This episode carries on the thinking for what the endgame might look like for technology and organizations. There are seeds already planted that will certainly grow over the next 100 years and may look familiar but blossom in was we never expected. For example, what really will the impacts of AI be on organizations over the long run. Many of the ideas Scott delivers in this pod will be hotly debated for a while. In the long run, we will get to see how prescient he really is!
May 09, 2025•30 min
This podcast kicks off the next series about the Endgame of Digital Transformation. The next four podcasts will postulate what the future may look like when technology is “done” transforming four areas of our world. This podcast kicks off the predications with the impacts of technology on society in general. While no one, not even Scott, can predict the future with 100% accuracy, even being able to imagine the future with some degree of clarity is helpful for knowledge and decisions today. Liste...
Apr 25, 2025•33 min
There are many CEO’s and CIO’s who cringe the moment someone says the phrase “digital transformation.” Unfortunately, the concept was hijacked by consultants and advisors for a decade and became way overused before an appropriate definition could really get into the dictionary. It became a term synonymous with digitizing business processes. It is a perfect time to redo the common definition and broaden it to look at a fifty-year time in history that is transforming humanity. This podcast also se...
Oct 18, 2024•27 min
Maybe one of the more important podcasts in this series, the topic of Digital Wellbeing. A growing problem in the world is our many hours spent interfacing with digital tools, whether at work, or in our personal lives, and many time both. Scott provides an analogy between healthy eating and healthy digital being that you might find interesting!
Sep 20, 2024•33 min
This is one of Scott’s favorite topics! He has been studying and talking about transhumanism for over a decade and it is time to take this concept more mainstream so we can prepare for the outcome. Our technology tools are becoming more powerful each year and with the advent of powerful robotics and AI, we will soon (historically speaking) have the ability to power our lives and capabilities far past previous generations. At some point, we will no longer be Homo Sapien, we will be a new species ...
Aug 16, 2024•30 min
This is one of Scott’s favorite topics! He has been studying and talking about transhumanism for over a decade and it is time to take this concept more mainstream so we can prepare for the outcome. Our technology tools are becoming more powerful each year and with the advent of powerful robotics and AI, we will soon (historically speaking) have the ability to power our lives and capabilities far past previous generations. At some point, we will no longer be Homo Sapien, we will be a new species ...
Jul 19, 2024•26 min
Scott starts a new series that is all about finding better definitions for important words we use in the technology field. Too many times words are used that many people really do not understand. In other cases, the words we use are not good at really describing the concepts behind the words. In this first podcast of the series, Scott takes on artificial Intelligence and dramatically expands the words and meanings for different forms of intelligence. By the end, the listener will have a whole ne...
May 03, 2024•25 min
This is an interstitial podcast between two series. There is so much talk about whether AI is good or bad and those words do not do justice to the complexity of that debate. Scott looks at one important aspect by thinking through whether we might become negatively addicted to the use of AI or will AI free us from mundane tasks and free our creative capabilities – or both! The more accurately we can predict the impacts of AI, the better we can adjust how we use it for good. This is the first podc...
Apr 19, 2024•23 min
Like the story of the fish that do not have a sense that they live in the water because it always all around them, humanity is being impacted by the amplification of technology. For those of us living right in the middle of it, we have a sense that our lives are changing, but we don’t really have the comparative scale to understand how much or how fast. People who have lived for many decades can remember the way it was and compare to the way it is – for better or for worse. Younger people have l...
Mar 01, 2024•28 min
Like the story of the fish that do not have a sense that they live in the water because it always all around them, humanity is being impacted by the amplification of technology. For those of us living right in the middle of it, we have a sense that our lives are changing, but we don’t really have the comparative scale to understand how much or how fast. People who have lived for many decades can remember the way it was and compare to the way it is – for better or for worse. Younger people have l...
Feb 02, 2024•21 min
There are two central ways humans will amplify themselves. This podcast deals with the first which is physically improving our capabilities. We were all born with natural bodies. Some of these bodies had weaknesses from birth. Some of our bodies get damaged along the way. What happens when we can repair either of these states and create physical parity in the world? What happens when we can extend lifespan through the use of biotech, nanotech, and digital tech? We stand at the precipice of amazi...
Nov 17, 2023•26 min
Human beings are always looking for an edge or improvement. In a lot of ways, we are achievement junkies who never stop figuring out how to amplify our capabilities. A competitive world drives us from childhood to find ways to be better than those around us. It is no surprise that technologies are becoming a more powerful influence in getting us the advantages we seek. In this opening podcast of the series, Scott looks into what has driven us in the past and how those same catalysts will cause a...
Oct 20, 2023•27 min
What is the human mind in relationship to our brain? What is a machine mind going to look like? How do humans decide on their next best word or action and how does an LLM do the same? At what point might we believe that a machine mind is waking up? In this episode, Scott dives into the philosophy of mind by asking you the listener a handful of intriguing questions. Along the way you might come to believe that we overstate the sophistication of the human mind and under predict the possibility for...
Aug 11, 2023•29 min
In the final podcast in the Digital Philosophy series, Scott examines whether technology will ultimately help or hurt the human race. This requires us to understand the recipe of digital interaction we each have and see what the ingredients are that make up our own recipe. To help with that Scott reviews an interesting list of negative impacts of technology, then the opposite side with the positive impacts. Only by meditating on these lists and looking at the digital recipes we each create for o...
