy...
Nov. 30, 2022
The Future of Consumer Smart Home Tech Buying in 2022 and Beyond
Buzz 1: Smart home is a massive market, growing at 25.3% per year [Mordor Intelligence], expected to hit $314Bn a year by 2026.… Apple’s Home app, Google’s Nest, Google’s Home app, Airthinx for air quality monitors, myQ for s...
Nov. 16, 2022
The Future of Holograms in Business: Better to See You, My Dear?
The Buzz 1: Holography is a photographic technique that records the light scattered from an object, and then presents it as three-dimensional. The development of hologram technology began in 1962, when Yuri Denisyuk, of the S...
Nov. 9, 2022
The Future of Single Dads & Technology: Back Into the Dating Pool
The Buzz 1: Raising kids is tough enough. Add the prospect of dating to the equation, and you’ve got quite a challenge. But regardless how your circumstance arose, you deserve to date… Divorced dads are usually dealing with l...
Nov. 2, 2022
The Future of Retail & Technology: How Many Happy Returns? Part 2
I LIKE IT. NO I HATE IT. IT FITS, NO IT DOESN’T FIT. I’M RETURNING IT! The Buzz 1: Retailers expect 17.8% or $158Bn of merchandise sold during the 2022 holiday season will be returned, according to the National Retail Federat...
Oct. 26, 2022
Our Cyber Future In 2030: Will The Livin’ Be Easy? – Part 2
Looking ahead to 2030: How will we work? How will we travel? What will we eat? How will we dress? Will we have ANY privacy? Will we all be space travelers? What old and new challenges will we face? The Buzz: The top 7 emergin...
Oct. 19, 2022
The Future of Drones: Landing Near You Soon? – Part 4
The Buzz 1: Drones have been around for more than two decades, but their roots date back to World War I when the U.S. and France worked on developing automatic, unmanned airplanes…The last few years have seen significant dron...
Oct. 12, 2022
The Future of IoT and Edge Computing: What’s In It For YOU?
The Buzz 1: Dozens of song titles have “Edge” in the title, including: Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen, Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks, and Living on the Edge by Aerosmith. But what does EDGE mean in our ...
Oct. 5, 2022
The Future of Smart Homes & Sustainability: Intelligent Ecosystem
Buzz 1: For some, a ‘smart house’ is chock-full of gadgets that automate or monitor almost every conceivable part of a house. For others, a smart house is extreme simplicity with only the slightest of technological intrusions...
Sept. 28, 2022
The Future of Financial Literacy: Can We Raise Kids’ ‘Money IQ'?
The Buzz 1: “Reading and ‘riting and ‘rithmetic – taught to the tune of the hick’ry stick.” School Days, song written in 1907 by Will D. Cobb and Gus Edwards, is about a couple looking back sentimentally on primary school. Th...
Sept. 21, 2022
The Future of Women in Tech Careers: Should I Stay or Go?
The Buzz 1: Women in technical roles are less likely than men to win promotions early in their careers, and many are exiting the field. Only 86 women are promoted to manager for every 100 men at the same level…in technical ro...
Sept. 14, 2022
The Future of Creativity: Is Technology Helping or Hindering?
The Buzz 1: “What will be the most coveted skill of the future?…Creativity…A computer lacks imagination or creativity to dream up a vision for the future.…the emotional competence a human being has… We must embrace and develo...
Sept. 7, 2022
The Future of Your Digital Identity: All About The NFTs?
The Buzz 1: “NFTs are not just for digital art—and their popularity is growing. Now The Economist is experimenting with an NFT, to raise money for a good cause. – One candidate for the Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the...
Aug. 31, 2022
The Future of Business Social Selling: Crickets or Ca-Ching?
The Buzz 1: “The science of social selling actually originated from academia. In a 2009 paper…'The Persuasive Role of Incidental Similarity on Attitudes and Purchase Intentions in a Sales Context,' researchers concluded that ...
Aug. 24, 2022
The Future of Publishing and Technology: Read All About It!
The Buzz 1: In 1440 – 600 years after The Diamond Sutra, the world’s oldest printed book – Gutenberg invented the wooden mass-printing press. In 1845 Richard Hoe invented the rotary press and first paperback. In 1993, Peter J...
Aug. 17, 2022
The Future of Automotive Retail & Tech: How Will YOU Buy A Car?
The in-person experience of car buying has always been alluring, letting you inhale the new car scent, examine the shiny power under the hood, literally kick the tires, ask questions of a human salesperson, and feel the road ...
Aug. 10, 2022
Data Data Everywhere: Is Data Privacy In Your Future? – Part 2
The Buzz 1: “Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.” [Margaret Cho, comedian] The Buzz 2: “Millions of people are unaware of and uninformed about how their pers...
Aug. 3, 2022
The Future of Women in Tech: Time to Smash the Glass Ceiling?
The Buzz 1: “There is such a thing as a glass ceiling…the invisible barrier which prevents women from advancement in their profession. Do we have an unacknowledged barrier that is an obstacle for women in Tech who are indeed ...