Futurology

Answering What’s The Future by exploring digital’s future impact. Every week the Futurology team explores the "Future of _______” with people that are doing - and not just talking - the future, right now. As the Futurology team, your hosts bring a diverse thought process based in a diverse and collective experience - they are... Brett Lindsay (B2), the Digital Philosopher and Engaging Content Specialist, strives to find solutions to unique problems by consulting to companies, in order to make the most effective use of new technology to enhance the way they do business through the power of engaging digital solutions. Brett St Clair (B3), the Ex Googler, turned digital banker and African Digital Disrupter, who loves being part of Africa's greatness by focusing on disrupting the status quo and accelerating growth through the frenetic buzz of developing exponential businesses. Michael Cowen, the Digital Renegade, an ex Agency, turned exDigital Management Consultant who builds sustainable digital solutions to solve real human problems. Every Wednesday from 12:00 - 13:00 the Futurology show digs into the tech, the trends and digital transformations that are happening and will change how we live, work and engage as people and as businesses. #thefutureiscoming
Weekly English South Africa Technology
114 Episodes
64 – 84

A Technophile's Buffet

The Bretts dust off the beach sand, compare suntans, and then look at all the cool happenings of CES - it's a technophile's buffet!
11 Jan 2017 53 min

2016 into 2017

The Bretts end the year off with a BANG (well, actually a threesome) as Brett St Clair (B3 Bomber) is back in the studio. They look at back 2016 and peek round the corner at 2017. It doesn't take long for things to go "there" quickly!
21 Dec 2016 1 hour

2017: The Year of Engagement

Besides the usual updates and app chat, B1 picks up on B2’s call of 2017 being the Year of Engagement last week, by chatting to Aryeh Sternberg via Skype about Intent Marketing and what it actually means for customers and engagement.
14 Dec 2016 54 min

The Most Awesome Show of The Year

B1 & B2 take stock of 2016, the year of innovation that has passed, they review some gadgets that are available for the festive season and predict what 2017 will hold, as the age of experience dawns!
7 Dec 2016 54 min

Black Friday & Cyber Monday

The Bretts have a look at Black Friday, Cyber Monday and then chat to Heinrich Botes from Xero accounting.
30 Nov 2016 55 min

Connectivity: From Africa to the World

The Bretts chat about AfricanCOM and TV Connect in Cape Town... and then talk to Reshaad Sha, Chief Strategy Officer at Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) about the roll-out of the first Sigvox network in SA.
23 Nov 2016 51 min

The Transporter

Brett Levy talks tech, AR and other cool digital stuff. Then Kobus van der Westhuizen, MD of We Quote, pops in to chat about SnapCart.
16 Nov 2016 59 min

How to Defeat Online Evil Nasties

The Bretts chat to Candice Sutherland, affectionately nicknamed 'Doctress Doom' about the latest updates in the industry on Cybercrime, Ransomware, DDOS and general naughty people online.
9 Nov 2016 56 min

Connecting with Customers through Technology

Brett Levy talks to Aryeh Sternberg, an American who lives in Australia and is the Co-Founder of Prime Variable. They discuss what really matters in making deeper connections with customers through technology. Aryeh also has strong thoughts and opinions on the upcoming US election.
2 Nov 2016 56 min

Futurology - MTN App of the Year

The Bretts chat to Thato and Berno - co-founders of Domestly - the MTN App of the Year winners about their app and recent trip to Silicon Valley.
26 Oct 2016 55 min

Futurology - The Future of Storytelling

The Bretts talk about the future of storytelling in a digital age of experience, after their recent visit to New York for the Future Of Storytelling #FostSummit. Their guest is Wayne Flemming from Brand Truth, a team of storytellers, filmmakers and experience architects.
19 Oct 2016 56 min

Futurology - Tech Round-up

With so much happening lately and all the new products and features coming soon, the Bretts do a tech round-up of the current landscape and what to look out for in the future... with some quality time spent on VR too.
12 Oct 2016 57 min

Futurology - Ryan Beech

The Bretts talk to Ryan Beech from Ryonic Robotics. Yes we're talking robots... enough said!
5 Oct 2016 51 min

Futurology - Gartner Aspiring Innovators: Tuse

The Bretts chat to the last of the Gartner Aspiring Innovators, Sabelo Sibanda from Tuse. Tuse is an enterprise mobility app that allows for secure voice and video calls to people, with or without the app.
21 Sep 2016 55 min

Futurology - Gartner Aspiring Innovators: Kriterion

Brett is joined by Mike Cowen as a guest co-host and they chat to Obodoekwe Chukwudi from Kriterion. Kriterion aims to simplify and improve the effectiveness of Tender procurement by handling every process of the tender system, minimising the human factor and allowing a computer to give analytic, unbiased results.
14 Sep 2016 53 min

Futurology - Gartner Aspiring Innovators: Impression Signatures

The Bretts talk to Andrew Papastefanou on the Gartner Aspiring Innovators series. Andrew speaks about Impression Signatures, a secure digital document delivery and signature platform where customers are able to push documents directly to their end-users' devices where they can be reviewed, signed and returned.
7 Sep 2016 51 min

Futurology - Gartner Aspiring Innovators: Invoke Solutions

The Bretts talk to Nthekgo Moroaswi from Invoke Solutions in the third part of the Gartner Aspiring Innovators series. Invoke Solutions is an innovative IT solutions provider that helps organisations unleash the power of information to help increase profitability through the use of technology.
29 Aug 2016 54 min

Futurology - Gartner Aspiring Innovators: Provulo

The Bretts chat to Simon Hudson from Provulo in the second of the Gartner Aspiring Innovators series. Provulo designs, develops and hosts services that replace manual, inefficient, people, pen, paper and email intensive processes with automated tools that are independent, auditable and available wherever business needs to take place.
22 Aug 2016 53 min
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