Welcome To FutureForward. Today – the future of the Phone Company.Is ATT&T on the verge of being pushed out of relevancy by FAANG? Or Just a great big phone company that wants to get bigger. Well, it depends on who you believe. Then – More moves in the Over The Top world. And – for a trip into the future, we’ll travel to the Tribeca Film Festival – Virtual Arcade. I’m Steven Rosenbaum and I’m Gene DeRose. Ready to launch Future Forward!

Future Forward Rundown:

open, Loving and Hating –

1). AT&T / Time Warner

Time Warner C.E.O. Testifies That AT&T Merger Is Needed to Battle Silicon Valley

AT&T CEO defends Time Warner merger in court
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/383969-att-ceo-defends-time-warner-merger-in-court

From the witness stand, AT&T chief details new $15-a-month streaming service
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/19/media/att-watch-streaming-service/index.html

2). OTT Moves:
YouYube Takes a bite of Chedder

YouTube TV adds its first digital-only networks with launch of two channels from Cheddar

Verizon Video Stratedy

Source: Verizon to sharpen content strategy with OTT video service, IoT platform

3. Tribeca Virtual Reality
https://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/virtual-arcade

#WarGames VR (World Premiere) – USA

objects in mirror AR closer than they appear (World Premiere) – USA
Based on the critically acclaimed theatrical performance The Object Lesson, objects in mirror AR closer than they appear fuses augmented-reality technology with an immersive theater installation, inviting audiences to reflect on the relationship between new media and archaic objects; 21st-century technology and 19th-century magic; and memory and optical illusion. The piece creates a philosophical playground to explore the shifting relationship between images,
memories, and things.

Terminal 3 (World Premiere) – USA, Pakistan
Project Creator: Asad J. Malik
Key Collaborators: Kaleidoscope VR, Anita Gou, RYOT, Philipp Schaeffer, Viva Wittman, Jack Daniel Gerrard,
Musa Ghaznavi
Terminal 3 is an interactive, augmented-reality documentary that explores contemporary Muslim identities in the U.S.through the lens of an airport interrogation. As viewers put on the Hololens, they step into the uncanny to directly interrogate and determine the fate of, the hologram passenger before them. These interrogations become strikingly personal encounters that only end when the participant decides if the hologram should be let into the country or not—but there is a twist.

Into the Now (World Premiere) – USA
Project Creator: Michael Muller
Key Collaborators: Michael Smith, Morne Hardenberg Director and legendary shark photographer Michael Muller’s lifelong fear of sharks eventually led him to discover the tranquility and peace of mind that is possible underwater, engaged with these curious and intimidating creatures. This stunning documentary, a revolutionary, stereoscopic virtual-reality experience, explores marine life and ocean
conservation via Muller’s own internal journey.

Tech:
– Jaron Lanier

https://www.wired.com/story/ted-2018-is-all-about-facebookand-not-in-a-good-way/

– Steve Pinker
The world is an amazing place. So why aren’t we happier?

– James Bridle – YouTube and children

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/27/566769570/youtube-faces-increased-criticism-that-its-unsafe-for-kids

Architecture:
– Renzo Piano
– Bridge Builder Ian Firth

– Renzo Piano “Architecture is the art of telling stories”; “I’m Italian and I love beauty”; “Real beauty is when invisible join visible”; “Better cities make better citizens”

Bridge Builder Ian Firth “I think we have a duty to make our built environment beautiful. Anything else is a kind of grand scale vandalism.” @i_firth #TED2018

Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil at TED: Basic income will spread worldwide by the 2030s
http://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-worldwide-by-2030s-ray-kurzweil-2018-4?r=UK&IR=T

Kurzweil at SXSW: The Power of Ideas to Transform the World Is Accelerating
http://www.kurzweilai.net/on-stage-ray-kurzweil-interview-at-south-by-southwest-event

SR Fear of Heights
– Alex Honnold – Rock climber
https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ng-adventure/adv-beyond-the-edge-honnold

Today – We’ve Got FutureForward, a show in three acts. Act 1 – Privacy. Do You Have It? Do you Want It? What does it cost? Then, ACT 2. Virtual Reality. 12 Can’t Miss Projects from the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab. And Act 3. Hungry? You better be, as we take a bite into the Future of Food. I’m Steve Rosenbaum and I’m Gene DeRose -and this is FutureForward! So off we go!

Future Forward #2021 – Privacy. Virtual Reality. And Future of Food.

A Show In Three Acts –

Act #1 Ok, Fine – Let’s Talk About Privacy.

On Facebook, Zuckerberg gets privacy and you get nothing
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-two-tier-privacy-one-rule-for-zuckerberg/

Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why ‘privacy is a human right’
https://www.recode.net/2018/4/6/17197754/watch-apple-ceo-tim-cook-msnbc

Europe is trying to force Facebook to take customers’ privacy seriously
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/5/17199754/facebook-europe-gdpr-mark-zuckerberg-data-privacy

Act #2 VR – And the Future @ Columbia University

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https://medium.com/@StevenRosenbaum/2018-breakthroughs-in-storytelling-winners-9d1c847018a9

Winners:

“Arden’s Wake (Prologue)” and Maestro

The Believers Are But Brothers

Bloodless

Carne y Arena

Cosmic Top Secret

Did You Mean MailChimp?

Everything

It Must Have Been Dark By Then

What Remains of Edith Finch

* http://digitaldozen.io/projects/the-oracles/ SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

The Space We Hold

* http://digitaldozen.io/projects/zero-days-vr/ SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

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Act #3 The Future of Food

At Plated, The Future Of Meal-Kit Services Is Grocery Stores
https://www.fastcompany.com/40484473/at-plated-the-future-of-meal-kit-services-is-grocery-stores

Where will meal kits find future growth?
https://www.fooddive.com/news/grocery–where-will-meal-kits-find-future-growth/507506/

Could This Be What Ends Up Keeping Meal Kits in Business?
http://www.foodandwine.com/news/meal-kits-in-grocery-stores

Whole Foods calls meeting with rattled suppliers

Whole Foods calls meeting with rattled suppliers, Bezos dines on iguana, Alexa laughs