https://thinkfuture.com | During my stint in sales, I realized that sales are broken. Very, very broken. And since then, it's become even more broken. We are bombarded with thousands of sales messages, billions of spam messages, and hundreds of thousands of auto-calling bots daily. But, unfortunately, in all of this clamor, useful messages are getting lost.  As an engineer, I thought there had to be a better way. There must be a way, I thought, to make this conversation more efficient. To programmatically create some engine that can create an optimal match between buyers and sellers – thus eliminating 99% of the junk on the internet – namely very poorly targeted sales messages.  Ultimately, we can figure out a way to create an optimal matching engine that can reduce the massive amounts of daily sales messages we are burdened with. Even a robust “demand engine” might help a lot. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

https://thinkfuture.com--- Announcing the Human Uplift Project's first publication: https://9rulesbook.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

https://thinkfuture.com--- Live streaming is merging with commerce creating live-commerce, an updated QVC/Home Shopping Channel environment over the internet with new interactive features. Gen ZAlpha is pioneering this kind of sustainable live stream shopping, but is it scalable? Maybe, if you have create synthetic spokespeople to pitch your products live. Question is: would prefer to buy from an AI or a human? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

An economist, data scientist and interdisciplinary researcher with over two decades of experience in academic, government, corporate and startup settings, based in Seattle USA and occasionally in New Delhi India. Also a former diplomat, management consultant, policy advisor, published author of 8 books and 250+ research papers, articles and Opeds in leading journals, magazines and newspapers, with thousands of citations and media coverage. Served Government of India at the rank of Joint Secretary, as the Lead Adviser and Head of Trade, Commerce, Strategic Economic Dialogue, International Cooperation and Vision India@2047, and currently as a Fellow. Also served as a senior advisor and consultant to many governments like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Cyprus, EU, USA, Canada, UK, Mongolia, etc., and international organizations like World Bank, UN, WHO, FAO etc. Worked with many leading academic organizations in a full time or affiliate faculty roles - such as Purdue, University of Washington Seattle, Oregon State University, Boston College, while also visiting many other universities like Harvard, MIT, University of British Columbia, LSE, IITs, IIMs etc., as a speaker or research collaborator. Also worked as a senior consultant with leading corporates such as McKinsey, PWC, KPMG, Aditya Birla Group, Google, Shriram Finance etc. Developed robust state-of-the-art analytical tools based on AI & economic modeling and strategic insights for positive policy advocacy and business strategy. Advised numerous startups in new technologies and other sectors. Established a new global analytics consulting firm Infisum with offices and clients across the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

https://thinkfuture.com --- To innovate, its helps to generate uncommon semantic juxtapositions, which can then trigger new thinking. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

https://thinkfuture.com--- When you are trying to make a decision, it usually comes down to two choices. This startup idea helps you to make that choice by letting the crowd help you to make that decision. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Try not to consume for a bit. See what happens. --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Are you too focused on your goals to enjoy your journey or see new opportunities --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Leesa is a seasoned innovator with more than 20 years’ experience in various Healthcare settings. She determines strategies to maximize revenue and organizational growth opportunities through creative problem solving. Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the complexities involved in determining product and process designs and how they drive risk and risk selection. https://www.linkedin.com/in/leesatori/ https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Microsoft just came out and said that AI being bad is our fault. I told you I was always right. --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Where are all the amazing innovative new smartphone designs? I just compared the Samsung Galaxy S23 and the iPhone 14 Pro and they have basically the same form factor. Where did innovation go in the smartphone space?  --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

You can’t beat kids when it comes to new, innovative, out-of-the-box thinking. I mean, not all kids, but those fearless try-anything-because-they-don’t-know not-to kinds of kids. I think you know the kinds of kids I’m thinking of: The ones that climbed up to the roof with their blankets to see if they use them as capes to fly The ones that would take electronic things apart and put them back together The ones that always asked: “why?” While most of the kids who think out of the box don’t understand where the box is – similar to having a beginner’s mind – there is one key difference between having a beginner’s mind and a “kid mind” – which is the unabashed playfulness. The willingness to just try something out, just for fun, to see what happens. It’s active, assertive, and open-minded. And of all of the tools in our arsenal of innovation, this one is probably the easiest to uncover. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

