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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.
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Episodes

742 Innovation And Startups For Governments with Giovanni Martinez @ MindTheBridge

https://thinkfuture.com | Experienced in international project management, corporate finance, investment research, and financial forecasting. Analytical, intellectually curious, and creative about new ways to grow and expand with current and future investment opportunities. Analyzed the acquisition of over 50 million dollars in fixed-income assets, including bonds, and notes. Administering and exploring platforms such as Excel, Python, SQL, and internal audit systems for the direct payment of ov...

Mar 15, 202343 min

741 EXTRA Is Design Dead? No, We Just Don't Like Being Too "Different"

https://thinkfuture.com | Seen that image of all SUVs which look alike? While regulation and safety play a role, we see the same design over and over because most people want something similar to what everyone else already has. We like different, but not too different.

Mar 14, 202311 min

740 EXTRA Is ChatGPT A Reflection Of Society

https://thinkfuture.com | I wrote a book with ChatGPT because I figured it was a mirror of humanity, but some disagreed. Do you believe ChatGPT could eventually become a more accurate mirror of society?

Mar 13, 202310 min

738 EXTRA 1984 And Brave New World Have Arrived

https://thinkfuture.com | 1984 and Brave New World were warnings, not guidebooks, but we have turned them into them. Here we are, drinking from our SOMA feeds on our phones, going catatonic when our phones are taken away, and starting to censor art retroactively, like Roald Dahl's books, some of which are offending our newly sensitive palette. This is just plain wrong. The only artists who should be allowed to change their work are themselves. That art is a product of its time, and if we can cen...

Mar 09, 202311 min

737 The Future Of Generative AI with Bernard Crespo & Gam Dias

https://thinkfuture.com | The Future of Generative AI with my eminent guests and experts in the field: Bernardo Crespo and Gam Dias Bernardo Crespo Passionate about digital strategy and leadership. I help leading companies (Fortune 500) to follow the best path I have learned by applying a digital transformation (dogfooding). Passionate about sharing, I lead the academic direction of the Digital Transformation Executive Program at IE Business School and lecture on Data and Digital Strategy at IE ...

Mar 08, 202356 min

736 EXTRA Kill The Drag

https://thinkfuture.com | How to innovate? Take a deep look at where your customer experiences drag and alleviate it, not by deceiving the user with awkward keyboard layouts or loading gifs.

Mar 07, 20239 min

735 EXTRA Startup Monday: The Demand Engine

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 program...

Mar 06, 202311 min

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
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