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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Encore The Future of Sustainability and Technology: Is It Enough? Part 2

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Technology, News, Business News

4.9112 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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: 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 3: "I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel – that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment." [Bertrand Piccard FRSGS, Swiss explorer, psychiatrist, environmentalist] The Buzz 4: "Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity." [Ramez Naam, American technologist, sci-fiction author: Nexus Trilogy] The Big Question: Can we achieve Sustainability through data-driven processes, technology, collective mindset, government mandates, individual action or a combination of the above? We'll ask Don DeLoach, Debra Lam, Geoffrey Kasselman, and Rob Tiffany for their take on The Future of Sustainability and Technology: Enough for Tomorrow? – Part 2.

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0:00.0

Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?

0:16.0

Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.

0:21.3

Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven

0:27.2

trends that are shaping our future right now.

0:30.6

Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.

0:36.0

Bonnie D. in the house, happy to be here. I think we got somebody, one of my panelists is in a swimming pool. Jeffrey, why don't you mute for a second there, dear. Let's get rid of that back. There we go. We are live, everybody, wave hello to LinkedIn, wave hello to Facebook. I don't have the fancy countdown clock. We're covering a topic today. This is part two of a topic that everybody's talking about.

0:55.1

I don't know what people are doing about it, but they're talking about it.

0:58.2

And we're still trying to understand it.

0:59.9

The topic is sustainability.

1:02.1

And of course, this is technology revolution.

1:04.2

So we're talking about sustainability and technology.

1:07.4

That's our spin.

1:08.6

And the question is, are we doing enough for tomorrow for our kids

1:12.1

for our grandkids for anybody in that future so this is part two welcome welcome welcome let me give a

1:17.8

couple of buzz quotes and then i will have my experts introduce themselves so bear with me here

1:23.2

buzz number one this is from forbes one of my favorite quotes. Sustainability is no longer a buzzword, but an environmental, economic, and social driver that

1:32.3

is changing our day-to-day lives committing to sustainable practices is no longer a nice

1:37.9

to have, but a must-do. Panel, nod and wave if you agree with that. It's a must-do.

1:43.3

We got it. That's why you're all here. Good. Good start. I have the right people. Then bus number two is from a quote from McKinsey. They say technologies shaping the sustainability agenda include. I'm just going to throw a couple out there. These are interesting. Public electric transport. I think we've seen some of that. Electric trucks. Cheap energy storage. Oh, yes. Plastic recycling,

2:01.7

thank goodness. LED light efficiency, accessible solar power. I don't have panels, but I know people

2:07.1

who do. Carbon capture and storage and hydrogen in the energy transition. So those are a few

2:12.6

of things that are happening, right? Deborah. Deborah's nodding. She likes that. I have a quote now

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