Technology - Trends

August 4, 2011

Interview with Dan Pink, author of the book  A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

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Mike Carruthers:
If you're worried about your current job or where your next job is coming from, you're in good company - no one really knows what the future holds.

Dan Pink:
Ten years from now, twenty years from now a lot of the work that people are going to be doing is going to be in professions that don't exist in industries that haven't been invented yet.
 

August 1, 2011

Interview with Thomas Cooper, PhD author of the book Fast Media, Media Fast: How to Clear Your Mind and Invigorate Your Life In an Age of Media Overload

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Mike Carruthers:
Technology has changed our lives but the change is not all good for all people, for some it has become an addiction.

Thomas Cooper PhD:
People unable to leave their cell phone, to leave their hand held device, people unable to stop watching sports every night, those kinds of media addictions allow us to become the first culture to spend more time with machines than with each other.
 

July 6, 2011

Interview with Brian X. Chen, author of the book Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In

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Mike Carruthers:
Whenever new technology has appeared there have always been people to condemn it.

Brian X. Chen:
All the way back to Socrates, Socrates feared the pen he thought that writing things down would make us not be able to memorize things ever again.
 

June 1, 2011

Interview with Jason Ohler, author of the book Digital Community, Digital Citizen

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Mike Carruthers:
Ever since cellphones became available people have complained they are a big distraction.

Jason Ohler:
Well I think most people have that visceral experience where they’re talking to somebody and a text comes in and they say, “I gotta take this.”
 

March 22, 2011

Interview with Dan Gardner, author of the book Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

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Mike Carruthers:
For years the talking heads on TV have been predicting the future of politics, the stock market and world events and up till now they’ve mostly been wrong.

Dan Gardner:
And so the question then is, “Well if the experts were failing to predict the future in the past are they any better now?”  And I think the answer is no.
 

March 21, 2011

Interview with Dan Gardner, author of the book Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

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Mike Carruthers:
When you watch television, news and business shows there’s no shortage of experts predicting the future of politics, world events and the stock market. Are they accurate?

Dan Gardner:
What you need of course to access expert prediction accuracy is a proper experiment unfortunately that experiment has been done.
 

March 3, 2011

Interview with Patrick J. Howie, author of the book The Evolution of Revolutions: How We Create, Shape, and React to Change

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Mike Carruthers:
Fascinating thing about change and innovation, at best, you get to be responsible for just one.

Patrick J. Howie:
We always look to the people who’ve created in the last revolution as the person who’s going to create the next one or predict the next one – that’s rarely the case.
 

March 2, 2011

Interview with Patrick J. Howie, author of the book The Evolution of Revolutions: How We Create, Shape, and React to Change

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Mike Carruthers:
For you new ideas to be successful you have to understand the 3 phases of innovation.

Patrick J. Howie:
The 1st stage is sort of the natural phase of resistance; every innovation no matter how compelling it is (especially to the innovator) is going to see resistance.

February 24, 2011

Interview with Mark Stevenson, author of the book An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you heard of something called bacterial fuels? Someone is actually doing this.

Mark Stevenson:
They’re making gasoline by putting carbon dioxide into a bacteria, the bacteria eats the carbon dioxide and it excretes gasoline. It’s not science fiction this is happening right now. 
 

February 23, 2011

Interview with Brian Greene, author of the book The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

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Mike Carruthers:
See if you can get your head around this concept that our universe may not be the only universe.

Brain Greene:
We have evidence from mathematical investigations that our reality may be a small part of a much grander whole that itself may contain other universes.