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Seven Red Lines (aka “The Expert”): The Transcript

Cast: CUSTOMER C1 (“Customer 1st speaker”) – The customer lead, Justine’s boss Justine – Design specialist at the customer VENDOR V1 (“Vendor 1st speaker”) – The vendor lead, Walter and Anderson the...

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Fraud in Industrial Technologies

Go on, take the money and run. GigaOm’s article on green energy snake oil highlights the challenges faced by investors in any industrial technology.  We’re not investors, but over the past six years of...

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DTNS 2397: Tech Forecasting for 2015 (1 of 7)

In the value-for-value world of DTNS, Patreon and Tom Merrit – I might not be the best contributor.  Trying to think of ways to give back, I listened to the 2015 forecast show, DTNS 2397, that was...

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Tech Forecasting: Comments on 6 Years of Forecasts (3 of 7)

Perfect forecast = Widespread Uber acceptance Over six years of prediction shows, when the hosts were right, they were very right.  When they were wrong, it was usually because they were too early or...

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Technology Forecasting and Predictions: 2016 (7 of 7)

DTNS’s 2016 prediction show, #2657, was published on December 31, 2015 and along with the diverse group of hosts, there was a broad range of predictions in many areas. Virtual reality dominated from an...

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The World Economic Forum’s ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies’

From the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Nanosensors!  Autonomous vehicles! [Yawn.]  We’ve seen these before. Organs-on-chips? Optogenetics?!?  Now this is interesting. The Davos-based World...

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Under Bidding a Bridge to Nowhere

Bridge between North Korea and Dandong, China in disrepair following the Korean war. [Source: Huseyin’s flickr photostream, used under a creative commons license.]If a customer isn’t 100% certain about...

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“What does it take to be (a good) CEO?” Answer: People

All of the successes were from bringing in good people, helping them frame problems and getting them the tools they needed to be successful. The failures? They were mine – mostly due to not properly...

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Apple’s Watch – Offense or Defense?

Amazon is loaded with hundreds of inexpensive fitness trackers. Apple’s watch is the future of the company.  The watch will shrink in size, radio quality will improve, capabilities will grow and...

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5,000,000 Youtube Views for ‘Filtration’– Tough Concepts the #1 Video Gets Right

Grant Thompson’s Youtube channel has over 11 million subscribers (as of June 2019) and his top video covering ‘Lego Gummy Candy’ has over 33 million views.  As ‘The King of Random‘ the channel...

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