The Human Voice with Bob Hutchins

Kendra Jones is a Futurist. 

With a rich history in high-tech strategic operations at Apple, and a strong academic foundation from MIT and the University of Houston, Kendra blends practicality with visionary thinking. Her endeavors span from hosting a futures-centric radio show to leading the Remote Futures Research Lab. Through her consultancy, LAKA,  Kendra embarks on exploring the intersections of technology, human interaction, and the uncharted waters of emerging tech, providing a nuanced perspective on the potential vistas of the future.

We talk about her origin story, her career, media insights, AI, and her personal connection to Marshall McLuhan as a child. 🤯 😀

This was a fascinating interview and one that you will want to listen to!

Alex Kantrowitz is a veteran journalist who's interviewed some of the world’s top CEOs, including Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, and Jack Dorsey. His company, Big Technology, serves more than 100,000 newsletter subscribers and tens of thousands of podcast listeners, delivering accessible news about the tech industry in weekly installments. He's also an on-air contributor at CNBC.

We discuss his journey as a tech journalist, include his time at BuzzFeed. We also discuss lessons learned, the future of tech and innovation, and why messaging apps are on the rise in popularity.

Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc is President of Southern New Hampshire University, the nation's largest nonprofit provider of online higher education. Under his leadership since 2003, SNHU has grown from 2,800 to over 220,000 learners.

He has served as Senior Policy Advisor at the Department of Education and currently serves on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. An immigrant and first-generation college student himself, Dr. LeBlanc holds degrees from Framingham State, Boston College, and UMass. He directed a tech startup for Houghton Mifflin and was President of Marlboro College before coming to SNHU in 2003.

We discuss his new book, Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them . We also talk about technology and artificial intelligence as it affects social systems.

Jon Ricketts is a man of many talents, with a back ground that includes medical devices, aviation, and tech start-ups. He has a knack for innovation and a passion for making life better, one venture at a time. 

We talk about the Ai start-up world, how e-commerce is changing, and how to build a go-to-market team that is creative, unique, and effective. 

Jon holds a Doctor of Law (JD) degree from Lincoln Memorial University and  Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Accounting and Finance 

CJ is a writer and media producer. He leads a messaging & production studio called Reculture and an award-winning kids media project called Ringbeller.

He’s had the privilege of traveling the world speaking to creative professionals at venues like Creative Mornings, TEDx, and STORY.

He’s also the author of the book- Get Weird, Discover the Surprising Secret to Making a Difference

Paul Levinson returns just in time to discuss the release of Robots through the Ages, published by Blackstone Publishing, it includes stories from some of the best writers of science fiction, both old and new. This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature.  Paul's story, Robinson Calculator, is included in this collection.

We talk about the future of AI, should robots have rights, and what does the way we treat our technology say about us.

What if we have been focusing on the wrong things to define what’s ‘human’ and ‘normal’?

What if a shift in the definition of healthy human behavior and how time is best spent can be realized through our technology?

This in no way minimizes or re-frames my concerns that I still have about AI or screen time in general. But several things can be true at the same time, and as a tech optimist, I am hopeful we can find our way forward in better and more beneficial ways.

This is an audio version ( Me Reading) of my recent Substack post. 

https://bobhutchins.substack.com/p/the-possibility-that-our-new-innovations

Karen Kelly has been a Founder, CEO and CMO in industries spanning advertising, healthcare, and technology. She is the former founder of one of Boston’s most profitable media studios and speaks regularly at marketing and entrepreneur conferences nationwide. Most recently, Karen was the President of Tapple, a mobile-first technology platform used to engage consumers and gather first-party data in the physical world. Karen has a strong interest in the intersection of psychology and technology, and the emerging phygital marketplace

Don Donahue and I talk about the genesis of our new Mastermind and Coaching program- Creative Critical Thinking: Problem Solving for the Future .

This is a fascinating discussion with Paul Levinson, an American author, singer-songwriter, and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. His novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into sixteen languages. We discuss his relationship with Marshall McLuhan, time travel, Media Ecology, and why understanding the effects and power of media is so important. 

