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Chase Raz, Christopher Woodward, and Chris Ayers each share a brief list of three things they believe will be "big" in business and technology throughout 2018. This episode concludes our third season and prepares us for the upcoming new year. Happy Holidays to all of our listeners, colleagues, friends, and family!

Many smart visionaries and innovators have come in gone with each successive generation. Some have their visions realized, and others do not. This Top 10 list from Chase Raz and Christopher Woodward highlights the visionaries that we wish hadn't been off the mark so they could see their wonderful visions come to light.

From smartwatches to office necessities, and a few nerd toys, too! Join Christopher Woodward and Chase Raz for this year's guide to the best items from the dozens of gift guides online. If your shopping during this year's Black Friday or Cyber Monday, be sure to listen in so you know what to get for your co-workers, your friends and family, and yourself.

Garret Albritton joins Chase Raz for the third Multinewmedia Nerd Out November. This wonderfully meandering conversation covers movies and TV, the cloud, board games, storytelling, retro-tech, AR and VR, and the future.

Chase Raz has been working on a book for Multinewmedia and it focuses on emerging technologies and how business and technology will be impacted by innovation in the future. To support this book, Chase is working on a lecture series to help spread even more information about how our shared future will evolve. This episode introduces the first rough draft and dry run for the lecture series and the focus is on cloud computing's present and future, with plenty of context for good measure.

Star Trek has been back on television (and mobile, and computer, etc.) for a few weeks now. Chase Raz hails friend, co-worker, and former student Garret Albritton to engage the Klingons and discuss what it means for Star Trek to be back. The biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own; meaning that the cultural influences and technical production elements of the new series are explored, even where no one has gone before. Some spoilers are to be expected.

Chase Raz has been feeling quite a bit of apathy towards consumer technology recently, and he believes that he's not alone. Not only do others seem to be "tapping out" of tech because of the continually elevating price tags, but tech companies themselves seem to be retrenching from their wide-reaching ecosystems and into a few key competencies... or at least cutting out what they are so competent at doing or making. Chris Ayers, on the other hand, feels find about technology and has no problem supporting multiple devices, platforms, and ecosystems to get whatever content he wants, whenever he wants it.

Our world seems to be full of such turmoil and chaos right now. From never-ending war and embarrasing statesmen on one side, and fanciful visions of an immediately possible future on the other. Chase Raz goes solo to explore some of the sources of posititivity and negativity directly surrounding his professional life and helps make sense of how businessess can navigate this new normal, connects technology as the partial source of conflict, and offers a suggestion on how to mitigate business problems as a result of the clash between optimism and pessimism.

Cordy Rierson, Director of Mixed Reality Experiences at Microsoft, joins Chase Raz via Skype to talk about Mixed Reality. Cordy and Chase explore what Mixed Reality means, how augmented and virtual reality are incorporated, and the future of blending the physical and digital worlds. Cordy addresses productivity and creativity from a business perspective, as well as the technologies of 3D, VR, AR, screenless computing, cloud computing, and more.

Chris Ayers and Chase Raz extol the virtues of not just using third party tooling, but also deploying content and services through third party platforms. These tools are sometimes snubbed because of age-old branding instincts that encourage everything to be custom and proprietary or at least white label. Chris explains why this old methodology is broken, and how it slows progress and diverts focus away from the real business objectives that deserve more attention.

Carl Pullein is a business owner, consultant, author, and teacher. His business, Fandcorp Business Solutions helps international businesses, especially Korean, operate in the English speaking world. Carl's university work and other projects all center around creativity and productivity. In this episode, Carl and Chase Raz talk about these topics which are of interest to almost all business professionals: creativity, productivity, and communication.

Chase Raz and Christopher Woodward share their respective Top 5 lists of deprecated and depreciated technologies from the past one-to-two decades. As a bonus, they also share a couple of picks for technologies that will soon be obsolete as well as technologies considered at-risk that aren't going away anytime soon.

Allan Kelly, known as "Agile Allan", joins Chase Raz to talk about Agile and its importance in the world of technology and software development. Allan is a London-based former professional programmer and is currently a consultant, presenter, and writer specializing on topics that merge busienss practices with technology best practices. Allan and Chase discuss how business people can better understand Agile, and even explore the economics of the future as it relates to knowledge workers and technological productivity.

A live recording with Chase Raz and Christopher Woodward as they present Social Media Growth Strategies as a part of the 2017 Full Sail University Summer Continue Education lineup. Chase and Christopher will discuss four common strategies by dividing social networks into three types: status-based, interest-based, and network-based.

You're wondering what applications you can add to your mobile phone to help focus you instead of continually distracting you, right? YouTuber and Marketer Francesco D'Alessio can help. Francesco joins Chase Raz this week to share his top six productivity app selections.

We've been so busy with consulting recently that the show feels a bit neglected. With long overdue vacations happening to unwind from the work overload, Chase Raz and Chris Ayers catch up on a variety of topics such as travel routers, tor, Apple HomePod, iMac Pro, Xbox One X, PlayStation 4 Pro, and more.

Continuing education can be a frustrating reality of professional life, but Chase Raz and Chris Ayers discuss why it is so important and worthwhile. Different opinions regarding continuing education exist within varied disciplines, but all functional areas seem to agree on the merits of always learning and growing one's body of knowledge.

Summer is coming soon and that likely means some travel is in your future. You may travel for work, conventions, conferences, vacation, or to see family, but no matter what type of trip you take you'll likely bring along some twchnology. Chase Raz and Christopher Wooward share some traveling tips for managing technology.

Chase Raz and Chris Ayers discuss the Microsoft Build developers conference for 2017. They'll explore Azure, Cognitive Services, Windows as a Service, the Microsoft Graph, and more.

Chris Ayers provides an introduction to Microsoft's Azure Cognitive Services that is friendly to both business people and developers. No experience is needed to start learning about the types of tools that are available for vision, language, and other services through APIs. These APIs allow your applications to tap into some of the most advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning available.