What we're thankful for in tech
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🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It doesn't always come naturally to us, as cynical reporters, but every Thanksgiving week on the GeekWire Podcast, it's our tradition to take a step back and take stock of the positive things in technology, business, and science.
This year's installment offers several reminders of the technologies that we might take for granted, gradual advancements that we incorporate into our lives over time, to the point that we suddenly can't remember what we did without them: automated scoring for sports pools among friends; remote printing over the internet; natural language processing; language translation; mobile ticketing; and drone photography; to name a few.
We hear from several readers and listeners about what they're grateful for right now, including robotic process automation, continued advocacy for diversity in tech, and support networks for startup founders.
In a contrarian twist this year, GeekWire's John Cook also talks about some of the silver linings in these cloudy economic times, including a return to more realistic (and potentially realizable) valuations for tech startups. We're also seeing a silver lining in the job market right now, as layoffs open up the market for hiring by smaller companies.
And in an even more contrarian view, John shares why he's thankful for ... Elon Musk! Be sure to listen to his reasoning before getting out your pitchforks.
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| 0:00.0 | Siri does not work for me. |
| 0:02.0 | And I've got my own frustrations with Alexa. |
| 0:04.0 | Maybe we weren't the best duo here to do the, what we're thankful for, our podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | That's right. |
| 0:10.0 | Hashtag not grateful. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Geekwire. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:20.0 | Coming up, it is our annual Thanksgiving episode, a few days after Thanksgiving, John. |
| 0:24.9 | But you and I have been going through our minds and everything that's been happening over the past year in the industry, in technology. |
| 0:32.7 | And we've also solicited some great input from readers and listeners. |
| 0:37.3 | Are you ready for this? Was this a hard |
| 0:38.9 | exercise for you? Somewhat hard. You know, we're always cynical journalists, so we usually |
| 0:44.8 | are not thinking in the positive, but I think we've got a few good ones here. What's top of your |
| 0:49.0 | list of things that you're thankful for in technology, the economy, the industry right now? |
| 0:53.7 | Let's get positive here. One thing I'm thankful for is technology, the economy, the industry right now. Let's get positive here. |
| 0:55.1 | One thing I'm thankful for is the ability to bring people together through community with |
| 1:01.4 | World Cup pools. And you see this with like March Madness, NCAA basketball pools. |
| 1:08.1 | I've gotten into fantasy English premier league soccer. I'm big on that. This is |
| 1:13.8 | probably one of my favorite pastimes. I do it with my son. We have a great time of tracking players |
| 1:19.6 | and following the different games. And so the ability to do this across geographies with everything |
| 1:26.7 | tabulated, everything calculated for you, the leaderboard |
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