Vienna & San Jose - Oct 17, 2023 - Published columnist, future-scenario creator and CEO of www.redswan.at Ursula Eysin adds a Podcast to her popular monthly print column: Code Red – Technology, Madness and the Future of Humanity. The Code Red Podcast is for people who are pissed off about technology going rogue, want to do something about it and wish to use technology in positive ways to create a better future for humanity by starting with themselves.
Ursula discusses the topics mentioned in her columns with San Jose-based tech luminary Chris Kalaboukis, who often doesn’t agree at all with her technology-critical point of view. Starting on October 17, 2023, new episodes will be published every third Sunday of the month on coderedbyredswan.substack.com, YouTube (coderedbyredswan) and Spotify.
WHAT TO GET
The episodes provide half an hour of discussion on topics such as “Honey, the Refrigerator Reordered Milk, Again!”, “How Fully-Automated Life-Hacks Ruin Our Lives and Our Future”, “Google Glass – Innovation made in Austria”, etc.
Every third Sunday of the month, free subscribers to coderedbyredswan.substack.com will receive the newest episode directly in their inbox. All episodes are publicly available and free of charge.
THE WHY AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT
Open mind for a different view
Not everyone is a reader. So, Ursula had long planned to add a video podcast to her print column. However, it took her more than two years to find the right co-host. Then she met Chris Kalaboukis on his thinkfuture Podcast, and it was an instant match. She asked him to do a monthly show together, and here we are at the Code Red Podcast launch today.
"Chris is an idea-generating machine, a real disruptor. I like the way he adds a different view to my columns. There are many things we do not agree on – like why making coffee should be a chore machines should entirely take over for us; I love making coffee. Or why should we trust AI even more than we already do? – but that‘s exactly what makes our exchange so spicy," she says.
And Chris explains:
"It’s rare to find a combination of innovative and futurist thinking in an individual who also understands some of the ‘madness’ technology has brought to society. Ursula provides that check and balance so that we don’t go overboard (as I often do) on the thinking that technology can solve all our human problems. Our discussions are a delight."
MEET THE HOSTS
Silicon-Valley-based tech luminary, futurist, innovator, writer, philosopher and idea generating machine Chris Kalaboukis is a named inventor on 354 patents and cited on 1,806 patents in the online, social networking, and fintech spaces. A serial entrepreneur, he has helmed multiple startups from inception to launch. He has authored several books on innovation and the future and, as an early pioneer in the online media realm, began podcasting in 2005, accumulating over 800 episodes now hosted on his hub, thinkfuture.com.
Chris has worked with companies like Google, Yahoo!, Verizon, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Walmart, FedEx, Marriott, Hilton, the City of Palo Alto, The Institute for the Future (Intel, Dell, Lowe’s, Realtor.com, Cooper Lighting, Bell Canada, Shaw Communications and Cineplex Odeon).
From his roots in Toronto as a proud Greek Canadian to his central role in Silicon Valley, Chris Kalaboukis represents technological mastery, groundbreaking thought, and visionary insight.
At the heart of his inventive endeavors lies PolyScopeMedia, his most recent venture and home base of aidaily.us, a platform which helps you navigate through the fast-paced AI jungle with a well curated daily blast of AI news.
Ursula Eysin is a published columnist for e-media, Austria’s biggest technology magazine, where she has covered opinion pieces on technology’s going rogue, what to do about it, and how to create a better future for humanity since 2018. The trained ballerina used to work as a producer, moderator, and presenter in theater, opera, and film before she became a passionate technology consultant, communication professional and future scenario creator in 2004. And, though she doesn’t have a drop of Chinese blood in her, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and worked for the Chinese Television Chanel CCTV in her 20s.
Apart from that, she has worked with companies and organizations like Microsoft, T-Mobile, Nokia Siemens Networks, A1 Telekom Austria, IBM, PwC, Bearingpoint, Olympia Publishing House, News/VGN Publishing House, Impulse Dance Vienna, The People’s Opera Vienna, Schauspielhaus Vienna, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Berlin & Kenya), Federal Austrian Ministries (Technology, Interior, Economy, Defence), the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the European Commission.
In 2015, she founded her own company, Red Swan (www.redswan.at), which focuses on strategic communication and the development of scenarios to create a better future.
CHANNELS
https://coderedbyredswan.substack.com
https://www.youtube.com/@CodeRedbyRedSwan
CONTACT
Ursula Eysin
Founder & CEO
Red Swan (www.redswan.at)
Billrothstr. 14/16, 1190 Vienna
E: ursula.eysin@redswan.at
LinkedIn: @ursulaeysin
Chris Kalaboukis
Founder & CEO aidaily (aidaily.us) - thinkfuture (thinkfuture.com)
PO Box 54235 - San Jose CA 95154
E: chris@aidaily.us
LinkedIn: @thinkfuture
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