Tom Goodwin

Tom Goodwin Contributor Share on X Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast. More posts by this contributor 7 things to think about voice Social media, politics, and the bubble of distraction

Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast.

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7 things to think about voice

Voice won't change everything but it will be part of a movement that heralds a new way to think about our relationship with devices, screens, our data and interactions.

Social media, politics, and the bubble of distraction

When the President changes our country so drastically, will we have a new concept of what’s normal? If our social media feeds consist of people who think just like us, how can we expect social c

Patterns, Predictability, and the Rise of Donald Trump 

Tom Goodwin Contributor Share on X Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast. More posts by this

Andrew Yang is running for President to save America from the robots

Tom Goodwin Contributor Share on X Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast. More posts by this

The battle for consumers gets physical (instead of virtual)

The world’s largest taxi firm, Uber, is buying cars. The world’s most popular media company, Facebook, now commissions content. The world’s most valuable retailer is now Amazon, and has more tha

In the new age of ubiquitous connectivity the message is the medium

In the new internet age, contextual content is king and no single platform wears a crown.

5G promises to transform the world again

Tom Goodwin Contributor Share on X Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast. More posts by this

The Future of TV isn’t apps

We’re in the mid-digital age, but we live with the legacy of analog systems, technology and thinking that's only embellished by the technologies of our new era.

Innovation is in all the wrong places

I live a pretty cosmopolitan futuristic life atop a glass skyscraper in New York City, but I’ve yet to get a pizza delivered by drone, order a taxi from Alexa or open a hotel door with my smartwatch

When every company is a tech company, valuations go insane

Users, subscribers, growth, global expansion, minimal marginal costs, the promise of future success; this all sounds a bit like the verbiage of a tech company -- and that’s because the industry has

We’re at peak complexity — and it sucks

Virtually all companies are doing digital transformation wrong. We’re placing it around the edge, keeping it at arm’s length, like it’s a problem and not an opportunity. If companies are to succ

The future is a smarter world of dumber devices

In the early 2000s, we lived in an era of expensive storage and slow connectivity. Those of us tasked with predicting the future faced a dilemma: Would processing and storage get so cheap that each an

The three ages of digital

We need to see the world in these three phases: before a full immersion of digital communications technology; when such technologies have faded into the background; and the mess between the two.

The tipping point for rebellion

We are all getting lazy and spoiled. We’re not choosing simple over better, but easy over passably good. We’re self-sabotaging ourselves because effort is a price too great for anything.

Welcome to the post-app world?

As instant messaging and voice control takes off, it increasingly seems that apps are not the solution for everything.

With another Apple failure, it’s time to forget about hardware

The lesson is this: we shouldn’t be focusing on hardware anymore. Perhaps instead we need to focus on what happens when hardware and software come together.

A Guiding Light Into The Future Of Marketing

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a feast to the eyes, but an overload of the senses. Separating the profound from the gimmicks and the trends from the distractions is vital, but hard. For me, th

From Digital Disappointment ToThe End Of The App Era, Here Are Eight Trends For 2016

The reality is that we live on the edges of profound new technologies that could each individually changes everything or come together and change nothing.

Are We Struggling To Value Unicorns?

We’ve abandoned time-honored valuation techniques from the past because they didn’t work for new rapid-growth, tech-driven businesses. But what if the new rule book was equally inept? As a lover o

The Internet’s Vanishing Point?

Technologies only become truly integrated into society when they move from requiring forethought to becoming an afterthought. It's the progression of all innovations and it's now happening to how we e
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