Maturity Curve Podcast: Recent Episodes
Fernando Nikolic
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A collection of big ideas from multiple disciplines, helping you discover new interests and connections across disciplines.
The goal of this channel is simple: Go to bed each night smarter than when you woke up.
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To characterize machine learning and creativity as being somehow opposite to creativity is to misunderstand how machine learning can impact creativity. In this episode, I'll dispel some AI myths.
Why will the business environment of the 2020s be more volatile and economic swings more extreme?
By the end of the 2020s, automation may eliminate 20% to 25% of current jobs, hitting middle- to low-income workers the hardest. As investments peak and then decline—probably around the end of the 2020s to the start of the 2030s—anemic demand growth is likely to constrain economic expansion, and global interest rates may again test zero percent.
Faced with market imbalances and growth-stifling levels of inequality, many societies may reset the government's role in the marketplace.
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When you read about economics, you quickly learn the economy doesn’t care about your feelings, nor what you express in public. The forces that drive it are beyond any one person’s comprehension, much less control.
But at the same time, the economy doesn’t work like a law of nature. Unlike gravity, for instance, the economy responds to human choices and preferences. We influence it, yes - but we don’t understand exactly how.
Bangladesh is quickly moving to a high-value, knowledge-intensive society, beyond apparel manufacturing. So what is this quiet transformation where Bangladesh opens its doors through becoming more innovative and adopting technology? More on this on this episode of Maturity Curve.
Rapidly improving prospecting tools and AI will change the BDR landscape, but predictions about the end of the BDR are incorrect. Over the last handful of years, coinciding with the collective rise in all things Artificial Intelligence, blog posts, and podcast topics predicting the “end of the BDR” have grown louder and more frequent.
Like every profession, the BDR role has experienced consistent change since it cemented its place on sales floors in the early 2000s. But that change hasn’t resulted in a wholesale diminished BDR corps – this critical sales role hasn’t gone anywhere.
Listen in to learn more.
It's an interesting paradox that some futurists are keen on seeing all kinds of technological advances happening in 2020, but at the same time promoting anti-capitalism. How can they call for another system, when that system is the only system that promotes innovation and rewards inventors? In this episode of the Maturity Curve podcast, I explain why techocapitalism is the only direction for 2020, if we are expected to continue this marvellous growth which ultimately benefits society as a whole. #technocapitalism #technocapitalist
A great sense of determination and urgency among Chinese businesses and companies in the field: Either adapt the fast-evolving technology of AI, big data analysis and computer chips to upgrade – or be destroyed.
Wouldn't you agree to this:
Increasingly rapid innovation in medicine, education, means of transport, data storage, and communication have contributed to a general improvement in living standards.
Easy to agree upon, right?
Still, from time to time this successful narrative is hit hard by noisy worries about the “job-destroying effect of automation” — a notion that remains lodged in the minds of way too many people.
In this episode, I try to shed some light on these points to shake off the today's prevalent pessimism and replace it with realism about the role technology plays in our lives, notably in the labor market.
Innovation is actually thriving at all stages of infrastructure development. Exciting new ideas are being generated around the world and have the potential to change the field.
The technological transformation sweeping the rest of society is indeed primed to revolutionize infrastructure. However, decision-makers, for a variety of reasons, are still hesitant to create the kind of enabling environment necessary for widespread embrace of these emerging technologies.
Why will the business environment of the 2020s be more volatile and economic swings more extreme?
By the end of the 2020s, automation may eliminate 20% to 25% of current jobs, hitting middle- to low-income workers the hardest. As investments peak and then decline—probably around the end of the 2020s to the start of the 2030s—anemic demand growth is likely to constrain economic expansion, and global interest rates may again test zero percent.
Faced with market imbalances and growth-stifling levels of inequality, many societies may reset the government's role in the marketplace.
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fernikolic