Dr. Finance Live Podcast Episode 17 - Daniel Burrus Interview - Leading Technology Futurist

(Originally aired 7/29/21): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmyc58t2mI0

This is Episode 17 of the Dr. Finance Live Podcast hosted by Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV (aka “Dr. Finance®”). Dr. Criniti interviewed Daniel Burrus, one of the world’s leading technology futurists and a New York Times best-selling author.

Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and innovation experts. Over the past thirty years, he has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world.

He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight, and the highly acclaimed Technotrends. Burrus is also a featured writer with millions of monthly readers on the topics of innovation, change, and the future.

He has delivered more than 2,800 keynote speeches worldwide and is a strategic advisor to executives from many Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. He has started six businesses, four of which were national leaders in their first year.

Visit Daniel's website for more information at https://www.burrus.com/

0:00​​​​​ - 10:00 - Podcast welcome and Daniel's story
10:01 - 13:39 - What is a futurist? How did he go from a biology professor to a futurist?
13:40 - 24:24 - What is the difference between a futurist, a visionary, a psychic, and a crazy? Elon Musk...
24:25 - 27:35 - Daniel's definition of technology
27:36 - 29:39 - Can you describe the steps, if any, that you use to predict the future?
29:40 - 32:54 - Is time travel possible? Back to the Future movie.
32:55 - 40:32 - Can you positively change the future without using creativity?
40:33 - 47:39 - Can you predict 10 inventions that will occur in the next 10 years?
47:40 - 51:30 - To quote Arthur Koestler from The Ghost in the Machine: “An invention, once made, cannot be dis-invented; the bomb has come to stay. Mankind has to live with it forever: not merely through the next crisis and the next one, but forever; not through the next twenty or two hundred or two thousand years, but forever. It has become part of the human condition” (Koestler, 1989, p. 324). What are your thoughts after listening to this quote?
51:31 - 55:26 - Do you think that humanity will be able to conquer the many crises that we face right now and come out stronger than ever? Are we being tested as a collective unit?
55:27 - 56:21 - Is the future bright for humanity?
56:22 - 59:06 - What role has networking played in your life? Over 1 million Linkedin followers
59:07 - 1:05:19 - Is mentoring important? Who are some of your mentors?
1:05:20 - 1:10:26 - What are your favorite financial books? None.
1:10:27 - 1:13:38 - Do we need money to survive?
1:13:39 - 1:14:29 - Is finance necessary for everyone? Why or why not? Daniel: "If I'm not thinking about finance, then I got nothing."
1:14:30 - 1:16:52 - How important is having a purpose in business? What is your purpose?
1:16:53 - 1:17:57 - What would you like to accomplish in the next 10 years or so? Why?
1:17:58 - 1:18:19 - What would you like to be your legacy to this world?
1:18:20 - 1:20:07 - Wrap up thoughts and Outro

Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV (aka “Dr. Finance®”) is the world's leading financial scientist and survivalist. A fifth generation native of Philadelphia, Dr. Criniti is a former finance professor at several universities, a former financial planner, an active investor in diverse marketplaces, an explorer, a speaker, and has traveled around the world studying various aspects of finance. He is an award winning author of three #1 international best-selling finance books: The Necessity of Finance (2013), The Most Important Lessons in Economics and Finance (2014), and The Survival of the Richest (2016). As a prolific writer, he also frequently contributes articles to Entrepreneur, Medium, and Thrive Global. Dr. Criniti has started a grassroots movement that is changing the way that we think about economics and finance.

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