FEATURING:

Jason Silva
Check his talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney.

Kunal Kalro
Follow him on Twitter
Visit his company website Eugene Labs

RadioLab
Listen to the extraordinary podcast here.

CRISPR’s Consequences was originally published in FUTURE SANDWICH on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

FEATURING:

Steve Sammartino
Author of The Great Fragmentation and The Lessons School Forgot.
Follow Steve on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin.

Nic Hodges
Speaker and Founder of Blonde3.
Follow Nic on Twitter and Linkedin.

Elon Musk
You should start with his Twitter.

Simulation Theory was originally published in FUTURE SANDWICH on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In 1906, Australia saw its first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang. It tells of the adventures of a Melbourne bushranger, Ned Kelly. It made history becoming the first feature length multi-reel film ever released. The way you bought a ticket, and sat and watched this film over 110 years ago, hasn’t fundamentally changed at all.

Most of the advances were focused on better picture and sound, but the major change happen outside the cinema, with the rise of televisions at home, and now everyone has a screen in their pocket.

If you’re playing the movie on the telephone, you’ll never in a trillion years experience the film.

David Lynch

We also cover off VR and its impact on Hollywood. We asked Chris Panzetta, from the production company S1T2 — Story 1st Technology 2nd, is VR a threat or an opportunity to Cinema, and he had some scary responses.

Film has this idea of fourth wall where you’re protected by the screen and watch something terrifying feeling removed from that. In Virtual Reality you don’t have that fourth wall, you’re not protected. If you had the chance to be immersed in Dunkirk, would you really want to do that?

Chris Panzetta

We discussed the influence of data in Hollywood productions — which was questioned by Future Sandwich’s super star Nic Hodges.

This fantastic story that House of Cards was created by data is fundamentally wrong.

Nic Hodges

The Story Universe is not a new concept. We saw Walt Disney launch his theme park which brought Mickey and Minney of the silver screen and into family photos across America. We heard this from the storyteller’s perspective; Sam Esmail, creator of the multi-awarded series Mr Robot. He believes cinema’s biggest revolution lies in the storytelling, and creators need to focus on telling the story in many more places that just then cinema.

When you set out to tell a story, you’re not telling just one linear story from beginning to end as a TV show or a movie; you’re now embracing all the different avenues where people can consume storytelling.

Sam Esmail

We couldn’t end this episode without covering the future of movie theatres. We talked to Shane Thatcher from Choovie, an Australian startup that is bringing down ticket prices, and filling up empty seats.

We try to module the demand of every single movie session and attach the appropriate price to it.

Shane Thatcher

It’s hard to predict the sequel to this cinema saga. It is clear the power of the story is central regardless of the new technologies impacting Hollywood. One thing is certain — just as it happened with radio or TV — cinema won’t die in the end.

Now, enjoy Future Sandwich Episode 13 — Cinema’s Sequel.

FEATURING:

Christopher Nolan
Director of Dunkirk, Interstellar and Batman.

David Lynch
Director of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet.

Nic Hodges
Speaker and Founder of Blonde3.
Follow Nic on Twitter and Linkedin.

Chris Panzetta
Founder of S1T2.

Shane Thatcher
Founder of Choovie.

MEDIA REFERENCES:

Full transcript: 'Mr. Robot' creator Sam Esmail on Recode Decode

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$4 pizzas? Really?
You gotta be kidding me.
It’s not bad at all!

Haiku Review #53 was originally published in Haiku Reviews on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

This speakeasy is
definitely hard to find.
Hard not coming back.

PS: best cocktail menu ever.

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The stories will spread wider than the podcast, including here on Medium.

This month, we look at ‘The Everything Store’, Amazon, and it’s founder Jeff Bezos ahead of it’s long-awaited arrival in Australia.

This story begins in 1994, when Bezos, then a young NYC Hedge Fund manager, drops everything and moves to Seattle with a business plan in hand.

In that year, he observed web usage was growing 2300% a year and was determined to hitch a ride on that growth. He then made a list of 20 products to possibly sell online and picked books considering that they would be perfect list, package, ship and satisfy.

Since, Amazon has become an empire of innovation, with products ranging from streaming services or cloud-computing providers to grocery delivery. That makes Amazon almost unbeatable, in terms that it’s really hard to compete against a company that is constantly increasing its growth with new innovative products and services, always surrounding the customers wherever they look.

