Will We Have Vintage Gadgets In The Future? | Unusual Gatherings | With Diana Kelley, Limor Kessem, Chris Roberts, Cody Wamsley, and Scott Scheferman
12/09/20 • 60 min
Nostalgia is not as good as it used to be. 😬 Each generation talks about the "good ole days" and how life was simpler, better; even the toys were so much simpler and more fun back then. Then technology kicked in — what's up next?
From manual to mechanical; kinetic to electronic; analog to digital; calculator to a personal computer; telephone to the Internet — "real" reality to virtual and augmented versions, human intelligence to artificial intelligence — and everything in between, and beyond.
Lately, each generation has found itself in the middle of some technological transformation. In the past 70 years, this has happened more often, and it has affected our society and personal everyday life in much more profound and significant ways.
In the 80s, many exceptional transformations took place — we could consider it the portal that brought us in direct contact with the modern digital technology age. Faster than any past transformation before, our work, family, friends, and personal lives changed in front of our own eyes and opened the way to an unstoppable and constant change. Moore's law can give an idea of the magnitude here, but it may miss the full extent of today's technological evolution.
We start the conversation today by looking back at the many electronic gadgets, our first electronic games, Walkman's, digital watches, and the first computers of our younger age. Then we try to understand what made them so unique and so magical to have captured our attention at the time; in many cases, they actually shaped our future professional lives.
Will the young generations of today look back at a smartphone the same way we look at a VHS player back then? What made that technology so unique? What makes vintage electronics and gadgets still capture our attention and the desire to bring those back into our lives even today. Maybe even more than ever.
This is where technology and life meet, but we promise that these conversations will not stop here. We do not know where they will go, but if you stay tuned, you will know when we do.
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Diana Kelley, Limor Kessem, Chris Roberts, Cody Wamsley, and Scott Scheferman
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Nostalgia is not as good as it used to be. 😬 Each generation talks about the "good ole days" and how life was simpler, better; even the toys were so much simpler and more fun back then. Then technology kicked in — what's up next?
From manual to mechanical; kinetic to electronic; analog to digital; calculator to a personal computer; telephone to the Internet — "real" reality to virtual and augmented versions, human intelligence to artificial intelligence — and everything in between, and beyond.
Lately, each generation has found itself in the middle of some technological transformation. In the past 70 years, this has happened more often, and it has affected our society and personal everyday life in much more profound and significant ways.
In the 80s, many exceptional transformations took place — we could consider it the portal that brought us in direct contact with the modern digital technology age. Faster than any past transformation before, our work, family, friends, and personal lives changed in front of our own eyes and opened the way to an unstoppable and constant change. Moore's law can give an idea of the magnitude here, but it may miss the full extent of today's technological evolution.
We start the conversation today by looking back at the many electronic gadgets, our first electronic games, Walkman's, digital watches, and the first computers of our younger age. Then we try to understand what made them so unique and so magical to have captured our attention at the time; in many cases, they actually shaped our future professional lives.
Will the young generations of today look back at a smartphone the same way we look at a VHS player back then? What made that technology so unique? What makes vintage electronics and gadgets still capture our attention and the desire to bring those back into our lives even today. Maybe even more than ever.
This is where technology and life meet, but we promise that these conversations will not stop here. We do not know where they will go, but if you stay tuned, you will know when we do.
Guest(s)
Diana Kelley, Limor Kessem, Chris Roberts, Cody Wamsley, and Scott Scheferman
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We often feel the need to clarify the real meaning of marketing terms floating around technology and cybersecurity. We believe in sharing knowledge and educate people instead of fooling and luring them with blinking lights. Today we go back to terms we have discussed in the past and see if we have made any progress in the way we present them to the general public: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
In today's episode, nearly four years later, we invited Scott Scheferman to see what has changed since, and to do so in a more conversational style, we asked him to co-host this episode and bring a guest with him: Joyce Drohan.
The capabilities brought to bear by AI and ML have become table stakes in cybersecurity. Customers expect every vendor to have some form of AI or ML in their product or service. However, does it matter to the customer if it works; how it works?
Apart from the marketing use of these terms, the big questions are what is real now and what is not; what are the way we can benefit from AI and ML in the present time; what can be considered the next feasible advancement that we can see coming; and what fields will help the most.
In fields such as cybersecurity, medicine, banking, there are already returns on investment that are clear, quantifiable, and somehow unrefutable. We may all agreed that "It takes a Terminator to kill a Terminator." But we may as well decide on when a "Terminator" would not be appropriate. In doing so, we enter the realm of society where the technology operates in connection with humans and for humans. Let's use ethics and philosophy to think about desirable or unpleasant scenarios before it is too late.
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Listen up and let us know your thoughts.
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Joyce Drohan
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Imagine you could experience worlds that you design and build the way you want them to be; alternative realities that you can enter and leave as you wish. Now, imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for... imagine all the people, livin' life in peace.
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She has been named one of Bristol's Top Nine "Women To Watch" in STEM and featured in numerous magazine, radio, and television features.
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Antonia Forster, XR Technical Specialist at Unity Technologies (@AntoniaRForster on Twitter)
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