{"id":14144,"date":"2018-01-24T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T09:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2018-01-24T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T09:31:31","slug":"it-trends-2018-19-impacts-on-your-business-and-personal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/it-trends-2018-19-impacts-on-your-business-and-personal-life.html","title":{"rendered":"IT Trends 2018-19: Impacts on Your Business and Personal Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I took part\u00a0in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceamerica.com\/episode\/104720\/it-trends-2018-19-impacts-on-your-business-and-personal-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Future of the Future&#8221; episode<\/a> of the Coffee Break with Game Changers series of podcasts with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bdgraham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bonnie D. Graham<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We discussed how important IT trends \u2013 Blockchain, AI, Machine Learning, IoT \u2013 are coming of age in 2018-19, individually and collectively disrupting every industry &#8212; you can listen to the show below, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.voiceamerica.com\/business\/011637\/sapfuturefuture011618.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download the audio file<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/future-future-game-changers\/id1079026357?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to the podcast series on itunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><video src=\"https:\/\/cdn.voiceamerica.com\/business\/011637\/sapfuturefuture011618.mp3\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.voiceamerica.com\/content\/images\/host_images\/011637\/SAPFutureFuture-player-wide.jpg\" preload=\"none\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"574\" height=\"320\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging discussion, we covered themes such as whether blockchain will help make the world a more egalitarian place, the role of data privacy and data sovereignty, what skills employees will need in the future faced with artificial intelligence, and how everything is becoming &#8220;self-driving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The panelists and\u00a0our chosen illustrative quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timoelliott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timo Elliott, SAP<\/a>: <em>\u201cAnything you can do, I (AI) can do better&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n(a play on the song by Irving Berlin, from Annie Get Your Gun).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/grayscott1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gray Scott, Futurist:<\/a> <em>\u201cNothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement\u201d<\/em> (Terence McKenna).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/paullewiscto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Lewis, Hitachi Americas<\/a>: <em>\u201cYou can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality\u201d<\/em> (Walt Disney).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Listen to the podcast to hear more! What big themes do you think we missed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;future of the future&#8221; podcast episode with me, futurist Gray Scott and Paul Lewis of Hitachi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[509,823,1085],"class_list":["post-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-future","tag-podcast","tag-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SAPFutureFuture-player-wide.jpg?fit=575%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3G8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}