Robin Raskin - Founder - Living In Digital Times (LIDT)
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Robin Raskin is the founder of Living in Digital Times (LIDT), a team of technophiles who bring together top experts and the latest innovations to look at the intersection of lifestyle and technology. LIDT produces a number of notable conferences and expos at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) and at conferences and events worldwide. The company's trademark events include The Last Gadget Standing, Digital Health Summit, FashionWare, Fitness Tech Summit, Kids@Play Summit, The Digital Money Forum and others.
In a previous lifetime, Raskin honed her tech chops at a variety of technology publications. She was editor of PC Magazine and began FamilyPC and YahooTech!. Author of 6 books, magazine publisher, blogger, TV and radio personality, Raskin has been at the forefront of an ever-changing topic: what it means to be digital. She lives in NYC and the Hudson Valley, with her husband, her three drops in now and then children, and closets full of obsolete technology.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:31.6 | Julian Lamar and joining me today is Robin |
| 0:34.9 | Raskin. She is a technology journalist and now she has a wonderful company called |
| 0:40.5 | living in the digital times and she is a wealth of information. |
| 0:44.0 | We are so excited to have her join us here today. |
| 0:46.8 | Welcome Robin. |
| 0:47.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:49.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:50.5 | I've seen this rodeo before, right? |
| 0:54.0 | Wonderful. Why don't you give our listeners just a little background information about yourself? |
| 1:00.0 | You know, give us some insight to your journey. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, it's kind of humorous. |
| 1:04.0 | So, literally, the first story I ever wrote about technology was called |
| 1:08.0 | how I learned about computers to save our marriage, |
| 1:11.0 | and the computer was the computer was a Unix terminal and yet and it was |
| 1:19.8 | connected to a college at university and I had to dial in and at any |
| 1:24.4 | the point was that I wrote this column where I said I don't know about the rest of |
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