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thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

chris kalaboukisthinkfuture.com
Welcome to thinkfuture, where host Chris Kalaboukis explores the bold ideas shaping tomorrow. From AI-driven creativity and personal growth to leadership in remote work, this podcast delves into the intersection of innovation, technology, and human connection. With visionary guests and thought-provoking conversations, thinkfuture helps listeners unlock new possibilities, challenge the status quo, and create the future they want to see. Tune in for fresh insights, actionable strategies, and unexpected inspiration.

Episodes

733 EXTRA The Future Of Commerce

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?

Mar 02, 20239 min

732 Innovation And Transformation In Government Policy with Badri Narayanan @ NITI Aayog

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 Secretar...

Mar 01, 202358 min

731 EXTRA Change The Nouns

https://thinkfuture.com --- To innovate, its helps to generate uncommon semantic juxtapositions, which can then trigger new thinking.

Feb 28, 20238 min

730 EXTRA Startup Monday: Hot Or Not For Anything

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.

Feb 27, 20238 min

727 Fixing Healthcare In America with Leesa Tori @ BrightSide Solutions

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...

Feb 22, 202355 min

725 EXTRA Smartphone Uniformity

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

Feb 17, 20238 min

724 EXTRA Think Like A Kid

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 underst...

Feb 16, 20239 min

723 Transdisciplinary Strategy & Design with Despina Papadopoulos @ Principled Design

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 Lubrizo...

Feb 15, 202356 min

722 EXTRA We Need More Autonomy

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

Feb 14, 20239 min

721 EXTRA Startup Monday: Social Network Interests

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

Feb 13, 20238 min

720 EXTRA Why Do We Still...

Looking for white spaces to build product in? Try asking "why do we still..." --- https://thinkfuture.com

Feb 10, 20239 min

719 EXTRA Learn To Code?

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

Feb 09, 20239 min

718 Fraud Busting For Everyone with Dhiraj Bhat @ Unit21

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

Feb 08, 202359 min

717 EXTRA Apolitical Solutions

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

Feb 07, 202310 min

715 EXTRA The Future Of Streaming

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 oppor...

Feb 03, 202310 min

713 AI, Inflation, Innovation & The Future with Robyn Bolton @ MileZero

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. 

Feb 01, 202354 min

711 EXTRA Startup Monday: 1000 Truths

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

Jan 30, 20239 min

708 Building Zero To One with Paul Genberg @ BCG X

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 lau...

Jan 25, 202353 min

706 EXTRA Startup Monday: Body Positivity Scale

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

Jan 23, 20239 min

705 EXTRA Content Marketing: AI Vs AI

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

Jan 20, 202311 min
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