#consumer adoption

[mattbrittonnyc]

Driving the Future: AI's Impact on Electric Vehicles & Consumer Adoption with Matt Britton

In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology and automotive industries, the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in shaping consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is becoming increasingly pivotal. As businesses and consumers alike seek deeper understanding of this intersection, the need for insights from proven experts in the field is at an all-time high. One such expert who stands out in delivering impactful discourse on this topic is Matt Britton, a renowned AI keynote speaker and the founder and CEO of Suzy, a consumer intelligence platform.

Matt Britton has carved a niche for himself not only as a visionary in consumer trends but also as a trusted advisor to over half of the Fortune 500 companies. His expertise is further evidenced by his bestselling book "YouthNation," which positions him as a leading authority on emerging trends among younger demographics, including Generation Z—key adopters of new technologies such as electric vehicles.

The Intersection of AI and Electric Vehicles: A Keynote Topic

When considering a keynote speech on "AI's Role in Electric Vehicles and Consumer Adoption," Matt Britton is uniquely poised to offer enlightening perspectives that combine his deep understanding of AI, consumer trends, and the automotive industry. This topic, rich in innovation and relevance, is perfectly suited for top conference speakers like Matt, who can articulate complex relationships between technology and consumer behavior in an engaging manner.

Why Matt Britton?

Expertise in AI and Consumer Trends: As an AI expert speaker, Matt brings a wealth of knowledge about how artificial intelligence is transforming industries. His insights into AI’s implications for electric vehicles—from autonomous driving features to predictive maintenance and personalized in-car experiences—are critical for businesses looking to leverage AI for competitive advantage.

Proven Track Record with Fortune 500 Companies: Matt's extensive experience consulting for major corporations gives him a pragmatic understanding of how large-scale organizations can adapt to technological shifts. His ability to translate these insights into strategic advice is invaluable for any audience looking to understand the future of electric vehicles and AI.

Engagement with Generation Z: Matt’s recognition as one of the top Generation Z experts allows him to shed light on how this demographic's preferences and behaviors are shaping the future of transportation. Since younger consumers are more likely to prioritize sustainability and are enthusiastic adopters of technology, their influence on the EV market is significant.

Structuring the Keynote on AI's Role in EVs and Consumer Adoption

Introduction to AI in the Automotive Industry: A brief overview of how AI is currently being integrated into the automotive sector, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of its impact on electric vehicles specifically.

Core AI Technologies Driving EV Innovation: Discussion of specific AI technologies—such as machine learning algorithms, neural networks, and natural language processing—and their applications in electric vehicles. This could include advancements in battery technology through AI-driven research, enhanced safety features, and AI-based user interfaces.

Consumer Adoption of Electric Vehicles: Analysis of current consumer trends in the adoption of electric vehicles, supported by data and insights from Suzy’s platform. This section would explore barriers to adoption, such as range anxiety and cost, and how AI can address these concerns.

The Future Outlook: Predictions for the future interaction between AI and electric vehicles, considering emerging technologies and shifting consumer expectations. This part of the keynote would be forward-thinking, drawing on Matt’s expertise in forecasting consumer trends.

Q&A: A session where Matt can engage directly with the audience, answering questions and expanding on topics covered in his speech, providing additional value and interaction.

Conclusion

Choosing a speaker like Matt Britton for a keynote on “AI's Role in Electric Vehicles and Consumer Adoption” offers more than just an informative session; it promises a thought-provoking and strategic exploration of one of today’s most dynamic technological frontiers. His dual focus on AI and consumer behavior, backed by his authoritative experience with major corporations and insights into young consumers, makes him one of the top keynote speakers for conferences focusing on innovation, technology, and automotive industries. Engaging Matt for your next event could not only enlighten your audience but also inspire them to embrace the transformative power of AI in the electric vehicle sector.

