The Future of Professional Women & Creativity: Impossible Dream?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Buzz 1: “The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” [Albert Einstein] The Buzz 2: “At first glance, the words “science” and “creativity” might not seem like natural companions.…. But…the greatest scientific discoveries in history were born out of creative curiosity, and a desire to do things differently.” [Creativity in STEM – a contradiction in terms? Not for Europe’s girls!”, news.microsoft.com] The Buzz 3: “…I want to tell the young generation that the fields of STEM are innovative, inventive and visionary; all of which takes a lot of creativity…” [Shweta Agarwala] The Buzz 4: “How many of us use the term creative to describe a person who is good at math? But new research calls that perception into question, finding that the same amazing human creativity is at the root of both.” [Alison Escalante] We’ll ask creative professional women and novelists Leslie Wheeler, BJ Magnani, PhD, MD, S. Lee Manning and Ursula Wong for their take on The Future of Professional Women, Creativity and Technology: The Impossible Dream?”

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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?
0:16.4	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.
0:35.7	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now. Bonnie D. Graham.
0:39.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Bonnie in the house, happy to be here,
0:45.3	and we're not necessarily talking about tech-driven trends. We're talking about women in STEM-driven trends, which has a background in tech, the idea of STEM, and these ladies do. So let's get
0:51.8	started. By the way, our topic today is the future of professional
0:54.7	women, creativity and technology. The Impossible Dream? Some people may say yes. So I have four
1:01.1	buzz quotes. I found so many interesting topics online about what we're talking about today.
1:06.4	So quote number one, Albert Einstein. This is a real Einstein quote, by the way. I use quote
1:11.3	investigator. This is one of the ones he really said. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
1:18.2	Just let that sink in. You can use that anywhere.
1:20.6	Quote number two, this is an article in news.microsoft.com. At first glance, the word science
1:26.9	and creativity might not seem like natural
1:29.6	companions. Many view the precision, critical thinking, and data-driven methods applied in the
1:34.5	fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, STAM, that STEM, at being at odds with creative
1:40.7	instincts. But in fact, the greatest scientific discoveries in history were
1:44.6	born out of creative curiosity.
1:47.1	On my panel, I want you to remember that, creative curiosity, and a desire to do things differently,
1:52.3	and you all have been doing that.
1:53.8	Buzz number three is from an author named Schwetta Agarwalha on her LinkedIn page, LinkedIn
2:00.5	slash pulse and et cetera, et cetera.
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