I am a designer and researcher working at the intersection of embodied sensing systems and emerging materials and their relationship to meaning-making. I have engineered novel solutions for soft-to-hard interfaces, pioneered applications and processes for a stack of smart polymer technologies, and developed award-winning wearable environments that explore intimacy, ambiguity and markers of aliveness in encounters with technological systems. I have collaborated and developed projects with Lubrizol, Nivea, Ralph Lauren, Bless, and with engineers, fashion designers, quantum physicists, weavers, molecular engineers, and philosophers. I consult C-suite executives on innovation methodologies, business opportunities in emerging technologies, and new product introduction roadmaps. I have been teaching at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program for the past 18 years, where I developed the course and upcoming book The Softness of Things: Technology in Space and Form and I am founding faculty at SVA’s MFA on Design for Social Innovation. I am currently working on The Unruliness of Matter, turning the conceptual and the abstract into the tangible and sensory, as part of my practice-based research Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art, on a TECHNE Fellowship from the National Productivity and Innovation Fund, UK. principled-design.com pixelpeppy.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Why do our devices have so little autonomy? They know so much about us but none of that information is used to autonomously lift our burdens, but to keep us hooked and show us more advertising.  --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Another Startup Monday, another idea from the past. Are you interested in the top stuff in any particular topic? Things go by too fast on Twitter and other social media, can we capture them and show people the top ones? --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Looking for white spaces to build product in? Try asking "why do we still..." --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Is learning to code still the big job saver? Not if ChatGPT can code for you, and low-code/no-code solutions seem to be taking over. Should people stay in the white collar space when AI takes those jobs? Middle-management and eventually senior-management will definitely be automated before workers. We will see blue-collar workers make more than CEOs. --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Diraj has experience across various fields such as automotive, embedded systems, industrial automation, fintech, blockchain, fraud, AML and supply chain management. Always seeking career and personal growth opportunities that enable me to polish my skills and make an impact in a fast-paced environment. Duke University Master of Engineering Management (2018) --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

The human race has a lot of issues: we can all agree that we'd like humans to be healthy, we just disagree on the path to health. Maybe the political divisiveness is not just a distraction, its holding us back from working together on solutions which work for everyone. We need to be apolitical.  --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Today's startup idea: connecting busy execs with no time and lots of money to college students with lots of time and no money.  --- https://thinkfuture.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Some experts predict that the "golden age" of streaming, during which customers have benefited from an almost limitless supply of ad-free content at a reasonable price, is coming to an end. They forecast that as studios try to balance their budgets, streaming will grow more expensive and more frequently interrupted by advertising, a trend that has already begun. Cost-cutting pressures may also result in a sharp decline in the number of shows that are released in a given year, leaving fewer opportunities for the production of ambitious ventures that have recently dazzled viewers. Consolidation, in the opinion of many industry analysts, is streaming's next significant step. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Want to engineer some serendipity? Randomize your life.  --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Robyn founded MileZero to combine the best theories and frameworks in the world with a relentlessly practical and collaborative approach so that my clients will quickly realize the potential of their businesses, get real results, and build the capabilities and confidence to continue innovating. Robyn and Chris discuss ChatGPT and AI, the effect of inflation/recession on innovation, the future, and much more.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Maybe we should all spend some time enjoying the journey instead of constantly focusing on the destination. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

What is truth? Is there any way to know if something is true or false? Since there is no way to see if something is 100% true, maybe we can let the crowd tell us if there is something true enough. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Looking for innovation - engineer some serendipity --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Looking for innovation? Look for the unusual. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Paul has over 15 years of experience leveraging design thinking, lean startup, and agile methodologies to create and build world-changing digitally-enabled experiences.  He was formerly the CEO and Head of Product Studio X, a global innovation studio accelerating the pace of energy innovation, where he launched and scaled products at the intersection data and geoscience.  His career spans the globe having worked extensively in North America, Europe, and APAC. During that time, he’s launched six startups and dozens of digital products ranging from a large-scale precision-growing SaaS platform to a startup leveraging computer vision to improve human safety and compliance in heavy industry and hundreds of physical products sold in the millions.  His passion for innovation and collaboration led him to also co-found and grow a volunteer network of human-centered innovation practitioners from zero to thousands of people at a Fortune 40 company, which led to a grassroots transformation of how the company operated and performed on a day-to-day basis.  Email: [email protected]  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulgenberg/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/madhero101  --- https://www.bcg.com/x https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Why do we focus on building any businesses which are win/lose? --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Every Monday, I'll profile one of many startup ideas I've had - if you are interested in pursuing these ideas, please let me know. --- BODY POSITIVITY SCALE: demotivated when you gain weight during a diet? This scale never shows weights above the initial weight.  --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We've now realized the recursive moment where we use AI to generate content for AI to present to humans. Instead of de-humanizing, we should re-humanize and co-humanize with AI. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Startup Monday: Looking for a new startup idea? Here is a real need: build a tool to help applicants escape the Applicant Tracking System "black hole." --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