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Widely known as “Dr. Brian,” is a popular social media influencer, most prominently on TikTok. (3.4 Million Followers) His previous book, Perceptual Intelligence: The Brain’s Secret to Seeing Past Illusion, Misperception, and Self-Deception shook the worlds of neuroscience and psychology, coining the acronym PI for Perceptual Intelligence and educating countless readers on how to better understand the world around them and make better decisions. The medical director of the Boxer Wachler Vision Institute in Beverly Hills and a staff physician at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, he has pioneered medical and surgical treatments that have become industry standard.Dr. Brian is one of only two influencers worldwide to be selected as a member of the Advisory Committee for Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media for the National Academy of Medicine, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, World Health Organization. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their twin teenage daughters, who encouraged him to become a social media influencer. Which he is now with 3.4 million followers on TIK TOK!

Terrance Williams is the Founder of Meta Wellness. The company provides affordable Virtual Reality platforms for mental health professionals to conduct telehealth sessions, group sessions, and training in the metaverse.

You can learn more at https://www.metawellness.space/

Bestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia—and for a more human future
In The Future Is Analog, David Sax points out that the onset of the pandemic instantly gave us the digital universe we'd spent so long anticipating. Instant communication, online shopping, virtual everything. It didn't take long to realize how awful it was to live in this promised future. I discuss this new reality with David and the details of his new book- The Future is Analog. 

David Sax is a writer, reporter, and speaker who specializes in business and culture. His book The Revenge of Analog was a #1 Washington Post bestseller, was selected as one of Michiko Kakutani's Top Ten books of 2016 for the New York Times, and has been translated into six languages. He is also the author of three other books: Save the Deli, which won a James Beard award, The Soul of an Entrepreneur, and The Tastemakers. He lives in Toronto.

Our book is out! Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma, and Path Toward Recovery is up on Amazon.  On this episode my co-author, Jenny Black, reads the introduction.  

If you want to get a copy now, here is the link

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Digital-Soul-Collective-Recovery/dp/B0BK4WYLGB/

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Jeff served as a senior leader for two national healthcare companies (one NYSE, the other privately held) overseeing marketing, internal and external communications, patient experience, growth, and brand development.

He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Possibility Place - a day program that serves intellectually and developmentally disabled adults in Middle Tennessee. Previously, he led an organization that provides dental care to underserved people in Uganda, Haiti, and the United States. He also led an organizational initiative to help build a hospital in Haiti following the earthquake and for two years took teams of clinical volunteers to provide care to underserved Haitians.

Jeff and Annette, his wife of nearly 30 years, have three grown daughters - Madison, McKenzie, and Macie. They live on a small farm on Atwood Lane, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Steve Turney has worked across a range of verticals, including the complex healthcare industry and within full-service marketing agencies, SaaS-based startups and the leading press release distribution firm in the country. He is the Executive Director of the Mental Health Marketing Conference.

Conference: http://www.mhmarketing.org

Dave Elitch first gained notoriety touring with the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta in 2009-2010. Since then he has lent his talents to Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, M83, The 1975, Juliette Lewis, Big Black Delta, and many others. An established LA session player, Dave has performed on various records, syncs, and film scores for major motion pictures, including “Trolls" and “Logan." He also conducts masterclass lectures worldwide and keeps a busy private teaching practice in Los Angeles. Dave has developed a reputation as the technique/body mechanic specialist and has helped many of the industry's top players and educators expand their vocabulary, overcome physical/mental barriers and get out of their own way.

Sloane and I talk about her life journey, being a health care self-advocate, and what it means to watch the evolution of digital media and communication. Sloane is a Vice President at The Freeman Company.

Andrew McLuhan is a grandson of Marshall McLuhan, noted Canadian professor from the University of Toronto who was a pioneer in the field of Media/Communications studies. Andrew’s father, Eric McLuhan, was Marshall’s eldest son, who worked with Marshall from the mid-1960s until Marshall died in 1980.  This is a fascinating conversation about Marshall, Eric, and Andrew's work with the McLuhan Institute.

We discuss media, philosophy, religion, and why the "media is the message".

A former college English teacher, Brian D. McLaren was a pastor for twenty-four years. Now he’s an author, activist, public theologian, and frequent guest lecturer for gatherings in the U.S. and internationally. His work has been covered in TIME Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and many other media outlets. The author of more than 15 books, including Faith After Doubt, Do I Stay Christian?, and A New Kind of Christian, he is a faculty member of The Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation. McLaren lives in Florida.