Podcast

S02E02 – The Strangler Fig Pattern

Pilote TEch Podcast. The strangler fig pattern

In which Cory Smith and David Fuller discuss Design Thinking, revisit Total Experience, ponder Chat GPT, explore the user cases for VR at trade shows, remember GTA V Radio stations and discover the Strangler Fig Pattern.

Shownotes & Bookmarks

  • 00:44 – Design thinking is a process that puts the ‘user’ or consumer at the centre, by empathising with their experience.
  • 01:22 – In Season 1, we talked about Total Experience, the idea that customer experience and employee experience are closely linked. But is it achievable?
  • 06:26 – Chokepoint Capitalism Book. Monopolies are reducing the payments to authors, musicians and other content creators.
  • 10:00 – More thoughts around ChatGPT. What is the potential versus the reality today?
  • 17:23 – How can VR and AR be used to display, demonstrate and sell very large things, like yachts? Based on a post on Linkedin by Princess Yachts, we discuss how VR could change the exhibition industry.
  • 20:54 – Virtual Reality 3D style docks and boats from Fountaine Pajot.
  • 23:15 – Even more thoughts about AI and Chat GPT. Should content created with an AI have a disclaimer? What are the dangers of using the wrong answers from ChatGPT without knowing they are wrong?
  • 30:45 – I want AI to give me the ‘Babel fish‘ the real-time translation device as described in the ‘Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
  • 31:28 – The theme music from the BBC series of Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is actually by The Eagles – called Journey of the Sorcerer!
  • 32:05 – Grand Theft Auto V has 16 Radio Stations with over 400 tracks, plus Ads and News reports.
  • 34:48 – New segment ‘NERD MINUTE’. The Strangler Fig Pattern. As the vine grows, it spreads to completely consume and ultimately replace the host tree, leaving a new, strangler fig tree in its place.

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