Jul 21, 2023•36 min
What if we stopped using humanity as the high bar we seek when building AI’s and robots? A philosophy to explore is the need to let go of the belief that building AI’s “as smart as us” is the right path. The reason we fear AI’s harming us is because we harm each other, and we can only imagine that technology will do the same. We can have a new philosophy that says we should build technology to be much more than us, then harness it to amplify the human race. This podcast will change the way you t...
May 17, 2023•30 min
Philosophy is thousands of years old and for all that time, it has been the study of finding truth in a world populated by humans as the only thinking entities. AI’s and synthetic intelligence are now changing the very definition of intelligences and consciousness. In this podcast Scott explores what he calls Neo-Philosophy and the need to answer important questions about the integration of human and synthetic intelligence. One such question is defining levels of consciousness and how technology...
Mar 17, 2023•25 min
Why digital philosophy and not digital science? Because science struggles to answer some questions that have lots of humanity baked into them. Because the meaning of words sometimes fail us with being consistent across peoples and science struggles when the words don’t have solid measurable meanings. Such it is with happiness and the meaning of life. These words are a state of being or set of choices we all make, and they are hard to measure. Were we happier thirty years ago? Did we have more of...
Mar 02, 2023•32 min
This podcast is an important concept that sets the foundation for the new series coming next – Digital Philosophy. Scott shares the concept that the generations alive today are struggling with a lack of context and story as to what we are trying to achieve as a country, or as a world. We have almost no agreement as to what the important outcome of our being alive together will mean. Without a compelling story to hang on to, we are floundering in a existential crisis. So, Scott offers a story we ...
Feb 17, 2023•27 min
Most everyone understands that a large amount of content on the Internet is not true. This is posted by people and organizations who have a specific reason to lie and mislead, or can be posted by people who simply state “facts” and make references to research that is simply not valid. We are not far from the ability to use AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning to begin scoring content as to the likely truthfulness it contains. Will there be bumps along the road of this quantification concept? Y...
Dec 04, 2022•24 min
Organizations are using more technology and data to measure job candidates and workers. This dynamic was kickstarted during the pandemic when workers were forced to work from home for an extended period of time and job interviews all became virtual. Now that we have moved back to a hybrid work environment, we have the gap between how workers feel about their productivity and what leaders are thinking. With AI, wearables, and automation on the rise, the ability to do real time surveillance on wor...
Nov 18, 2022•26 min
In a world where data and analytics are being applied in new ways, we explore the evolving “Trust Score”. The foundations have been laid with people judging the ability to trust someone based on their online presence, credit score, work history, school grades, etc. Will a Trust Score help the world be a safer place where people work hard to have a good Trust Score, or will this kind of measurement overly punish people for every mistake they ever made? Now is the time to think through the ramific...
Sep 19, 2022•29 min
Does everything need to be measured? The concept of technology driven quantification and measuring has far reaching impact and is not often discussed which makes it a perfect Digital Optimist topic. The capability for people, organizations, and products to be rated, to be quantified, to be measured, in very public ways is expanding. The door is now wide open as people have credit scores they never asked for, UBER drivers are rated, and social media has a currency of measurement all its own calle...
Aug 18, 2022•31 min
Adding machine intelligence to automation opens up a world of new possibilities. As we stand on the brink of replacing more parts of systems formerly done by humans, it is critical to examine the impacts on the world. This is the kind of podcast Scott loves to create and deliver!
Apr 17, 2022•32 min
Most people think of the office or their organization when they hear the topic of automation. However, there as much or more automation going on in our personal lives today. While automation at work helps organizations be more profitable and mechanize processes and systems, automation in our personal lives has very different impacts. In this podcast Scott paints a picture as to the current levels of personal automation we often take for granted, and the future view of the automation mesh that wi...
Feb 24, 2022•29 min
As a new wave of intelligent automation tools with levels get used in the workforce, we shift the Humalogy balance. Scott makes new observations as to the ideas and best practices people need to know in order to gain a tactical advantage with further automating the systems that drive organizations. In the larger picture, we are replacing large swaths of work formerly done by hand and the long term ramifications of trusting machines with doing the majority of work in an organization need to be di...
Feb 11, 2022•28 min
Let's focus on what we mean when we say "intelligent automation." We also dive into some general ways that it can help, and possibly setback, people and businesses.
Jan 22, 2022•35 min
How is the development of AI learning coming along? How is it helplful, and what will it look like in the future?
Jan 06, 2022•34 min
What makes someone a Digital Centaur? Being a highly evolved human being with many skills in the technology world. In this episode Scott discusses what makes someone a Centaur Leader vs a Centaur Citizen.
Nov 30, 2021•29 min
As technology evolves, so does the way we live. The Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping how our lives are lived and what devices are used for everything from cooking to monitoring your health. What does the future of smart sensors & devices look like? What are some examples of what they can do and how will they change our lives? Host Scott Klososky explores these questions and more in the latest installment of Digital Optimist's series on Machine Intelligence.
Sep 24, 2021•35 min
The machines are learning. The latest in predictive analytics is called real-time predictive analytics, which uses data from sensors to make predictions about the present and future of an event. In this episode, host Scott Klososky explains why this technology has huge implications for industries like transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing that rely heavily on forecasting as a part of their workflows today.
Aug 24, 2021•33 min