CEO and Co-Founder by title, Sean is the mastermind and driving force behind Helios. From leading the strategic mission and business development, to rolling up his sleeves for the hands-on work of daily operations, Sean is invested in elevating the future of voice technology through tone. Over 15 years ago, when Sean heard about “brain scientist,” Dr. Schalk, at his alma mater of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, it was his vision to merge the charisma of a product visionary with the scientific mastery of a modern (bench-pressing) Wozniak. It all started at 19 years old when Sean founded his own audio biometric analysis company, advised by Dr. Schalk. Through his 20's, Sean meticulously paved the path towards Helios’ creation. He joined another audio startup that would be Spotify’s first acquisition, Tunigo, in 2013. At Spotify, Sean created the world's most influential streaming playlist with more than 30 million subscribers. After 3 years leading Spotify’s global audio team to dominance, Sean worked in product at Fueled where he led teams to build products for startups and multi-billion dollar enterprises alike - RiteAid's application being the largest. In search of harder tech and machine learning at-scale, Sean moved to Stockholm in a core ML product role with unicorn Klarna. Upon returning to New York Sean became Chief Product Officer at startup aptihealth. Since Day one, Sean led every piece of product and grew the company to over $100 million in enterprise value. The firm has raised more than $70 million to date in Series B, and more importantly, aptihealth has changed thousands of lives and revolutionized behavioral health. These transformative audio and big data product experiences paired with Sean's entrepreneurial drive have equipped him with the prowess to lead Helios into the future. With Sean at the helm, Helios is on a mission to unleash a new set of technologies that provide a more intimate connection between humans and machines. --- https://helioslife.enterprises https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Most social media networks go through a cycle:  it's founded  it grows into interesting places brimming with "tail" content  it's flooded with "head" content  the interesting tail content gets pushed out and down  it gets much less interesting  repeat with the next network  --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

I use a few tools to develop innovative new product ideas: humans like to be congruent, so drive them to attempt to be incongruent, and if an idea "upsets" you, it might just be a disruptive one. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Want to come up with innovative new products? Read/watch science fiction and backcast to today.  --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Charmaine Lacsina's mission is to accelerate the health and wealth of every city. Previously, she was an organization design consultant, Senior Program Director at Singularity University, Head of Product at Startup Health, and Global Operations & Program Lead at General Assembly.  Charmaine is passionate about creating systems that provide economic freedom and access to generational wealth for communities. She has a background in technology/startups, organization design, real estate, and non-profits working with high-growth technology companies and Fortune 500 organizations. She's been part of the NFT world since September 2020 and is passionate about collective ownership's power in helping launch new Web3 member-owned communities. Twitter: https://twitter.com/bemyneighbornft Whitepaper: https://neighbor.gitbook.io/bemyneighbor/ Website: https://www.bemyneighbor.io/ https://opendoorlegal.org/ Where people can learn Web3: https://tapx.link/thehugxyz https://curiousaddys.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Why wouldn't anyone want to live forever? I say let's at least try to figure it out.  --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

New Product Development: We need innovation in the power and sustainability spaces. Not only are power solutions not there yet, but we've now created more stuff than the Earth weighs. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Follow your own path. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Start at the end, and work your way back. If I read about a subdermal implant inserted at birth that listened to your thoughts and whenever any question popped into your head, it was immediately answered in your head by orbiting AIs which had every answer to every question ready for you and worked backward, I might have invented Google and/or Quora before they were born. --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Gam Dias is a partner at UK-based Digital Transformation consultancy 3PointsDIGITAL, where he helps organizations understand and leverage data as a corporate asset. He teaches Data Strategy at IE Business School in Madrid and previously co-founded the e-commerce consultancy First Retail in Silicon Valley. He began his career in the UK as a Management Information Systems developer, he went on to become a product manager for BI and Analytics vendor Hyperion, and he managed the product and research team for a text analytics startup. As a consultant, he has helped write the data strategy for Fortune Global 500 companies, innovative startups, and ambitious non-profits. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool and an MBA from Warwick Business School. Gam has lived in London, Leeds, Salt Lake City, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, and he currently lives in and works in Madrid, Spain. https://amzn.to/3vz9nvQ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Instead of individual resolutions, why not try a theme for the year?  --- https://ipluse.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Pretty soon, every film will be devoid of real actors.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

A Tesla truck just went 500 miles. Big Deal. Electric vehicles are a transitional technology like fax machine. There are better ways to move a human and stuff from point A to point B. https://ideateandexecute.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Everything you carry, from your phone, car keys, and computer, is vulnerable to leaking information. SLNT® is a patented product line of everyday carry accessories that give you much-needed privacy and security. www.slnt.com @goslnt (Instagram) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Web3, Crypto, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Etherium - still not ready for prime time, and if you think about it, cryptocurrency isn't really that much more "real" than fiat currency. --- https://ideateandexecute.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Don't worry, folks, the future of AI vs. AI content marketing creation will be here sooner than you think. Wouldn't it be great if we wrote content for people's eyes and not for search engines, this is the world we live in. --- https://ideateandexecute.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support