Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Looking ahead to 2030: How will we work? How will we get around? What will we eat? How will we dress? How safe will our privacy be? Will we all be space travelers? What old and new challenges will we face? The Buzz 1: The top seven emerging future technology booms that will redefine the future and the world we live in by 2030: More AI companies. Growth of self-driving cars. More robots doing manufacturing jobs. Smart clothing embedded with Bluetooth chips. Space elevators. Pervasive cloud computing. Growth in the augmented, virtual, and mixed reality optics and display markets. [unboxingstartups.com/7-emerging-technologies-that-will-revolutionize-the-world-by-2030] The Buzz 2: Advanced farming will tell us exactly where our food is coming from. On-demand ecosystem of vehicles with different form factors. Almost every occupation will still have tasks machines will find very difficult to do. [www.bosch.com/stories/vision-2030] We'll ask Rik Ferguson at Trend Micro, Colin Dunn at Fend Incorporated, Jon Clay at Trend Micro and Mike Schroeder at 3 Territory Solutions for their take on Our Cyber Future In 2030: Will The Livin' Be Easy?

The Buzz 1: Grateful people feel more optimistic and happy, better mitigate aversive experiences, and have stronger interpersonal bonds. Gratitude interventions have been shown to result in improved sleep, more frequent exercise, and stronger cardiovascular and immune systems. [psywb.springeropen.com] The Buzz 2: Children spend an average of 53 hours per week with digital media — video games, social media, reality TV, exposure to violence, virtual connections that replace face-to-face friendships – which researchers fear may be causing a decline in empathy. [doinggoodtogether.org] The Buzz 3: Expressing gratitude can positively change your brain. It boosts dopamine and serotonin, the neurotransmitters in the brain that improve your mood immediately, giving you those positive feelings of pleasure, happiness, and well-being. [healthcare.utah.edu] The Buzz 4: Gratitude apps will help you improve your mood by focusing on the good things in your life. [makeuseof.com] We'll ask Karen Gibson, Deslynn Jaquias, Sandy Davies and Sarah Klaiber for their take on The Future of Gratitude, Attitude, Mental Health and Technology.

The Buzz 1: Wine tourism —aka oenotourism, enotourism, vinitourism— lures wine lovers to vineyards, wineries, cellars, and museums dedicated to wine. The wine tourism global market size is expected to more than triple by 2030 to ~29.6B euros. (statista.com) The Buzz 2: According to a late-2020 www.statista.com survey, wine tourists are mainly casual wine tasters rather than wine geeks. The Buzz 3: People in Portugal consume more wine than any other country worldwide, with an annual per capita consumption of 52 liters in 2020. Next is Italy: 47 liters per capita. The Buzz 4: Decanter Magazine publishes wine travel guides to ?Italy, ?South Africa, ?Europe and the UK. Wwinepaths.com/ organizes luxury wine tours, intimate group trips and wine holidays around the world. Winemag.com reports on wine travel from touring the historic underground caves of Champagne to playing winemaker for a day in California's Napa Valley. We'll ask Bill Newman, Beth Kaczmarek, Christian Oggenfuss, and Brenda Boudreaux for their take on The Future of Wine Culture, Wine Tourism and Technology: L'Chaim!

The Buzz 1: "Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary." (Margaret Cho, stand-up comedian) The Buzz 2: Millions of people are unaware of and uninformed about how their personal information is being used, collected or shared in our digital society. Data Privacy Week aims to inspire dialogue and empower individuals and companies to take action. (staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-week) The Buzz 3: "In the next three years, the value of data will increase, making it even more valuable than it is today. The more efficiently you store your data, the more benefits your business will see." (Thomas Harrer, CTO, IBM Systems Hardware Sales in Europe) The Buzz 4: "Digital freedom stops where that of users begins... digital evolution must no longer be offered to a customer in trade-off between privacy and security. Privacy is not for sale, it's a valuable asset to protect." (Stephane Nappo, Global Head, Information Security, Société Générale International Banking) The Buzz 5: "Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book: The most common categories for 2021 complaints were identity theft, imposter scams…… 406,000+ people reported someone submitted a fraudulent government document under their name."(consumeraffairs.com) We'll ask Mike Audi, Tim Drisdelle, Shane Faria and Bingxu Ren for their take on Your Data Everywhere: Is Privacy in Your Future?

The Buzz 1: Drones are a transformative technology that, over the next decade, will change in ways you likely never imagined… Similar to Electronic Automobiles, drones offer another important option in fending off greenhouse gasses and becoming carbon neutral. (forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/06/30) The Buzz 2: Google announced on Oct 6, 2021 that it has started drone deliveries straight from a shopping mall directly to customers' homes…The all-time record? Two minutes, 47 seconds.…Wing reached the 100,000 delivery milestone in August 2021, becoming the largest residential drone delivery service in the world. (forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/10/06) The Buzz 3: The global drone industry is projected to grow 12.3% annually, nearing $41B by 2027, according to Brandessence Market Research. Just a few years ago, drones were still considered science fiction. (money.usnews.com/investing) We'll ask Chuck Byers, Sandra Formenton, Ryan Walsh and Pharns Genece for their take on The Future of Drones: Landing on a Porch or Planet Near You Soon? – Part 2.

