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Will A.I. Steal Your Job?

September 22, 2021 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

The hype around technology moves faster than the technology itself. Perhaps your job is doomed, at least the job you have today, but you have time to move along to something new. Maybe something even better?

Filed Under: Forecasting | Trends, Technology and Culture, Worky Worky

Unintended Consequences

September 15, 2021 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Our great leaps in humanity never land us softly in Utopia.  We land hard, and when we wipe the dust from our eyes, we see new problems that we could’ve never imagined.  You don’t have to look far for examples. All recent technologies have already revealed unintended consequences. Social networks have allowed us to connect […]

Filed Under: Technology and Culture

Electrification and the New Golden Age of Automobile Design

September 8, 2021 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Designers of electric vehicles aren’t obligated to round off every corner to reduce drag. Designers can carve vehicles with confidence and audacity. Proof? The ridiculous Cybertruck from Tesla.

Filed Under: Design, Forecasting | Trends, Technology and Culture

No Title will Suffice

May 10, 2021 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Smith HOUSE Patterned Backgrounds Dark Blue

This was going to be a blog summarizing what we’ve been up to since the pandemic upended life as we know it. For anyone keeping score, it’s been 14 months and only one blog post to our website. In fact, this is my fifth attempt to write this blog. The other four blogs are still […]

Filed Under: Technology and Culture, Worky Worky

2020* ← Let’s Talk about that Big Fat Asterisk

August 25, 2020 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

I would like to suggest that we always write the year “2020” with an asterisk. Every email, every social media post, any reference to this calendar year deserves a big fat asterisk. Go ahead, try it. It feels good to put that asterisk at the end, and offer no explanation: 2020*  It feels good because […]

Filed Under: Technology and Culture

If You Love Art, You Should Hate the Art World

December 12, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

The $120,000 Art Basel Banana

In case you missed it, earlier this week a rich fool paid $120,000 at an art auction for a banana taped to a wall. A few days later, an attention-starved “performance artist” invaded the gallery, and ate the expensive banana. The winning bidder refused to pay for an eaten banana. Then someone else bid again […]

Filed Under: Design

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