Departure Unknown - The Future Of Transportation

Depatureunknown.com My most recent interviews were with experts in AI and immediately after finishing my discussions with Chris Noessel from IBM and Yves Bergquist from the USC Entertainment Technology Center my opportunity nose, whatever that is, wanted to sniff out more around the role of service in the future of transportation. You see, it is very easy to speak about the future in terms of technology – self driving cars, hyperloop, supersonic jets…but in reality there are very few companies who will be successful creating these capital intensive products. When you think about what will happen when we all have cars, planes or drones shuttling us around on demand service becomes the most important differentiator between your mobility service or mine. When you take a flight from LA to London you have a myriad of choices. Economy seats, business class lie flat seats, on board chefs, on board nannies, better movie selections and worse movie selections, friendlier cabin crew or colder cabin crew…all these elemen