TED SCHILOWITZ - Futurist

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 168 - Ted Schilowitz - Futurist

In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with futurist Ted Schilowitz. Ted has spent his life working in entertainment, from producing commercials in Florida to exploring virtual reality at Fox and Paramount, and we thought his perspective on the relationship between technology and entertainment could help us better understand where we might be headed. Over the course of our conversation, we discover that to think of the future, we need to remember the past, and Ted connects recent developments in technology to a number of breakthroughs he was witness to himself. We learn about Grass Valley—the video equivalent of Silicon Valley—and of the origins of the RED camera system, and Ted reveals Apple's early attempts to bring digital video to their computer systems. We also discuss modern consumer trends and our changing relationships with screens, and we learn about Kodak's missed opportunity in the prehistoric days of digital cameras. Ted later shares his observations on AI, and he makes a prediction of what we'll see over the next five years of cinema.

This episode is sponsored by Sandstorm & Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.7	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:21.4	This episode is sponsored by Sandstorm, the Technodali specialist now based at Ealing Studios in London.
0:30.8	The Technodali is a fully repeatable camera crane and motion control in one, allowing cinematographers to hand craft a shot,
0:39.6	and then repeat it instantly and frame accurately for visual effects.
0:45.2	Find them on Instagram and YouTube at Sandstorm underscore films.
0:54.1	This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm. films.
1:02.3	This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT52, the industry's most powerful LED point source light.
1:04.8	Brighter than a 6K HMI empowered by Aperture's revolutionary Blair light engine, the Storm XT-52 is both a tunable
1:14.2	white light and also the brightest ever adjustable color LED. Storm XT-52, unrivaled output,
1:23.8	only from Aperture.
1:30.1	Today, we're looking into the future.
1:35.1	We're speaking with a futurist who currently works with Paramount Global.
1:40.7	Prior to Paramount, he was the futurist with 20th century Fox and worked with them on VR experiences.
1:42.2	He also was an integral part of the development team of the red camera.
1:47.3	We're looking forward to peering into the future with Ted Shilowitz.
1:51.6	Ted, thank you for doing this.
1:53.7	It's a pleasure to be spending time with you.
1:56.4	I just did an hour of another podcast.
1:59.3	We do a weekly technology podcast called the AIXR podcast,
2:03.3	so it'll be relevant to the point about my background. I've been now retired from Paramount
2:09.9	for a little over a year, so exploring new things in new ways with my sort of futurist background,
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