[techdriveplay]

The Rise of Electric Motorcycles

The hum of an engine revving up no longer solely belongs to the realm of gasoline-powered beasts. A quiet revolution is underway on the roads, marked by the increasing presence of electric motorcycles. As the world becomes more conscious of environmental sustainability and technological advances make the once-distant dream of efficient electric mobility a reality, electric motorcycles are swiftly…

[itsredpaint]

the rest of my old mdzs doodle dump i guess

[snowyh2o]

Alastor time travel AU, except he time travels back as Cursed Cat Alastor and gets adopted by Kid Charlie so it’s really just an Alastor is Cursed Cat Alastor AU with time traveling shenanigans.

Alastor gets cursed into (or makes a deal) Cursed Cat Form by something seven years before the pilot and then sent many more years back into the past.

He’s picked up and then unceremoniously adopted by Charlie (Lucifer couldn’t say no, Lilith thought he was adorable).

Charlie names him something very grandiose. Lucifer gives him cutesy not intimidating at all nicknames. He only responds to his full title.

He spends 7 years with Charlie as her pet Cursed Cat.

Hijinks occur.

After the seven years are over he’s returned to the present, 7 more years into the future. Aka right before the pilot. He is no longer cursed into Cursed Cat form.

He now discovers he’s homeless due to the 7 year absence and decides to bunk with Charlie again. The hotel is a wonderful excuse.

There are still some Cursed Cat habits he has a hard time shaking off.

He gets into staring contests with Keekee.

Razzle and Dazzle like to sleep on top of him.

He likes sitting in tall places and staring at the people below him, watching, unblinking, from the darkened shadows.

Has forgotten more than once that cutlery is a thing he can use now.

Charlie finds him oddly familiar.

Can’t decide if it’s funnier to have him remember his time as Charlie’s Cursed Cat or for him to Not Remember or know why exactly he’s so comfortable around Charlie and why he feels the sudden urge to destroy anyone/anything that hurts her.

Leaning towards Not Remember— both for his Cursed Cat time as Alastor and his Alastor time as Cursed Cat (isn’t 100% cognitive of himself as Alastor when he gets cursed into Cat form, and doesn’t really recall the 7 years he spent with Charlie as a cat once he’s back to Alastor form).

Lucifer’s the one who makes the connection between the two. He doesn’t breathe a word of it to anyone (no one would believe him).

There are old missing Cursed Cat Alastor posters all over Hell. They’re often posted next to the Beware the Radio Demon ones. Actually, there are also old warning posters for Cursed Cat Alastor everywhere in Hell.

[hewantshisbrideback]

"M'lady? You look sad. Are you thinking of your sister?" The dwarf patted her on the hand. "The Crone will light your way to her, never fear. The Maiden will keep her safe."

"I pray that you are right."

Brienne II, A Feast for Crows

[kelpiemomma]

forgive the random idea, but I was thinking about how much I love stories about people with power and in power, able to destroy lives and countries without a thought, being immeasurably strong and deadly... Being so soft and gentle towards their child.

Ingo being a god, a god who's been around for millenia. He's seen nations rise and fall, people come into and out of power. He's been revered and feared and forgotten and renamed. He's lived inthe heavens and on the earth. He's been mortal as an immortal, living a human life before dying and returning to godhood. He is old and tired and powerful. He has caused forest fires and destroyed mountains. He has provided bountiful harvests and life saving rains.

And then one day a child is left on the floor of his temple. A pair of wanderers stayed the night, and with nothing else to their names they left their infant behind. Ingo has no idea who they were, barely noticed that they had lingered, but the disturbance of the child left behind - a taste of innocence that lingers on his tongue, like the breeze over a wheat field and the cleanliness of a newborn - has him going to see what was left.

He's never had a child left as an offering, as payment. Sacrifices? Yes. But this one is still alive. She is so small, her eyes so big, and she looks at him without fear. He can't remember the last time he was looked at without fear, without blind devotion. He hesitates to touch her, not sure how to be gentle, and she reaches out first. She grabs his finger and begins to chew on it.

And Ingo is lost.

