Episodes

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, song by Buffalo Springfield, 1966] The Buzz 3: “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” [Don Draper in Mad Men, 2007–2015 TV series] The Buzz 4: “Your problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change.” (Klaatu in The Day the Eart...

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 sleep. Start it up! Every second lost means money lost. And money lost means I scream a lot!” (Jetsons: The Movie, 1990 animated sci-fi comedy film) The Buzz 3: “Would that it were so simple.” (Hail, Caesar!, 2016 comedy film) The Buzz 4: “Inconceivable.” (The Princess Bride, 1...

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 guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.” [Marty McFly, Back To The Future, 1985 film] The Buzz 4: “Joe, nobody knows anything. We’ll take this leap and we’ll see. We’ll jump and we’ll see. That’s life!” [Patricia, Joe Versus the Volcano, 1...

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 never see what lies ahead!” [Gusteau, voiced by Brad Garrett in Ratatouille, 2007 computer-animated comedy film] The Buzz 3: “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” [Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, to her dog Toto, played by Terry, in The Wizard of Oz, 1939 Ameri...

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 guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it." – "This Is heavy!" If you're hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what 2023 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. Today, December 7, 2022, we're kicking off our ...

Technology Revolution: 2023 Crystal Ball Predictions Special #2

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 guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.” – “This Is heavy!” If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what 2023 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. Today, December 7, 2022, we’re kicking off our ...

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 smart garage doors, Asmart bed app, Dyson app, Wemo app, Nanoleaf, Govee Home app. [forbes.com] Buzz 2: Safewise surveyed 1,000 Americans 18 and older about tech spending habits. Between May 2021–May 2022, three in four bought a smart home device. 65% purchased cameras or loc...

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 Soviet Union, and Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks, at the University of Michigan, developed innovative laser programs that recorded objects in 3D on silver halide photographic emulsions. [iqsdirectory.com] The Buzz 2: Medical students are being taught using new “mixed-realit...

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 limited time with their kids, so they can feel guilty about dating.…You’ll know it’s too soon to date if you need to talk incessantly about your former wife in glowing or not-so-glowing terms. [menshealth.com] The Buzz 2: “If you got married pre-Tinder and other dating apps, ...

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 Federation. Returns have become a major headache in ecommerce, cutting into profit and straining resources. [www.digitalcommerce360.com] The Buzz 2: 37% of American households' financial situation is worse than last year. But consumers will cut non-essentials to give gifts and soci...

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 emerging future technology booms that will redefine the future and the world we live in – from https://unboxingstartups.com: *** Per Statista, 2,028 AI companies in 2018 were working in the US. The number of AI startups could reach 9,000 by the end of 2030. *** The growth rate of s...

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 drone adoption by individuals, commercial entities, and governments: Aerial photography for journalism and film; Express shipping and delivery; Gathering info or supplying essentials for disaster management; Geographic mapping of inaccessible terrain; Building safety inspections...

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 tech-driven world? The Buzz 2: Edge computing reduces the volumes of data to be moved and the distance that data needs to travel for quicker movement of data and a reduction in transmission costs. [theceomagazine.com] Now imagine your own connected home, car, and energy prov...

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 as necessity demands…Apple’s Home app, Google’s Nest, Google’s Home app, Airthinx air quality monitors, myQ smart garage doors, Dyson app, Wemo app, Nanoleaf, a Govee Home app. [forbes.com] Buzz 2: Managing smart home is hard. “You do need an ecosystem, fundamentally, becau...

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. The Buzz 2: “In the past, financial literacy has been pushed aside within K-12 schools. There has been a lack of agreement about how and what to teach.…Because financial education prepares students for the realities they’ll face in the real world and contributes directly to th...

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 roles, only 52 women per 100 men. Diversity is crucial to help de-bias the technologies in our modern life. [McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace 2021 report, coauthored with LeanIn.org] The Buzz 2: The label 'woman in tech' seems redundant…how many women would refer to themselve...

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 develop our creativity, and then use technology creatively to solve problems of the world.” [forbes.com/sites/annapowers] The Buzz 2: “When you think about old masters of art such as Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, you can clearly understand why their paintings are valued at a...

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 Year” for 2021 will surely be “NFT”. Non-fungible tokens—cryptocurrency chits which represent digital images or videos—have been around since 2014, but took off in popularity in March [2021] when Christie’s, a British auction house, sold an NFT of “Everydays—The First 5,000...

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 a purchase is more likely to take place when the buyer and seller happen to share things in common…sales practitioners began putting the science into practice and thus became the ‘social selling’ approach.” [Tony Restell, social-hire.com] The Buzz 2: “To stand out today, you...

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 James published the thriller Host on 2 floppy disks – the first electronic novel – and BiblioBooks launched a website to sell eBooks. Along came the 2gb Kindle, able to hold 1,100 books. Today, print books still make up 65+% of sales in the $113Bn annual book market. To be co...

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 in a test drive. Now online car sales are offering a new experience: click it, order it, pick it up, keep-or-return it – and the automotive industry mostly isn’t ready. The Buzz 1: Nearly 30% of U.S. new car sales in 2020 were completed online, compared to 2% of vehicles pre...

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 personal information is being used, collected or shared in our digital society.” [staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-week] The Buzz 3: “Digital freedom stops where that of users begins... Privacy is not for sale, it's a valuable asset to protect.” (Stephane Nappo, Société Générale ...

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 skilled and experienced but can’t get a promotion?” [huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com] The Buzz 2: “The label 'woman in tech' seems redundant these days – how many women would refer to themselves as ‘a female engineer’ or ‘the company’s female CTO’? However, there still ex...