How Do We Prefer Things in the Present Against the Future?

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We all focus on the current state of things, both technology and our lives. And it's really hard to think through how both of those things evolve with time. When you're used to engaging with things that are pretty perfected, let's yust say, like an apple laptop. But when you do that right now, it just doesn't compare to the apple labtop. It's hard to judge that technology for where it will go. I wonder how much of this is hard wired into our brain. Have you heard of temporal discounting? We prefer things in the present versus the future. An example, as you might prefer an apple to day over two apples a couple of years from

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.