thinkfuture podcast

To innovate – you must absorb many different sources of information – especially in the areas not in the area you are trying to innovate in, let those percolate in your brain, then apply them to your current challenges. If you don’t fill up your funnel with new materials, (as in new experiences, new learning, new people, new places), then it becomes challenging to solve problems with new solutions. You need to be a funnel – to capture many different and disparate sources into your head –...

Wondering what SEO even means anymore? We peel back the layers of work needed to get the organic relevancy you've always wanted. In discussion with Damon Burton of SEONational, we cover meta keywords (not a thing anymore), loading speed, mobile friendliness, intuitive structure, relevant content creation, getting quality backlinks, newsjacking, what cadence of blog posting is ideal, length of posts, video, podcasts, and a number of tools to test your site and make it better - gtmetrix, wp...

We talk about the past and future of AI and all of the elements of it - from computer vision to machine learning to data science. We cover AI taking your job, how virtual assistants work (and don't work), some of the most exciting breakthroughs in AI (many of which have just occurred in the last few years, as we finally have the data and the processing power to make them happen). We wrap up with how to start getting into AI. Her book, The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: What You Must...

We talk about the past and future of AI and all of the elements of it - from computer vision to machine learning to data science. We cover AI taking your job, how virtual assistants work (and don't work), some of the most exciting breakthroughs in AI (many of which have just occurred in the last few years, as we finally have the data and the processing power to make them happen). We wrap up with how to start getting into AI. Her book, The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: What You Must...

We delve into deep data analysis, does it have the answer to every question? A while back I blogged about big data, and the possibility that with enough of it, we'd be able to answer every question. While this was a future vision, we may be there right now. Today, we have a great conversation with Rado Kotorov, a Technology Innovator and Leader and his new startup, Trendalyze. They do time series patterns discovery and analytics for IoT, transactional and event data, which may finally...

We chat with Bob Sager, author of 101 Freaking Brilliant Business Ideas: And Ten Ways YOU Can Create Your Own[...]

Today we feature a great wide-ranging interview with Coach Mya from coachmya.com[...]

Are you in it for the money, or are you in it to help people?[...]

Automation should take jobs that humans are no longer fit to do, so we can be free to do more human jobs[...]

Why is Elon Musk so interesting? He solves problems with solutions of the future - we need to invent new things before we can solve them.[...]

How can you tell if your innovation is real or fake?[...]

Ideas can never be right or wrong - everything is an experiment[...]

Even if the unknown is better, we still fear it, which is a normal human reaction we need to conquer[...]

When it comes to feedback to your inventors, saying nothing is worse than saying no.[...]

Its still too difficult to configure things - we need to figure out a new generation of true plug-and-play[...]

Your crowdsourced innovation program probably created too many ideas, so why not fund them all?[...]

As we go through life, we experience it. And as we experience it, we make decisions to take on things that we need to do, actions that we need to take. As the world floods over us, we filter and capture an infinitesimally small portion of it, then decide to act on it. Its simply too much.[...]

Why Chatbots Are More Important Than You Think[...]

Stern Robots are better than friendly robots if we want humans to just get stuff done - we need our robots to be more proactive[...]

Having your brainstorming sessions in the afternoon, will trigger more creative, out-of-the-box thinking.[...]