The Future of Digital Literacy: Will CXOs Have to Talk Tech?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: In a 2017 ISACA survey, only 53% of surveyed business technology professionals believe their organization’s leadership is digitally literate. The other 47% don’t think their leaders have a solid understanding of tech and its impacts or are unsure. (helpnetsecurity.com) Despite better AI, easier app developing, and robots joining the workforce, there’s still a huge disconnect between non-technical CXOs and their tech teams, even in Silicon Valley. If you are a non-techy entrepreneur or CXO, how do you ask for technical solutions or hire engineers if stack, back-end or RAM are gibberish to you? Executives need to develop technical intuition and systems-thinking to be proficient at technical communication and ability, says Aman Agarwal, Sanpram Transnational founder and CEO. We’ll ask Aman, Dr. Sharon Jones, John Lester and Justin Bouldin to predict whether speaking tech will be a basic business requirement on The Future of Digital Literacy: Will CXOs Have to Talk Tech?

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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?
0:16.3	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:30.4	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:34.4	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:35.6	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:37.3	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:42.3	We are broadcasting, live streaming live on Facebook on my technology revolution page and broadcasting audio live on Voice America Business Channel.
0:45.6	Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:47.3	The number of welcomes means the number of guests.
0:50.0	Let me tell you, this is a topic you all want to stick around for today.
0:53.4	Let me give you a little opening.
0:54.6	I have a buzz quote, a little description, and then I'm going to have my four esteemed.
0:58.1	I'm calling them futurists.
0:59.2	They're not just panelists or thought leaders.
1:01.4	They're futurists because we're talking about the future.
1:03.6	So I found an ISACA survey that noted only 53% of surveyed business technology professionals believe their company's
1:13.7	leadership is digitally literate. Let that sink in, digitally literate, knowing how to talk tech,
1:19.5	how to think tech, how to understand tech. The other 47% didn't think their leaders had a solid
1:24.8	understanding of technology and its impacts or that they were
1:27.7	unsure.
1:28.3	I don't think that's too good.
1:29.8	So let's look at the landscape here, despite better AI, are the robots coming?
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