This Changes Everything #20: The Show Must Go On in Post-Pandemic Hollywood
This pandemic has created a major upheaval in Los Angeles, the global hub of entertainment. We’re now used to streaming movies and TV shows...
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This Changes Everything #19: How Technology Is Getting Better, Worse & More Dominant In Our Lives
Silicon Valley has always been the global hub of technology, and in the past 18 months, it has made the tools that allowed Americans -- and...
This Changes Everything #18: Redesigning the Art World
California's arts institutions are dealing with budget cuts and revenue shortfalls due to the pandemic, and a reckoning with systemic racism...
This Changes Everything #17: A Very Different Type of Food Scene
Few business sectors in California were more battered by the pandemic than the dining industry -- nearly a third of the state’s restaurants...
This Changes Everything #16: The New "Experience" of Shopping
The pandemic has changed the concept of physical stores – do we still need them, what’s their purpose now, and how should they change to sta...
This Changes Everything #15: New Types of Trips and Travel Styles
Travel is bouncing back, but there’s still plenty we don’t know about how the pandemic -- and new variants of the coronavirus -- will play o...
This Changes Everything #13: How We'll Be Getting Around California
Now that California is reopening, where do we go and how do we get there? This three-part episode focuses on the future of transportation in...
This Changes Everything #12: Covid's Effect on Cities, Suburb and Small Towns
The pandemic has re-shifted our priorities, particularly where we want to live and work. For many Californians, that location may be a diffe...
This Changes Everything #11: How Higher Education Will Be Totally Different
After more than a year of closed campuses and online-only learning, California’s higher education system has been completely changed in a wa...
This Changes Everything #10: The Outlook for Youth and Young Adults
This pandemic has been a wild ride for everyone, especially for young Millennials and Generation Z. These teens and 20-somethings are dealin...
This Changes Everything #9: Dating, Relationships and a "Hot Vax Summer"
Remember when a first date often involved dinner and a movie, a few drinks in a crowded bar, and if things went well, a goodnight kiss? 2020...
This Changes Everything #8: Will Parents Get a Better Work/Life Balance?
What does the future hold for working parents in California? Will the childcare crisis, homeschooling debacle and issues involving remote wo...
This Changes Everything #7: California's Plan for Your Senior-Citizen Years
COVID-19 caused the early deaths of many seniors, but even as we see the light at the end of the tunnel, the big issues of aging and senior...
This Changes Everything #6: How to Improve Our Public Health System
Even though coronavirus infections have sharply dropped, and the CDC is relaxing the rules around masks and mingling, what are we going to d...
This Changes Everything #5: Doing Business in California - The Workers' Point of View
With recent headlines about scandals and snafus at Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, tech workers in Silicon Valley are fed up wi...
This Changes Everything #4: Doing Business in California - The CEOs' Point of View
Thirteen months of statewide shutdowns have meant shuttered doors and bankruptcies for businesses in all types of industries, and the exodus...
This Changes Everything #3: Back to School
When kids go back to in-person learning, what will that be like? How will the classroom be set up? How will school administrators handle the...
This Changes Everything #2: Back to Work
In this episode, we’re taking a look at The Future of Work in California – how we’ll be doing it, and where we’ll be doing it from. In Part...
This Changes Everything #1: The Future of News in California
In this first episode, we’re taking a look at The Future of News in California, and how the pandemic has added more stress to local newspape...
This Changes Everything: Our New Podcast Series
We're doing a new podcast series about California's post-pandemic future. Here's a quick intro so you know what to expect. Episodes will dro...