Ben, James, and Brandon discuss the start f their quarantine [which by definition is supposed to last 40 days], via the web about what's happening, where we may be headed, and what constants have been destroyed.
If you predict the future far enough into the future, no one will remember if you're right or if you're wrong. So go big.
The crew looks back at the year of 2019, from creepy to awesome and back again. We've looked at the data. You're smart and you know how to use the Internet. That means you don't need us to post links to articles. However, if you enjoy the links in the show notes and the description let us know and we will see what we can do.
Special guest, Anna G joins us in the GardenGrove to talk about AAPL, books we are reading, and to take shots at our beloved James as he galavants across Europe. YOUR LISTENING LINK COMPANION: WWDC Highlights Dark Mode 38 Myspace Pictures That’ll Take You Right Back To The ’00s Catalina Wine Mixer 2019 Long Live the Touch Bar Face Scanning for the Masses Most Epic Fails of Apple Maps RIP iTunes. Finally. MIT Reshapes Itself Jack Dorsey and Longevity Butterfly IQ The Utility of Rules After On: Cancelling PTSD with MDMA How to Do Nothing
"We knew they would build the Terminator, but we just didn't think it would be your Job Terminator. - James" Trump and Dump Bot Amazon Automatically Fires Workers Forty percent of ‘AI startups’ in Europe don’t actually use AI The Glass Cage SNL and Amazon Alexa Life 3.0 I, Robot This AI-generated Joe Rogan fake has to be heard to be believed. Amazon wearable to detect depression. Elon approves every expense over $1M Texas Monthly Live Useful Wild Plants
eSports. Why is it a thing? How did we get here? Where are we going? eSports "Brawl" Amazon Buys Twitch Leeroy Jenkins Leeroy Jenkins Video HOU Rockets sell stake in Clutch Gaming The Wizard Stadia Marshmello Fortnite Release Party Black Hole Photo Julian Assange Arrested The Ending to GoT
Apple Showtime Event Apple $250bn Cash Apple + GS Apple Arcade Elizabeth Warren and Tech Breakup Drunk Shoppers Make up $39bn a Year Business ATT 5G Slower Than Other's 4G Microsoft Gives Away 500 Patents LotNetworks
On the heels of the recent academic scandal, the crew takes a quick look at the current state of education and what the future has in store. Beto Runs Act Blue Academic Scandal Key Worldwide Foundation Rating Nano Degrees The Giant Pool of Money What is a MOOC? Income Share Agreements Ivory Tower Trailer Skull and Bones: 15 Most Powerful Members Fundamental VR MySpace Loses 12 years worth of music Tesla Model WHY? Post Human Habitats --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
The crew quickly discusses what we are seeing on day number 1 of SXSW 2019 and makes some predictions on themes, yet to be seen. Black Feather Whiskey John Boehner and Cannabis Newt Gingrich sits in the back of Airforce 1 Kevin Systrom Keynote Facebook Pivot to Privacy Social Media and Blockchain Kara Swisher and Jack Dorsey eSports WoW sells out Staples Video Games sell out Madison Square Garden VR/AR/MR at SXSW 2019 AI and Creativity Apple AR Glass The End of Killing Angela Yang and SXSW 2019 NatGeo 'Mars' The Mastermind by Even Ratliff Modern Elder Academy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
With zebra muscles on the mind, the crew sticks to beer and wine as they discuss the pending future of the restaurant experience. Zebra Muscles Why Austins Water Supply Smells like Garbage Steven Johnson - How We Got to Now What is a Ghost Kitchen? Restaurants, the Next Coworking Trend Flippy. Why Sweetgreen thinks like a tech company. Fitness Genes Helix FoldiMate Olay Skin Care Israeli Company Claims That They Will Have A Cure For Cancer Ethical OS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
Coming off of Valentines Day, the crew recorded early in the day discussing love in the digital age, and the relationship humans have with machines today and in the future. Dating apps owned by Match Group For $29, This Man Will Help Manipulate Your Loved Ones With Targeted Facebook And Browser Links SwuM - Draco Lara, Youre Dating Advisor Mystic Messenger Even If AI Can Cure Loneliness — Should It? Amazon buys Eero Architecture of Radio Amazon Pulls Out of NYC --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
The crew is back in early February to get in last minute predictions for 2019. Covering everything from tech regulation to the return of the mighty flip phone. For show links head to the Cocktails + Questions website. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
Drinking hot coffee with tequila, and craft beers, the crew talks about voting in the age of convenience and the future of the democratic experience. Bradley Tusk + West Virginia Quotes on Democracy. $380M Dollars for Voting Security China Builds Their Own MOOOOOOOON! Ghosted Chinese Disneyland Macy's rolls out largest VR shopping experience Majority of millennials don't have a PCP Hemingway App How much rain fell in Texas during Harvey zozo.com Audible. Bad Blood. 3D Printing Human Cells --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
The crew talks Sir Tim Berners Lee and your right to get paid for your data, and the pending consequences of Inrupt. Ranch 616 Ranch Water - https://theranch616.com/ Tim Berners Lee - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee Victor Gruen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gruen Inrupt - https://www.inrupt.com/ Instagram InfluencerFee - https://influencerfee.com/ Target Incubator- https://corporate.target.com/article/2018/10/target-incubator Long Live Retail - https://www.retaildive.com/news/e-commerce-pure-plays-set-to-open-850-stores-in-five-years/539320/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
