Taking Red Pen to Past Predictions
We are in a golden age for technology industry prediction articles. A Google search for “2023 tech industry predictions” finds 212 million results. Turn to just about any mainstream technology or business publication and you’ll see a recent piece compiling commentary from glamourous lists of CEOs and innovators. Setting aside the obvious technological advancements in […]
Quick Brown Foxes, Lazy Dogs, and a Properly Produced Story
If you attended school taught primarily in English, you’ve likely heard this sentence before: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This sentence is famous for the story behind it, but that story is not about the fox or the dog or the dynamics between wild and domesticated animals. The story is about […]
To Keep Growing, Pro AV Needs to Stop Graying
Fresh off his first InfoComm, Caster’s Robert Simms realizes Pro AV needs to stop graying if it wants to keep growing CNN journalist Harry Enten wrote the following passage in early April as the baseball season kicked off: “When my father, born in 1927, was my age, Opening Day was one of the biggest events […]
An Autopsy of Incorrect Tech Predictions
But What if We’re Wrong?, a book by author and former New York Times Magazine essayist Chuck Klosterman, advocates for looking at the present as if it were the past. The impetus for such an exercise is that throughout history, humans have repeatedly had extreme confidence in beliefs, predictions, or “truisms” that time eventually proves […]
Building a Healthy Hybrid Culture
When hiring remote team members without ever having met physically, it can be a challenge to build a healthy hybrid culture. So much of a company’s social fabric is woven in-person and videoconferencing, though it has improved leaps and bounds in the last 18 months, still leaves a lot of “interpersonal osmosis” to be desired. […]