Sci-Fi, AI, Wi-Fi: What's the Story?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz: "Don't annoy science fiction writers…people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you" (John Scalzi). Think a beach day with a sci-fi page-turner is an escape from reality? Not! Sci-fi could prepare us for the possibilities of tomorrow hurtling at us via tech advances like AI, robotics, IoT. Should it be mandatory reading for business leaders? The experts speak. Gray Scott, Futurist: "Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not" (Isaac Asimov). Brenda J. Cooper, Sci-Fi Author: "Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on" (David Brin). Dan Wellers, SAP: "For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects. (Gene Roddenberry). Join us for Sci-Fi, AI, Wi-Fi: What's the Story?

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0:45.1	Welcome. Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
0:48.9	This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.
0:51.4	The best run business is run SAP.
0:54.2	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.
0:58.5	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.
1:02.2	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
1:04.6	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
1:06.1	If you want to run with the game changers, you are in the right place.
1:09.6	I always say it.
1:12.2	I mean it. We think it's absolutely true. Oh my, let's see what the buzz on the street is here today. Well, I have some
1:17.9	important words of warning for all of you out there listening around the world. I'm quoting
1:22.8	John Scalzi, an author and former president of the science fiction and fantasy writers of America.
1:29.1	That gives you a clue. He says, here's a quick rule of thumb. Don't annoy science fiction
1:34.9	writers. These are the people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do
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