Season 2 starts off with the crew talking about the recent discovery that China has placed microchips designed to spy, in some of the nation's largest organizations. How do you say Cannes? War Games IMDB The Big Hack Digital Art Museum Tiny Robot. Dry Stomach. Giant high-school college QB --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
It turns out the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica incident was kind of a thing. Zuck heads to The Hill to explain that he "sells ads, sir." And we discuss the pending business model augmentation for them, those that rely on their platform and other trying to do something new. Vitagoods Scale - https://vitagoods.com/collections/fitness-1/products/body-analyzer1-digital-body-analyzer Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer - https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093471/kendrick-lamar-wins-pulitzer Facebook to charge? - https://www.dailydot.com/debug/facebook-ad-free-subscription-11-dollars/ Facebook Hearings Recap - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-testimony-key-points.html Mark Zuckerberg and his cushion and booster seat - http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-used-a-booster-seat-to-testify-to-congress-2018-4 PALANTIR - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/ MB Subscription Program - https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-benz-car-subscription-program-nashville-philadelphia/ Volvo Subscription Program - http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/volvos-new-campaign-and-app-promote-a-radical-concept-subscribing-to-a-car/ Future of Subscription Model (Harvard) - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/whats-the-future-of-the-subscription-model 3D-Printed Homes - https://www.chron.com/business/article/3D-printed-house-Austin-Texas-12749008.php#photo-15223457 Things we saw this week: Sir Martin Sorrell - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43771974 James loves science - https://cheekyscience.com/ Alexa Skill Templates - https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/start Taylor Swift - September https://open.spotify.com/track/5eGX87IiKsGuzS3iw4CfCX?si=9yuSu3nrT6-6RfZ3JzrQoA Tekashi69 + Adrien Broner - http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/22/adrien-broner-refuses-accept-draw-against-jessie-vargas-boxing-matching-tekashi69/ Business Wars - First Computer War - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-first-computer-war-the-electronic-brain-1/id1335814741?i=1000409232908&mt=2 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
Back from the ATLiens and the Dirty Bird. Talking about 1/3 of the American workforce will be replaced by AI. Who are we talking about? And what should the kids do? Airplane eating rage - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120167-why-the-sound-of-noisy-eating-fills-some-people-with-rage/ McKinsey Overview - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/one-third-of-us-workers-could-be-jobless-by-2030-due-to-automation.html Universal Basic Income - https://futurism.com/images/universal-basic-income-answer-automation/ Office Space - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo Coolest things we saw: Apple Hires Away Google Head of Search and AI - https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17195076/google-ai-chief-john-giannandrea-joining-apple-machine-learning-siri Jack Nicklaus and his grandson - https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/watch-jack-nicklaus-grandson-hits-a-hole-in-one-at-the-masters-par-3-tournament/ Tony Finau hole-in-one disastrous celebration - https://www.sbnation.com/golf/2018/4/4/17200118/tony-finau-masters-par-3-contest-ankle PrettyLitter - https://prettylittercats.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
What's up John!? Things we covered RIP Craig Mack - https://open.spotify.com/track/3X414ZlCf5U7pcpIaIcUkT?si=HWZ2BY3bS4KfDX7E1hBUYA Quick SXSW Observations Black Mirror - Nosedive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive Facebook + Cambridge Analytica - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambridge-analytica-explained.html Coolest things we saw: Karate Kid Reboot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwwxNbtK6Y Paw Patrol Earning Power http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lists-and-rankings/richest-people/10-fortunes-that-started-small/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
This week we will be covering all things Artificial Intelligence. There are lots of questions being discussed in this conversation including if we have control over where AI is headed and on a darker side, what happens if it goes wrong? Is our society prepared? Tune in for a great episode where we address a lot of the scary realities we sometimes forget to consider with AI. Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini Robot Dog: http://bit.ly/2ELVDpu “AI Ripe for Exploitation, Expert Warns”: http://bbc.in/2oe1nxQ The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report: https://maliciousaireport.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support
This week we are diving into one of our favorite things, Gartner Hype Cycles and predicting future technologies. This conversation is inspired by an article by Michael Mullany titled, “8 Lessons from 20 Years of Hype Cycles.” Tune in as we crank through these arguments and share what we think he got right. Read the article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-from-20-years-hype-cycles-michael-mullany/ Gartner Hype Cycles Research Methodology: https://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cqpod/support