Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast.

I'm your host, Juliet Lamar, and we have with us today the very powerful, very strong woman, Janice Taylor. She is the CEO at

Mazu. Welcome, Janice. So great to have you on. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really,

I'm really grateful. So tell us a little bit about Mazu. Well, Mazu was basically my creation

out of my imagination, looking at what was happening in social media.

And I'm a mom of two girls, and I basically, about nine years ago even, just sort of looked at this, opened up Facebook and went, okay, what's going to go wrong in this situation?

This all seems nice and good for now, but eventually, you know, this is going to go bad.

And so basically, Mazu is my version of my reality in some ways growing up in Canada of a

digital village where parents and children are in a space that's healthy and positive.

And we really teach children core values, but we also have some fun.

So it's like the old Burbage goes, you know, it takes a village to raise

a family. That's kind of what we're going off of here. Yes, 100%. Now, if you look at social media

right now, if any of those spaces, you know, most times the, you know, the owners of those or the

creators of those tech companies pretend children aren't there. But let's be honest, we all know children are in those spaces.

And so if you think about it, you know, if we're going to be in these spaces and quote

unquote socialize in them, it should have some core values, some rules, some engagement

that's really sort of reflective of how we live in our real life.

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