The Futurists

The Futurists


Latest Episodes

Rethinking Retail with Steve Dennis
April 12, 2024

Whats next for retail shops and shopping malls? The previous decade was excruciating for national retail chains. Steve Dennis, the author of Remarkable Retail and Leaders Leap, explains how shopping

AI & The Search for Longevity
April 05, 2024

This week we get into AI in health care, generative and personalized medicine, the cure for cancer and why CoVID helped supercharge that and how AI is helping us live longer, healthier lives. Alex Zha

Media Chaos with Alan Wolk
March 29, 2024

For decades, we cursed at evil cable and satellite TV companies. Now TV has been unbundled. Streaming on-demand video is available on every device. Surprise, surprise, nobody is happy. The cost of t

SPECIAL EPISODE – MINISTER FOR THE FUTURE – PART 2
March 22, 2024

We're back this week with the final part of the amazing interview with world-leading futurist and science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson. We delve into generational thinking around economics and

SPECIAL EPISODE – MINISTER FOR THE FUTURE – PT 1
March 15, 2024

This week The Futurists hosts Brett, Rob and Katie host a guest that NY Times calls "one of the world's most acclaimed living science fiction writers" - Kim Stanley Robinson. We dive into the Mars Tri

EQUALITY VERSUS POLYCRISIS with Common Future
March 08, 2024

Is inequality the inevitable byproduct of accelerating change? Can we reverse the winner-take-all dynamic? Common Future is a think and do tank" dedicated to closing the racial wealth gap by empower

The New Global Order with Markku Wilenius
March 01, 2024

Dr. Markku Wilenius is the Unesco Chair in Learning Society and Futures Education. This week on The Futurists, Markku shares his global perspective on emerging trends and regional conflicts, including

Cloud Capitalism with Yanis Varoufakis
February 23, 2024

Capitalism is dead, according to Yanis Varoufakis, the author of Technofeudalism. This week on The Futurists youll learn about the dramatic reconfiguration of the global economy, whereby profit has b

Biohacking Longevity 
February 16, 2024

In this weeks TF, Brett King interviews Swedish Biohacker and Futurist, Hannes Sjoblad. The two futurists get into the evolution of biohacking and longevity treatments, the merging of man and machine

Spatial Computing goes Mainstream
February 09, 2024

In this week's show we authorsand industry commentators Irena Cronin and Robert Scoble. Their new bookThe Immersive Metaverse Playbook for Business Leadersgives us a glimpseinto the post Apple Vis