[stormofdefiance]

Thinkin about this. Thinkin about how Black Swan is so divorced from her own physicality, her own capacity to feel. Thinkin about how when she first looked at Acheron she must have thought those would be interesting memories, but nothing more. Thinkin about her face at the end of Rondo. Flushed and heaving and undeniably quivering from sensation, burnt through with an intensity of feeling that must have left her so ALIVE in that moment. HHHHHHHHHHHHH

[lavampira]

chase your dreams but always know the road that'll lead you home again

[italiantea]

ok dont kill me for this but. i know till is textually supposed to be very gifted and ahead of his peers and all. only character who plays musical instruments etc etc. i just find it very funny that out of all the possibilities. he plays 1) the recorder- the instrument every schoolkid plays in primary school and 2) original songs on the guitar but all hes shown playing is a pop punk song with POWER CHORDS like...where is the genius....the pizzazz.... bro sjould be shredding.... bro should be pulling some polyphia shit....

[kyngsnake]

you know the tough thing about fostering a litter of 9 from birth, knowing you plan to keep one, is how hard it is to actually pick one

[wickedhawtwexler]

yeah it's important to create a character who's flawed but likeable, realistic, interesting, dynamic, etc. but the most important part of creating a character is asking yourself: will the people of www.tumblr.com go insane about them?

[coochiequeens]

Shocking £11bn global trade in babies must end. Here’s what Keir Starmer should do

By Susan Dalgety Published 13th Jul 2024, 06:00 BST

As wealthy people buy babies from poor women whose health often suffers as a result, Keir Starmer should move quickly to ban surrogacy

The global trade in babies is big business. Research company Global Market Insights estimates the surrogacy industry was worth $14 billion (nearly £11bn) in 2022 and expects this to grow to $129bn by 2033.

Celebrities think nothing of renting a woman’s womb to secure a baby. Singer Robbie Williams and his wife used a surrogate for two of their four children. Actor Sarah Jessica Parker, she of Sex and the City fame, was delivered twin girls by a surrogate.

Even government ministers, desperate to have children, turn to this controversial method. Two years ago, the new Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall, revealed in her local newspaper that she and her partner were delighted to announce they were having a baby… through surrogacy.

But it was a decision in Edinburgh Sheriff Court a few days ago that exposed the ethical questions at the heart of this most controversial practice. A judge decided that a 72-year-old man and his now-dead wife were the legal parents of a three-year-old boy, Child A, who had been born in the USA under a surrogacy arrangement.

Sheriff Wendy Sheehan accepted the man was outwith the normal accepted range of parenthood but, in her written judgment, pointed out that he is “active and energetic” and had secured a nursery place for the child and involved him in various age-appropriate activities. He was also “researching boarding schools” for his son’s secondary education.

‘Gestational carrier’

And while Sheriff Sheehan admitted that she would not have granted an adoption order to a man in his 70s, she said the child’s welfare would be compromised if the court did not grant a parental order in these circumstances. “These concerns must be balanced with the fact that A’s welfare would be gravely compromised by the court’s refusal to make an order,” she said, “His gestational carrier has had no contact with him since birth. He is now aged three years and 10 months.”

And there, in a judgment handed down by Edinburgh Sheriff Court, is the reason that surrogacy is unethical. The child’s birth mother, a woman who rented out her womb to elderly strangers in circumstances we will never know, is dismissed as a “gestational carrier”. She is dehumanised. Reduced to nothing more than a living incubator for a rich couple who were far too old to have a baby but wealthy enough to buy one.

A surrogacy pregnancy is also more dangerous for a woman’s health. Only this week, Canadian researchers who looked at the records of nearly one million births revealed that surrogates, who usually become pregnant by IVF, have double the chance of dangerous pregnancy complications such as high blood pressure and heavy bleeding. Around seven per cent of surrogates suffered severe complications, compared with 2.4 per cent of women with natural conceptions and 4.6 per cent who had undergone IVF.

Psychological impact on mothers

Marina Ivanova, the study’s author, said there could be several reasons for this, including the “physiological and psychological impact associated with carrying a pregnancy for another person” and “the socio-demographic characteristics of those who choose to become gestational carriers”. In other words, surrogates are more likely to be women living in poverty, and carrying a baby for strangers will have an adverse impact on a woman’s physical and mental well-being. Tell me again, which aspect of this practice is ethical?

