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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Game-Changers Crystal Ball 2018 Predictions - Part 4

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9108 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: Welcome to 2018! If your #1 business wish is to know what 2018 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. We're bringing you predictions from 70 thought leaders about the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete in 2018 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for SAP Game-Changers Radio 2018 Predictions–Part 4 live. And mark your calendar for Jan. 17 [Part 5]. All episodes will be available on-demand. You'll hear from Amit Rustagi, Western Digital; Tom Raftery, SAP; Frank D. Geisler, ERPsourcing AG; Kirsten Boileau, SAP; Chandran Saravana, SAP; Bill Powell, ARI Fleet; Michele Hovet, KSM Consulting; Roger Quinlan, SAP; Nathan Ott, The GC Index®; Cara DeGraff, Vistex; Vanessa Edmonds, TMG Consulting; David Den Boer, Column5 Consulting; Windie Wilson, SAP; Brian Katz, VMware; David Parrish, SAP. Happy New Year from SAP Game-Changers Radio!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

0:13.1

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

0:17.1

The best run business is run SAP.

0:19.7

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

0:22.1

You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.

0:29.9

Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

0:32.6

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

0:34.4

Times 15.

0:35.6

This is part four of our prediction special for 2018. Thrill to be here today. We are live. It is Wednesday, January 10th, 2018. I got to change the date in my notes here. Yes, Bonnie. We have had three already episodes of specials. We brought you 45 predictions from thought leaders all over the world, and are rocking it let me tell you let me start off with a quick note about some famously wrong predictions in history and then i'll tell you who our first guests are in our first segment

1:06.0

uh how about thomas watson the chairman of ibn in nineteen forty three the following. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

1:15.2

Okay, thank you, Mr. Watson.

1:16.9

How about H.M. Warner, who founded Warner Brothers in 1927, said,

1:20.9

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

1:23.3

Okay.

1:24.0

What about Lord Kelvin, the president of the Royal Society in 1895, said the following,

1:29.2

heavier than air flying machines are impossible? Okay, Lord Kelvin. And one more. From Charles

1:36.3

Duel, the commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents back in 1890. He said,

1:41.5

everything that can be invented has been invented.

1:45.1

Well, I just have to say, duh.

1:47.0

Okay, so here we are.

1:48.8

It's time for our predictions.

1:50.1

We fondly call these episodes predictions on steroids because they are fast and furious.

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