Tom Goodwin: We Are Addicted to New Technology

Why are humans so addicted to new technology? We race to embrace that latest technological development even when it makes a task more difficult. We ignore the inefficiency we just created whilst marvelling at our engineering prowess!

Tom Goodwin points out and corrects these errors in judgement in his work as a consultant, speaker, author and presenter to organisations where the C Suite are at risk of burning resources on adolescent implementations of technology. In a way it's understandable because being more outlandish is the only way futurists and technologists gain enough attention and they have captured boardrooms of companies everywhere.

Tom has a foundational belief of 'human first' and in this discussion we explored:

• The attraction of technological hyperbole
• Media is geared for attention seeking and outrage
• Commonwealth countries resist following the USA into divisive politics
• The road-centric society
• When a technology succeeds too rapidly
• Techno geeks and their brains that took over the world
• Building empathy into technology
• Restaurants that ruin themselves with technology
• Covid-19 excuses in call centres
• Are cryptocurrencies just technological indulgences?
• Elon Musk's enormous ego and dedication to free speech
• Twitter is not a traditional 'public square'
• The New Normal
• The pandemic lasted for different lengths of time for different people
• Questioning reality - are we all just Sims?
• The importance of working in an office (not from home)
• Fashionable 'tolerance'
• Beauty, difference and class structures

Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/tom-goodwin-we-are-addicted-to-new-technology

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TOM GOODWIN

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