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 […]
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 […]
There’s no place like home
As 2021 is coming to an end, I am reflecting on the blur that was trying to find a job during a pandemic, graduating over zoom, and in the heat of it all, jumping into the unknown: TECH! Throughout this process, I learned there is no place like home. When I was 17 years old, […]
Tech’s Diversity Issues Need Community-Based Solutions
The lack of diversity in STEM fields is a problem – not just for underrepresented communities, but for the industry itself. Homogenous groups of scientists do less influential science. Less diverse design teams are less creative. The unconscious bias of coders becomes the unconscious bias of code: which in turn, becomes a PR nightmare for […]
A Note from Caster’s New Vice President
I was a Medieval and Renaissance Studies major, and now I’m joining one of the best technology PR firms in the country. It’s a funny old world, innit? This move is not out of nowhere. I’ve spent the last decade plus at AVIXA, the world’s leading professional audiovisual trade association and professional society. I thought […]