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Episode 46: The Endgame: Technology and Organizations
This episode carries on the thinking for what the endgame might look like for technology and organizations. There are seeds already planted that will certainly grow over the next 100 years and may…
Episode 45: The Endgame: Technology and Society.
This podcast kicks off the next series about the Endgame of Digital Transformation. The next four podcasts will postulate what the future may look like when technology is “done” transforming four…
Episode 44: Digital Transformation: A New Definition
There are many CEO’s and CIO’s who cringe the moment someone says the phrase “digital transformation.” Unfortunately, the concept was hijacked by consultants and advisors for a decade and became way…
Episode 43: Digital Wellbeing: A New Definition
Maybe one of the more important podcasts in this series, the topic of Digital Wellbeing. A growing problem in the world is our many hours spent interfacing with digital tools, whether at work, or in…
Episode 42: Transhumanism (H+): A Better Definition
This is one of Scott’s favorite topics! He has been studying and talking about transhumanism for over a decade and it is time to take this concept more mainstream so we can prepare for the outcome.…
Episode 41: The Singularity: A Better Definition
This is one of Scott’s favorite topics! He has been studying and talking about transhumanism for over a decade and it is time to take this concept more mainstream so we can prepare for the outcome.…
Episode 40: Synthetic Intelligence: A Better Definition
Scott starts a new series that is all about finding better definitions for important words we use in the technology field. Too many times words are used that many people really do not understand. In…
Episode 39: Artificial Intelligence: Digital Freedom or Slavery
This is an interstitial podcast between two series. There is so much talk about whether AI is good or bad and those words do not do justice to the complexity of that debate. Scott looks at one…
Episode 38: Digital Amplification: The Big Picture Human Impact
Like the story of the fish that do not have a sense that they live in the water because it always all around them, humanity is being impacted by the amplification of technology. For those of us…
Episode 37: Digital Amplification: Hybrid Intelligence
Like the story of the fish that do not have a sense that they live in the water because it always all around them, humanity is being impacted by the amplification of technology. For those of us…
Episode 36: The Digital Amplification of Physical Capabilities
There are two central ways humans will amplify themselves. This podcast deals with the first which is physically improving our capabilities. We were all born with natural bodies. Some of these bodies…
Episode 35: Amplified Humanity: Past and Future
Human beings are always looking for an edge or improvement. In a lot of ways, we are achievement junkies who never stop figuring out how to amplify our capabilities. A competitive world drives us…
Episode 34: Machine Intelligence: When Digital Minds Wake Up
What is the human mind in relationship to our brain? What is a machine mind going to look like? How do humans decide on their next best word or action and how does an LLM do the same? At what point…
Episode 33: Technology: Blessing or Poison
In the final podcast in the Digital Philosophy series, Scott examines whether technology will ultimately help or hurt the human race. This requires us to understand the recipe of digital interaction…
Episode 32: The AI World in Our Own Image
What if we stopped using humanity as the high bar we seek when building AI’s and robots? A philosophy to explore is the need to let go of the belief that building AI’s “as smart as us” is the right…
Episode 31: Podcast 31 Digital Intelligence, Consciousness, and Neo Philosophy
Philosophy is thousands of years old and for all that time, it has been the study of finding truth in a world populated by humans as the only thinking entities. AI’s and synthetic intelligence are…
Episode 30: Finding Happiness and Meaning in a Digital World
Why digital philosophy and not digital science? Because science struggles to answer some questions that have lots of humanity baked into them. Because the meaning of words sometimes fail us with…
Episode 29: The Story of Humankind: Social and Digital Transformation
This podcast is an important concept that sets the foundation for the new series coming next – Digital Philosophy. Scott shares the concept that the generations alive today are struggling with a lack…
Episode 28: The Truth Score: Quantifying Digital Content
Most everyone understands that a large amount of content on the Internet is not true. This is posted by people and organizations who have a specific reason to lie and mislead, or can be posted by…
Episode 27: The Digital Quantification of the American Worker
Organizations are using more technology and data to measure job candidates and workers. This dynamic was kickstarted during the pandemic when workers were forced to work from home for an extended…
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Digital Optimist has published 47 episodes since August 2019, covering topics in Business, Philosophy.
Digital Optimist is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 29m.
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