Your Great Idea: The Future of Inventors, Inventing & Technology!

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: “In the 19th century, inventors were heroes … Their ideas helped drag humanity from agrarian poverty to manufactured plenty. These days, though, inventor-superstars, while not absent, are fewer and farther between.” [economist.com] The Buzz 2: “While we've had our fair share of inventive breakthroughs in the past that have changed the world, the dazzling and world-shaking inventions of the future will change the world in even stranger and greater ways.” [bigthink.com] The Buzz 3: “There’s a way to do it better … find it.” [Thomas A. Edison] The Buzz 4: Professor Philip Brainard [played by Robin Williams in Flubber, 1997 American sci-fi comedy], a mad scientist developing a new energy source to save his college from closure, accidentally creates a sentient green goo substance with enormous elasticity and kinetic energy that bounces and is difficult to control. His robot assistant Weebo classifies it as flying rubber” aka Flubber. We’ll ask modern inventors Veronica Vargas, Pat Daily, Tammie Sykes and Carol Novello for their take on Your Great Idea: The Future of Inventors, Inventing and Technology.

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:15.9	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:27.1	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now. Here's your host who will take us into the future
0:33.2	of now. Bonnie D. Graham. I never remember which way I say is the future, so I end up just going in all directions,
0:40.0	but it's out there somewhere.
0:41.1	Bonnie D. in the house, happy to be here.
0:43.2	We're talking about a very interesting topic.
0:45.7	I've met most of these people.
0:47.2	One is a newcomer to the show, and I can't wait to get started.
0:49.9	First, I want my guest to please wave hello. I'm seeing myself, there's a delay on LinkedIn on the feed,
0:55.5	but I want you to wave hello to LinkedIn, wave hello to Facebook. I got to find Facebook and turn
1:00.3	off the captions. I'll do that in a minute and wave virtually hello to the audience around the
1:05.3	world listening to us on the Voice America Business Channel. Pat, you did that very, very well.
1:09.7	It's a nice virtual audio wave.
1:11.3	There we go. So our topic today, I think you all wake up at one time or another. I'm talking to
1:16.3	my audience around the world. You say, I have a great idea. I have this really cool idea.
1:20.9	I'm going to start something. I'm going to invent something. I'm going to create something.
1:24.4	I'm going to be the one who's famous for and people are going to be grateful or are they're going to create something. I'm going to be the one who's famous for and people are going to be
1:28.4	grateful or they're going to be smarter or they're going to be healthier or they're going to be
1:32.6	funnier or whatever it is. You're going to find an idea. You've got it and you're going to make it happen.
1:37.8	Well, my panel today is going to talk about what it's like to make that idea happen, because they all have in some way, shape, or form.
1:44.7	So let me start with my usual buzz opening, and let's do a couple buzz quotes to set the stage here,
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