According to our guest, Nic Hodges, Amazon is the favourite to win the race to be the first trillion dollar company amongst the four horsemen; Apple, Google, and Facebook.

“The number of different arms that Amazon has, it’s sort of to a degree that it’s anti-fragility.”

Author and Speaker, Steve Sammartino, suggests Bezos’ company has an unfair financial advantage from their traditional retail competitors since Amazon’s shareholders don’t expect dividends from their investments. That leads all the profit to be reinvested in innovation and new ways to please the customers.

“That’s a core advantage. Amazon goes out and gives money back to itself. And invest in itself again, and again, and again.”

And when Warren Buffett, the world’s most successful investor, opens his mouth, the market moves, so when he says Bezos is one of the best business minds of the generation, we should listen. Talking about the impact of Amazon Web Services, he said Bezos’ competitors didn’t see it coming, they sat and watched through a period of six to seven years, while Amazon built its gigantic cloud provider almost undetected.

But what about Amazon in Australia? Should the local retailers be concerned? To find out, we invited Steve Jones, Founder of the online furniture marketplace: House of Home.

According to Steve, the bright side is that he believes Amazon will still take up to five years to figure out logistics across Australia’s vast scale; and these investments might help small retailers once Amazon is fully functional. However, he fears that the giant’s arrival will more likely destroy local companies than helping them, as per what’s happened in the US and beyond.

Steve says the downside is Amazon will drive hundreds of businesses to close their doors. But there is one weakness that can be the saving grace for retailers, a human touch, the ability to curate and service exactly like an algorithm and websites cannot.

If your business provides an experience to the customers, and creates a product that they love, you will be able to Survive Amazon.

Now, let’s jump to our episode.

FEATURING:

Steve Sammartino
Author of The Great Fragmentation and The Lessons School Forgot.
Follow Steve on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin.

Nic Hodges
Speaker and Founder of Blonde3.
Follow Nic on Twitter and Linkedin.

Steve Jones
Founder House Of Home

Warren Buffett
World’s most successful Investor
Follow Warren on Twitter

Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon
Follow Jeff on Twitter

MEDIA REFERENCES:

Surviving Amazon was originally published in FUTURE SANDWICH on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Episode featuring founder of The Week in Bitcoin, Alan Tsen and News Corp’s Nic Hodges, & Author Steve Sammartino.

Thanks to:

Alan Tsen
Follow him on Twitter
Subscribe to The Week In Bitcoin
Meetup at FinTechMelb
Meetup at BitCoinMelb

Nic Hodges
Head of Commercial Innovations at News Corp Australia
Subscribe to The Brief Newsletter at Blonde3
Follow @Nic Hodges on Twitter

Steve Sammartino
Author & Keynote Speaker
Buy the The Great Fragmentation on Amazon
Read Start Up Blog
Follow @sammartino on Twitter

We take a Tesla Model S for a spin, and talk to Nic Hodges and Steve Sammartino about when we won’t need to worry about getting a Driver’s License.

A big thanks to these guys who contributed to Episode 1:

• Heath at Tesla Motors
  Go Test Drive a Tesla in Richmond
• Nic Hodges
  Head of Commercial Innovations at News Corp Australia
  Subscribe to The Brief Newsletter at Blonde3
  Follow @Nic Hodges on Twitter
• Steve Sammartino
  Author & Keynote Speaker
  Buy the The Great Fragmentation on Amazon
  Read Start Up Blog
  Follow @sammartino on Twitter
• Chris Urmson on TED

https://embed.ted.com/f6cd0ec2-310f-427d-b0db-1765f721446a

The current system is broken. In this episode, we discuss what it takes to teach how to live a full life.

Thanks to everyone who helped make Episode 9.

• Sir Ken Robinson

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

• Alan Watts

• Steve Sammartino
  Follow him on Twitter
  Buy The Great Fragmentation

In this episode, we discuss the future of cities and whether we will continue making them more dense, or we will go bush and rely on technology to connect.

Big thanks to;
Barrie Barton of Right Angle Studio.

Thank to the ‘The Future Of The Smart City’ podcast for snippets of Dr. Dan Doctoroff and Adam Greenfield. You can buy Adam’s book ‘Against The Smart City’ here.

Also big thanks, as always to Steve Sammartino. Follow him on twitter, or buy his ‘The Great Fragmentation‘ here.