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What is Jony Ive cooking?
This week Brett and Rob take a check on the latest in AI news diving into the growing requirements for AI infrastructure, and the advances being made in Agentic-AI. We dive into Anthropic and Open AI
Doug Shapiro on Hollywood’s AI Future
Doug Shapiro, one of the leading analysts of trends in the media and entertainment industry, explains how Hollywood now faces a second phase of digital transformation. First, the Internet unbundled me
Colin Megill on Computational Democracy
Colin Megill joins the Futurists to describe a new model for finding consensus in a time of political chaos and intense partisan division. He is the inventor ofPol.is, a powerful open-source platform
The Future of Money & Machine Identity
In this week's episode of THE FUTURISTS, host Brett King sits down one on one with Dave Birch to talk about the future of AI based payments, money and the concepts around Agentic AI such as KYA (Know-
Foresight with Joanna Lepore and Ross Dawson
This week, frequent guest and friend ofThe Futurists,Ross Dawson, takes over the hosting chair to speak with Joanna Lepore about Foresight and Vision(s) of the Future. Ross, founder of AHT Group
What’s the end game with Tariffs?
In this weeks show Brett and Rob discuss why the Administration were happy to bring the worlds markets to the brink of global recession and why its happening now? Is this a massive, economy scale P
AI is for Artists | Lauren Ducrey
Lauren Ducrey is a poet who developed an authentic persona for Googles automated assistant in France, Senegal and other Francophone nations. In the process she discovered insights about the intersect
Humanity’s Future in Space with Scott Kelly
This week on The Futurists retired-NASA astronaut and pilot of the Space Shuttle, is a former F14 fighter pilot, a test pilot, an engineer, and a veteran of four space flights. Kelly commanded the Int
When Quantum Meets AI
Technology strategist Shelly Palmer returns to The Futurists to demystify abstruse concepts of quantum computing in practical terms with his characteristically sharp insights about artificial intellig
The Other Side of The Future
Cory Doctorow has a unique ability to peel away the polished veneer of familiar social and economic structures to expose their inner workings. Sometimes what he reveals is ugly, sometimes delightful,