#13 - Technology - The Role of Tech in our Daily Lives with Juan Santos

Welcome to 3 Thoughts On.  Today I am delighted to have Juan Santos as my guest.  Juan Santos is Senior Vice President of Brand Experience and Innovation at Tavistock Development where he leads the Marketing, Public Relations, and Resident Activation disciplines. At TDC he is part of a multi-disciplinary team that uses design thinking to build places where people can thrive.  

 

With more than 20 years of experience creating experiences that connect people and brands through technology, he has been involved in many industry milestones, including the first worldwide webcast for Earth Day, and the first digital consumer electronics catalog for Toshiba USA. Juan is a recognized expert in Smart Cities, Design Thinking, User Generated Content, Virtual Worlds, Physical + Digital and Loyalty & Rewards. 

 

Juan and I share a belief that science and technology are essential for man kind.  If we look around our homes, offices and public places, there is not a single device that works just because.  Everything around us that is manmade was at one point in time a science project led by a physicist, chemist or some other type of scientist who was working strictly for the purpose of understanding something complex.  We believe that when scientists are allowed to do science they come up with discoveries that can have dramatic positive impact in human life.  It may be decades before those discoveries become viable in the marketplace.  

 

At least in the United States, it is our grandparents and great grandparents’ tax dollars that funded the science experiments that are the foundation of every gadget, medical instrument, or appliance that we mindlessly use today.  Yes, without the science, nothing gets built.  Juan and I believe that societies could benefit from understanding how technology helps us live our daily lives.  This episode will be the first of a series focused on the origins of the Technology that permeates our daily lives today.  Some of the technology comes from the space program and some of comes from other industries and government programs.  We truly hope you enjoy this series

 

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/

https://sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/roy-j-plunkett/

https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/40-years-of-nasa-spinoff/memory-foam

https://www.dpreview.com/news/3642498481/cmos-inventor-dr-eric-fossum-named-2020-edwin-h-land-medal-recipient

https://youtu.be/1-caz-enJWw

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1944/rabi/biographical/

 

Credits

Song - Bittersweet

https://youtu.be/u7lDY0hECfM?si=sWbPZ-hFeFf9bnmM

by Ian D Joseph