What Will the Future Be?

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This year, in financial markets, you saw a situation where retail traders were able to literally move market so game stop, doge coin, et cetera. And i bet if you talked to institutional investors about this year, they would be like, what the hell just happen? I didn't think that could even happen. That's what's so crazy about technology, is that it's expedential nature. Then you lay on other forms of technology, which are also expedential, and then you get crazy phenomena like that.

What do airplanes, railroads, and jazz music have in common? They were all innovations that people feared.

In fact, if you look into any key technology shift from the past, you'll find a wealth of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding it. And while this shouldn't be surprising, we can still learn from the skeptics of the past.

We can learn just how difficult it is to predict what's to come and look toward our future with a humble perspective, an acceptance that we probably will get it wrong again.

In this episode, Calvin and Steph talk through how people viewed inventions seemingly as innocuous as the bicycle or teddy bear, what we can learn from these stories, and how to stay open minded and capitalize on opportunities as technology takes us into the future.