The Buzz 1: It's easier to write about a period you've lived through, but what do you do when everyone who lived during that time is long gone?…The obvious first place to start is with non-fiction books. (Kat Clay) The Buzz 2: Historical nonfiction is a broad category that depicts historical, real-life events…literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, creative nonfiction overlap with historical nonfiction. (Masterclass staff) The Buzz 3: Historical fiction can be a tricky genre to master. If you haven't done your homework it won't feel authentic but…no one wants to read a novel that feels like a school history lesson… don't chase accuracy too hard. (Hannah Kohler) The Buzz 4: Start with historical nonfiction. Poach bibliographies. Fall down the Google/Pinterest black hole, then dig yourself out. Read historical fiction…carefully…Get your (virtual) hands on memoirs and documents. (Lydia Kang) We'll ask authors Brad Borkan, Ursula Wong, Sarah Smith and Sharon Yang for their take on "The Future of Historical Research and Technology: Reading The Past."

The Buzz 1: Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword, but an environmental, economic and social driver that's changing our day-to-day lives… committing to sustainable practices is no longer a "nice to have" but a "must do"…. (forbes.com) The Buzz 2: The fully circular shoe brand Thousand Fell launched in 2019 embracing the circular economy, but the linear 'take-make-waste' system continued to drive fashion. In 2020, France's new anti-waste law prevented the destruction of unsold items and in 2021, its new Repairability Index required manufacturers to rate their electrical products on a scale out of ten on how easy they were to repair. The Buzz 3: Technologies shaping the sustainability agenda: Public electric transport. Electric trucks. Cheap energy storage. Plastic recycling. LED light efficiency. Accessible solar power. Carbon capture and storage. Hydrogen in the energy transition. (mckinsey.com) The Buzz 4: Sustainability headlines: Synthetic fuels are the future of Formula One. Climate tech start-ups raised a record $32B globally as of October 2021. India's Mahindra Group expects 50% of vehicles sold by 2030 to be electric. UK aims to boost solar by predicting cloud movements with A.I. Aviation is Changing: hydrogen planes, electric propulsion and new regulations. We'll ask Chris Rezendes, Jen Beason, Rana Chakrabarti and Dr. Amanda Kiessel for their take on "The Future of Sustainability and Technology: Enough for Tomorrow?"

The Buzz 1: Today's female reader is pressed for time, demanding as hell, and both scared and excited about the future…Female detectives, athletes and presidential candidates were rule breakers simply for trying … Today's heroine has declared herself her own authority. www.writersdigest.com The Buzz 2: The best literary heroines are worth imitating… (mostly) fictional, but they have a great deal to teach us about ourselves and the real-life stories we find ourselves in. teaandinksociety.com The Buzz 3: Great female characters, like the great women you come across in real life, can change your perception of what's possible…inspire you to take risks, stand your ground, go on great adventures or simply speak up for yourself.… they're flawed and vulnerable, just like we all are. www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk We'll ask Clea Simon, Edwin Hill, Catriona McPherson, and Carolyn Marie Wilkins for their take on The Future of Literary Heroines: Perfect or Flawed & Vulnerable?

The Buzz 1: "Music is the shorthand of emotion" (Leo Tolstoy). "Hell is full of musical amateurs" (George Bernard Shaw). "The only truth is music" (Jack Kerouac). The Buzz 2: In 1930, Albert Einstein met with Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore in Caputh, Germany, to discuss the nature of music… Einstein served as the vice president of the Princeton Symphony from 1952 until he died in 1955… During a 1929 Saturday Evening Post interview, Einstein said that, had he not been a scientist, he would have been a musician. (www.cbc.ca) The Buzz 3: "New technology in music has changed the way we listen to music and the ways we create music…from synthesizers to DAWs …from CD players to iPhones…." (interestingengineering.com) The Buzz 4: "The future of music in the digital age is focused on how streaming services will differentiate themselves from the competition, how artists will reach their fanbase, and revisiting popular music industry trends of the past with innovations, such as the modern record player." (victrola.com/blogs) We'll ask Serge Hoffmann, Nelson Malleus, Matt Champion and Eric Zorgniotti for their take on The Future of Musicians, Music and Technology: The Sweetest Sounds?!

The Buzz 1: The term 'Great Resignation' was likely coined by Anthony Klotz, a psychologist and professor at Texas A&M, in May 2021. He told Business Insider that events like the pandemic make people step back and rethink their lives. In some cases, that can cause people to change up careers — and companies will have to adjust. The Buzz 2: Kerry Brown asks, Should We Resign Ourselves To The Great Resignation? and offers evidence for Yes. (www.forbes.com) The Buzz 3: Arianne Cohen wrote tips on how to engineer a 'smooth exit.' (www.bloomberg.com) The Buzz 4: Derek Thompson claims a lasting effect of this pandemic will be a revolution in worker expectations. (Work in Progress newsletter for The Atlantic) The Buzz 5: Derek Thompson also writes, Three Myths of the Great Resignation – What if I told you the Big Quit wasn't really about 'quitting'? (www.theatlantic.com) We'll ask Kerry Brown, Bill Mr Simplicity Jensen, Frances Taplett and Dr. Scott Dust for their take on The Future of The Great Resignation: Take This Job and ___ It!