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Video Interview with TELUS Chief Futurist David Neale: “It’s about you.”

By on January 12, 2010 at 5:02pm in Asides, Mobile News, Telus Mobility News, Various News

We sat down today with TELUS Chief Futurist David Neale and picked his brain about what he truly believes the future is about what it really looks like. He wrote a piece a couple weeks ago where he predicted what 2010 might pan out to be… but we wanted to did a little bit deeper and see what is beyond this year.

Neal stated the future will “definitely look very different than it is today… now you have a situation where Canada has the literally the leading networks, the key thing is bringing in the devices. I’ll be quite honest… what we are doing here is a lot of curation… I’m not going to make predictions on hardware, that’s kinda not important… It’s how it’s getting used that is important… it’s all about experience nowadays. It’s about You… it’s all about the individual.”

He goes on to say that “the future we see is all about increasing enablement, is about empowerment, it’s about providing creative disintermediation”. Check out the video and let us know your thoughts.

(It’s still uploading to YouTube and I forgot a piece in my tripod, so apologies for the shakes)

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Discussion

12 comments for “Video Interview with TELUS Chief Futurist David Neale: “It’s about you.””

  1. lol “its about you”, yeah its about you getting screwed by us! whats with telus making up stupid executive titles? a futurist!? wow that guy must be living in the past then because our devices sure are

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    Posted by mark | January 12, 2010, 5:43 pm
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  2. Our money is being flushed away down the toilet to pay for the salaries of a futurist. How about passing that money onto your clients? There’s a reason why it’s called dope.

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    Posted by absolushaun | January 12, 2010, 7:08 pm
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  3. I wonder if “creative disintermediation” means that we should be able to treat the wireless network as nothing more than a big, fat, dumb pipe? And, run what we want on it – e.g. VOIP applications? Somehow I don’t think that’s what he had in mind.

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    Posted by Jim R | January 12, 2010, 8:47 pm
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  4. I wonder if by “creative disintermediation” he means we should be able to treat the wireless network like a big, fat, dumb pipe and run whatever we want on it? E.g., VOIP applications? Hmmmm, something tells me that is NOT what he has in mind.

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    Posted by Jim R | January 12, 2010, 8:55 pm
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  5. when is LTE coming?

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    Posted by Janet Whone | January 12, 2010, 8:56 pm
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  6. So when are paid apps coming to Android?

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    Posted by JH | January 12, 2010, 8:58 pm
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  7. incomplete? unfinished?

    Spit it out, man – the suspense is killing me!!!

    Regardless of what the futurist says, Canada is now in a position to be very advanced in the cellular world… Not a whole lot of countries have 2 completely different networks to choose from on one service provider.

    Good advancements in tech…now we need some advancement in customer service and billing costs!

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    Posted by J.Soul | January 12, 2010, 10:24 pm
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  8. Telus is a forward thinking company,Rogers used to be,That is why I am switching.

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    Posted by larry harvey | January 12, 2010, 11:43 pm
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  9. Yeah I seen his So called “piece” a couple weeks ago where he predicted what 2010 might pan out to be – more like “piece of *h!t” They pay this guy hunderds of thousands of dollars to be a r****d? he made NO predictions & more or less stated what devices can do NOW, and have been for months to that last year or more !! Chief Futurist !! that just makes me lose any respect I may have had for telus as a company…

    Heres my piece, I predict in 2010 people will use cellphones to makes calls, send text, and connect to Wireless dsta! were my $100,000.00??

    just sad!

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    Posted by CRIMINALOGIC ® | January 13, 2010, 12:21 am
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  10. OMG if think tha position of “Chief Futurist” is one of tha most idiotic trumped up job a tecom may have, just think – David Neale is telus’s “Chief” Futurist.. that meens there a whole team of Futurists.. OMG!! LMATFO!!!!

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    Posted by CRIMINALOGIC ® | January 13, 2010, 12:56 am
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  11. does this mean they will be combining all their programs together over time? Also in the interview he states that the transition went well and speeds are already met, so what is next?

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    Posted by Olly P | January 13, 2010, 8:12 am
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  12. You’d think he could have predicted that he wouldn’t have a job at TELUS until the end of 2010

    LOL

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    Posted by No wool over my eyes | September 6, 2010, 10:12 pm
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