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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

The State of Innovation 2018: Fluff vs. Fact

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9108 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: "I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore. What is reality? Nothing but a collective hunch" (Lily Tomlin). Welcome to the Digital Era, where new technology terminology, hype and interpretations bombard us daily at work and at home. What do IoT, ML, Big Data, and Blockchain really mean? How will they impact your organization, customers, business partners, and lifestyle? The experts speak. Tom Raftery, SAP: "When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain…" (N. Tesla). Dion Hinchcliffe, Constellation Research: "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us" (J. Campbell). Tamara McCleary, Thulium: "It's never too late to be what you might have been" (G. Eliot). Jim Harris, Management Consultant: "… the unreasonable [man] persists in trying to adapt the world to himself…all progress depends on the unreasonable man" (G.B. Shaw). Join us for The State of Innovation 2018: Fluff vs. Fact.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

0:13.2

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

0:17.2

The best run business is run SAP.

0:19.8

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

0:22.2

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.

0:30.1

Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

0:32.5

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

0:34.7

That's four. That's a clue.

0:36.1

If you want to run with the game changers, you are absolutely in the right place.

0:39.9

Have we got a show for you today?

0:41.8

Let me see what the buzz on the street is.

0:43.9

Oh, I have a quote from Lily Tomlin.

0:46.2

You know who she is?

0:47.4

She has said, I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore.

0:52.1

What is reality?

0:53.3

Nothing but a collective hunch. And the key word in there,

0:56.3

the one is reality, the other word is hunch. So welcome to the digital era where new technology

1:02.8

terminology and hype and interpretations are bombarding us every minute of every day when we're

1:08.6

working, when we're playing, when we're at home, wherever we are. Think about collective hunch. Maybe you have a hunch what it means. Maybe you

1:16.1

don't. If you're looking into a hot, swirling bowl of alphabet soup, you might see IOT, ML, AI, big data,

1:24.2

and you might even see the letters that spell out blockchain. Oh, my. What do they mean?

1:29.8

How will they impact your company, your customers, your business partners, your everyday lifestyle?

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