Category: Viodi View
-
Viodi View – 08/09/23
Patty Boyer’s comments complimenting Pat Thompson evoke the image of runners passing the baton in an endless race to improve the quality of the rural communications infrastructure. Boyers and Thompson’s connections with others in the industry may be even more impactful than their direct work. Simply, they inspire others to do great things in their…
-
The Bridge Between the Cable Past & the Broadband Future – #Summit23
Pat Thompson has lived the future. When she was told that “Women don’t do that,” she persisted and became the first woman broker in the still nascent cable television industry. It was an improbable career change for a single mother of three from Montana who had settled in Colorado only a few years earlier with…
-
Feeling the Energy with Gary Shorman at #TIS22
Gary Shorman, past Chair of NCTC, speaks about the energy of face-to-face interaction at the 2022 Independent Show (TIS). It is the impromptu side conversations that only happen in real life that provide a great deal of value to a conference like TIS22. This conference brings together leaders of leaders. As Shorman says, ACA Connects/NCTC…
-
The Next Generation Community Event
Video Summary An Audience that Reflects PBC’s Membership In the above interview filmed at NTCA’s SRC Live, Gary Johnson, CEO/General Manager for Paul Bunyan Communications, describes their most recent GigaZone TechXpo. He observes that it attracted an audience that reflects PBC’s membership. This extended community event, which drew over 4,000 attendees from the greater Bemidji…
-
Viodi View – 07/15/23
Cruise and Waymo passed the Kornhauser Proof-of-Technology version of the Turing Test (YouTube) last week. Princeton Professor Kornhauser explains that, if he closed his eyes, he would have found it difficult to differentiate between rides provided to him by those driverless companies and rides given by human drivers. He suggests that the next step is…
-
Viodi View – 06/16/23
Imagine a device that every pediatrician would have that could detect development issues in a 2-year-old. Or imagine a machine that trains a batter how to read the ball leaving a pitcher’s hand. Finally, imagine focusing on the fine print of a sign using superhuman, Steve Austin-like vision. These are some initial thoughts on how…