29: Why Tech & Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Need Anthropologists With Brian Solis, Altimeter Group [Main T4C Episode]

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Brian Solis left college before graduating so that he could pursue his passion. He chose to combine two of his biggest interests into a profession: technological advancements and their influences. Brian is a Digital Analyst and Digital Anthropologist.  He studies the trajectory of disruptive technologies and evaluates how they will affect humans and their businesses. He has written numerous books on the subject to educate people about its advancements. Most recently he wrote: X: The Experience When Business Meets Design.  As Brian shares in this episode, there will hopefully always be jobs in robot training and programming, so that as the robots take over more jobs like driving cars, they can do so smoothly. And he features even more incredible information on his blog, which can be found here.  

*Brian began a new position in March 2020 as a Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: 

• How businesses across all industries and technology actually work hand-in-hand (1:29)
• What is the role of anthropology in the fields of technology and artificial intelligence (2:47)
• What Digital Darwinism is and why you should care (7:09)
• How to get on the right professional path to leverage all the changes that are well underway (7:51)
• What skills you’ll need to thrive as tech expands into more and more industries (13:53)
• Why you may be inadvertently training your brain to work in the “shallows” (24:39)
• How your relationship with social media and technology is affecting your ability to focus (27:18)

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