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AIR Show and #asugsvsummit in San Diego this week was an excellent place catch up to the state of AI and other tech for education. Lots of wonky policy discussions and deep tech debates in the hallways and sessions. One persistent theme was the power of personalized learning solutions for k-12, college, and lifelong learners. The F-14 on static display atop the aircraft carrier USS Midway Museum in San Diego Bay was a bonus!

Spooler Media was in Germany last week seeing partners. We had a chance to visit the mighty Axel Springer headquarters in Berlin, set just off the historic line of the Berlin Wall. The building features a fascinating and terrifying example of the #paternoster elevator. Can’t stop, won’t stop! I first rode one at the University of Vienna back in the day.

Incredible glimpses of the future in the car and mobillity tech at #ces2024 this week. It’s clear that electric autonomous vehicles are what’s next. Honda’s wild Space-Hub and Saloon concepts (pic below) and Bollinger Motors' retro-futuristic B2 electric pickup were particular highlights. The Spooler Media team was in Vegas talking Media for Spatial Computing for mobility, excited to participate in the digital transformation in automotive happening now!

A hearty thank you to Spooler Media customers for the great year in 2023. 💕 We are thrilled to be working with you and look forward to delivering new capabilities to help you delight your listeners in the new year. 🎇

Will I see you at #PodcastMovement next month in glorious Denver? Famous Stetson-wearer Will Mayo, Barometer's Tamara (Zubatiy) Nelson 🇺🇦 , Steven Goldstein from Amplify, and I will chop it up about #GenerativeAI and storytelling on stage on Wednesday. Can't wait! Come hang out with us and bring your toughest questions.

The End of the Digital Frontier For those of us with access, it's tempting to take always-on, high-speed internet connectivity for granted. But for much of the world, high-speed internet remains a work in progress. Satellite internet, inexpensive connected devices, and last-mile solutions are close to providing near-complete coverage to the planet, finally signaling the end of the internet frontier. While work remains to be done, not just in traditionally underserved regions like Africa but also here in the US, the gap is closing. What will that mean? I grew up in Central Oregon, in a logging town near a historic offshoot of the Oregon Trail. Even though the 1890 Census declared the American frontier closed, vestiges of frontier life were everywhere when I was a kid. While bike riding in Eastern Oregon one time, I marveled at Oregon Trail wagon wheel ruts still visible, in petrified mud. Maybe that's why the idea of progress and movement, of restless people chasing new ideas, has always resonated with me. As a global society, we’re approaching the end of another frontier: worldwide density of high-quality internet access. Soon the notion of digital haves and have-nots, that some folks have great internet access and some don’t, will be antiquated. The advent of reusable first-stage rocket boosters has radically reduced the cost of getting payloads to space. Satellite swarms are providing global services like daily photographic observation, ubiquitous climate monitoring, and universally available global internet.   This transportation innovation in space launch is enabling global, low-latency connectivity and eliminating internet deserts around the world. People who have never enjoyed access to the internet before or have only limited, slow connectivity are gaining high-speed internet everywhere in the world. For the first time, ships at sea, explorers and researchers in the farthest reaches of the Arctic, and underserved rural communities will have high-speed connectivity. This cohort of 2.7 billion people coming online represents another third of the world’s population with things to say and culture to contribute.  The explosive popularity of podcasting, thanks to Apple iTunes in 2005, then the iPhone, then Spotify, has meant two decades of steady growth in content, diversity of audience, and overall economic activity around this global audio conversation. Podcasting remains the easiest way to distribute long-form niche media. The closing of the digital frontier will unleash a new wave of global audio, full of fresh voices. I am here for it! 🔥 As a veteran of the podcast industry from the early days, I’ve always been most excited about shows from new creators and networks in different parts of the world. At Spooler, we specialize in helping creators tell stories that are up-to-date and contextualized in the location where they happen. I couldn't be more excited to hear what the next 100 million podcasters have to say. 🎧

Thank you to Zach and the @LivingCoporate team for the opportunity to appear on the show! What a privilege to be interviewed. I love that podcasting helps power Living Corporate’s mission to amplify underrepresented voices. We talked indie audio networks, @ApplePodcasts, @spoolermedia, and more. It's on Apple Podcasts & @Spotify: https://apple.co/3PfZYEH https://spoti.fi/43H3LyE #podcasting #marketing #career #business

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