A replay from VISIONS Summit: NYC featuring YouTuber and architect Dami Lee.
From the stage of VISIONS Summit at MoMA, Dami Lee reveals why the most chaotic spaces often teach us the most about what it means to be human.
27 Jun 2025
LIVE @ NYC: "Five Thousand Years" Only Brands Survive
A replay from VISIONS Summit: NYC featuring Future Commerce Co-Founder Phillip Jackson
What happens when you bury the essence of an entire civilization fifty feet underground? Live from VISIONS Summit: NYC, Future Commerce co-founder Phillip Jackson takes us on an archaeological journey through time capsules—from the monuments of the Westinghouse's World's Fair to NASA's Golden Record floating through space. Through the lens of these cultural artifacts, we explore a provocative thesis: that commerce is culture, and in five thousand years, only brands will survive to tell our story.
31 Oct 2023
When Selling Out is Buying In
The world’s most recognizable brands employ artists and storytellers to preserve their legacy. Today, on Episode 2 of the second season of VISIONS, we're going live to the VISIONS Summit, recorded in June of 2023, in Chicago, and we'll listen in to our special guest, José Cabaço, the former Global Creative and Storytelling Director of Adidas and Orchid Bertelsen, the COO of Common Thread Collective and former Head of Innovation at Nestle Foods. Two experts who discuss the very real challenges we face in an ever more artificial world.
8 Oct 2023
Where is the Counterculture? On the Rise of the Critic Class
This season on VISIONS will explore the content of VISIONS: Volume IV by Future Commerce. VISIONS is an audio-visual Annual Trends report that examines the changes in culture and commerce and their impacts on the technology industry that serves them. VISIONS: Volume IV took place over three months, from April to June 2023, bookended by two events.
Today we go live to the first of those events at the Celeste Bartos Theater at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where we'll speak with a panel of modern culture reporters, foresight analysts, and media creators and ask them the question, “Where is the counterculture?”
23 Feb 2023
The Profitability of Distraction
The fight for our attention is key to understanding the modern media landscape, startup culture, capital allocation, and more importantly and ultimately, our economic system as a whole. Today we go live to the Visions Summit to ask the question, "Just how profitable can distraction be? And can we claw back any semblance of mindfulness without sacrificing prosperity?" Listen now!
19 Jan 2023
The Celebration of Insincerity
Has the push for engagement over enlightenment led to a rise of insincerity from brands and the way they interact with the public? Should brands comment on controversial topics such as politics and how can they do so authentically without perpetuating this celebration of insincerity we see among us? This is a conversation that needs to be had because it affects all of us. Listen now!
11 Jan 2023
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Network Effects in Software Ecosystems
How does looking around at what others are buying affect purchasing behavior and why does that matter? Why do companies have to be aware of their own tendencies to be tempted to keep up with the Joneses and how can they balance risk-taking and differentiation with also building on a secure tech stack?
21 Dec 2022
The Homogenization of Experiences
How can brands differentiate themselves while remaining intuitive and familiar to consumers? Are your car, phone, or shoes an outward sign of your personality? What is leading to the trend of odd-ball, zany web designs?
21 Nov 2022
Episode 6: Sacraments of Commerce: Have Brands Become Proto-Religions?
There's been a lot of talk about this place that brands take in our lives that tries to fulfill meaning and purpose and community in all of our lives. And we've given a term to this today. We're talking about The Sacraments of Commerce. A lot of brands today ask us to put some faith in them or to believe in them. And what about the algorithm gods?
2 Sept 2022
Episode 5: The Role of Commerce in Society
The growth of corporate responsibility, employee wellness, and ESG signals a change in how we think of Commerce in the world. Is Commerce meant to be a change agent? Are we to think of corporations as entities that bring about change, and how do we ensure that they act on our behalf for good in the world? Listen now.
29 Jul 2022
Episode 4: Our Sh*itty Robot Future
We live in a world that doesn’t work all the way. Is the amount of automation and machine learning and AI and even robotics that we're implementing in the world, displacing people's jobs and having a human impact?
22 Jul 2022
Episode 3: Romanticism
Live from the Visions Summit in West Palm Beach, FL, the conversation in this episode is around what we call Brand Romanticism. We’ve seen such an amazing proliferation of brand. There's more choice than ever before. Some say that brands are our canvas and the products are these new pieces of art that are being brought to the world. Are brands artists and our products their canvas?
15 Jul 2022
Episode 2: The Discourse
What makes people happy? Are brands capable of instilling happiness? In today's episode, we go live to the Visions Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, to engage in a frank conversation about what motivates a consumer, and what power we truly have in fulfilling their needs and desires. Listen now.
8 Jul 2022
Episode 1: A Prologue
A true prologue episode, we explore why we set out to create Visions, and what the goal is behind making a new content property. We prepare for our first season of Visions by exploring how this podcast will be different from other Future Commerce properties, and how we expect you, the listener, to approach this season's content.
10 Jun 2022
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Visions is an audiovisual trends report that explores the intersection of art, culture, consumer, and modernity. Get an advance copy of the report at https://visions.report
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