Episodes
Nov. 10, 2021
The Future of Storytelling and Technology: Get Real!
The Buzz 1: “Even without the modern neurological research that proves storytelling is the best way to capture people’s attention, bake information into their memories, and forge close, personal bonds, humanity has always inh...
Nov. 3, 2021
The Future of Social Media Noise: Keep or Banish Hashtags?
The Buzz 1: “#Hashtags aren’t as cool as they once were…A Next Web study found that more than half of consumers don’t search for hashtags or use hashtags on their own content.… Spammers and bots are targeting popular hashtags...
Oct. 27, 2021
The Future of Entrepreneurship: Why Will Startups Keep Failing?
The Buzz 1: “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” (Dave Thomas, Wendy’s founder) The Buzz 2: “The best sta...
Oct. 20, 2021
The Future of Self-Driving Cars: Who/What Teaches Them to Drive?
The Buzz 1: The future promised by self-driving car companies — in which the streets would be filled with autonomous vehicles — has yet to arrive. In May 2021, The New York Times reported that the cars are still unable to man...
Oct. 13, 2021
The Future of Crime Novels: Must-See TV Adaptation Required?
The Buzz 1: “The book is better” – you hear often when it comes to adaptations of books for the screen…plenty of TV adaptations are as good as the books they’re based on, and some are even better…Book adaptations have become ...
Oct. 6, 2021
The Future of Drones: Landing on a Porch or Planet Near You Soon
The Buzz 1: Drones are now, literally, out of this world. NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover on Mars earlier this year, and it carried an important payload: the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity.… Similar to Electronic ...
Sept. 29, 2021
The Future of Women vs Men in STEM: Technology and Creativity
The Buzz 1: “In a study of 34 rhesus monkeys, males strongly preferred toys with wheels over plush toys, whereas females found plush toys likable. It would be tough to argue that the monkeys’ parents bought them sex-typed toy...
Sept. 22, 2021
The Future of Healthy Adult Beverages – Good Taste & Good For You
The Buzz 1: “Consumers today don’t just want their beverages to taste good and help them stay hydrated…Consumer interest in functional beverages over the last one year alone increased by a whopping 272%.” (spoonshot.com/blog ...
Sept. 15, 2021
The Future for Female Entrepreneurs – Lower or Raise the Bar?
The Buzz 1: “There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.” (Madam C.J. Walker (1867 –1919),...
Sept. 8, 2021
The Future of Cryptocurrency in Retail: Pay Now, Pay How?
The Buzz 1: “Since the creation of bitcoin, hundreds and hundreds of crypto assets are gradually finding their place in society…many companies are already accepting virtual currencies as a form of payment (KFC, Subway...). Ot...
Sept. 1, 2021
The Future of Music Education, Musicians and Technology
The Buzz 1: “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” (Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, 1920–1955, jazz saxophonist, band leader, composer) The Buzz 2: “Musici...
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...