It is a crime in this country to buy and sell human organs such as kidneys because law-makers and the medical profession understand that such a trade could lead to the terrible exploitation of vulnerable people. Yet surrogacy, where a young woman’s body is used to incubate a baby for strangers, is considered perfectly acceptable.

The Surrogacy Arrangements Act of 1985 set out the legal basis for the practice, and last year the Scottish Law Commission and its partner body, the Law Commission of England & Wales, published proposals to liberalise UK surrogacy law even further, including a proposal to allow the “intended parents” to become a child’s legal guardians from birth. At the moment, it can take up to a year for this to happen.

Starmer must act

And while commercial surrogacy is illegal in the UK, “intended parents” can pay a woman “reasonable expenses” to carry a child for them. Many people, including the elderly couple who were the subject of the Edinburgh judgment this week, go abroad to buy a baby. Dr Herjeet Marway of Birmingham University points out that Britons are the largest consumers of the Indian commercial surrogacy industry, which is reportedly worth over £300 million a year.

Little wonder that women’s rights campaigners are now calling for an outright ban on surrogacy, among them Surrogacy Concern. Its founder, Helen Gibson, says that, at the very least, the legal loophole that allows Britons buy a baby outside the UK should be closed. She adds: “It is selfish and grossly irresponsible to pursue surrogacy at all. We call on the UK Government to ban the practice of surrogacy in its entirety.”

The demand for surrogacy is rising. It is driven by people with wealth, same-sex couples, women who are infertile or too old to have a child of their own, and some who are simply “too posh to push”. Even people who in other aspects of their life consider themselves progressive or left of centre seem happy to exploit another human being to get what they crave – a baby to call their own.

But babies should not be for sale. Women are not “gestational carriers”, and surrogacy is a feminist issue. The new Prime Minister has a never-ending to-do list, but if he is serious about building a country where every single person is treated with respect, as he promised only last week, then he should start with a ban on surrogacy.

[meat-loving-meat]

I’m thinking about Modern!AUs in fanfiction and why sometimes they’re some of my favorite fics and also sometimes the Worst™️. (<-that is a joke. There is no such thing as bad fanfiction, just fanfiction I don’t personally like.)

Because I LOVE Modern!AUs that ask interesting questions about how the setting of a story impacts the characters—how much of the setting can you remove while still being able to recognize the characters in question? All of it? None of it? What new problems would living in a world with planes and phones create for these characters? How are the social and political tensions of the original canon reflected in our own world?

The “problem” (again, not an actual problem, just a personal preference) is that most Modern!AUs COMPLETELY refuse to engage with any of that. They instead become a stale rehashing of the original canon except with lower stakes. Nothing about the modern setting adds interest, and everything interesting from the original setting falls away.

I think that a lot of people write Modern!AU fics to deescalate the conflict of the original canon and give the characters more relatable problems, which isn’t universally terrible, but it can so easily become boring. I don’t WANT to know what it would be like if one of these characters was a florist and the other was a tattoo artist; I want to know what would happen if you gave one of them a gun.

[magnifiico]

the pjo brainrot's got hands so i apologize for the continued "quietly hiding in my drafts/inbox" on this blog („ಡωಡ„);

i am still #Obsessed with all my interactions and dynamics so far (super stoked to explore more in the new year!) and have legitimately been loving responding to you talented folks, so please don't take my ooc silence or lack of presence on the dash as a lack of interest! <3

happy new year, folks! i hope 2024 treats everyone well and you have a splendid start to the year!

[hyperfixatinglove]

My sims adventures caused me to be attached to name Zafira because that's what I named my & ZEUS' daughter in Sims when I was creating us but ultimately deleted and now it won't leave me alone

@princess-hope-selfships

[gingerblivet]

TIL that the Common Vampire Bat begins to pee out the water from its meal within two minutes of beginning to feed

Which makes sense, given that blood is effectively cells swimming in a plasma soup which is almost entirely water, and the bats would need to shed that extra weight quickly in order to get back home.

Still, this has some… interesting implications for contemporary vampire fiction, if I’m being honest