Episode #489: Technology Trends with Greg Tirico

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In this episode, Ron and Ed welcome back Greg Tirico to delve into the 2024 Tech Trends Report from Future Today Institute, a whopping 980-page behemoth at FutureTodayInstitute.com/trends. The report unveils a groundbreaking concept: the arrival of a technology supercycle, blending AI, biotech, and connected devices to shape a transformative era. Join us as we explore key trends like the burgeoning space race, the bioengineering revolution ushering in a new era of healthcare, the accelerating impact of AI across industries, and the evolution of work environments to embrace flexibility and skill-focused tasks.

Our regular show notes editor was our guest, so, here are some abbreviated show notes:

Overview of the 2024 Tech Trends report from Future Today Institute

• Overall thesis: The economic super cycle comes for technology. The current technology supercycle is so pervasive we may not even notice it.

  • What is a super cycle again? "Super cycles are commonly defined as lengthy periods of economic expansion, often accompanied by growing GDP, strong demand for goods leading to higher prices and high levels of employment.”

• Major factors in the tech supercycle:

  • Artificial intelligence

  • Biotechnology

  • Connected devices

• In and of themselves these trends can be significant but their convergence is what the report is calling out. This is the technology supercycle to which they refer.

About the report

• In our guest’s opinion, this is the best replacement yet for Mary Meeker’s internet trends report (which appears to have ceased publication in 2019)

• 17th edition of the tech trends report

• A ridiculous 980 pages at FutureTodayInstitute.com/trends

  • We are able to talk about and use this material because of the gracious Creative Commons license applied to it by the Future Today Institute. “This material is copyrighted by Future Today Institute and licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).”

• There are 20 total trends in the report. We covered four on the show: Space, Bioengineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Work Environments

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