The Futurists

The Futurists


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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

Future Imperfect
February 02, 2024

This week hosts Brett King and Katie Miss Metaverse Schultz join a returning guest Thomas Frey to talk about the state of the future. In our last session Thomas gave an excellent demonstration of fu

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS + AI
January 26, 2024

Whats next in robotics with Marc Theermann, the Chief Strategy Officer of Boston Dynamics. Known as "the Bell Labs of robotics, this firm is famous for its mechanical menagerie of legged robots tha

AMAZING FUTURES AT C.E.S.
January 19, 2024

Mark Pesce returns to The Futurists with a report about weird and wonderful discoveries at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show. Every year, 200,000 people converge at CES in Las Vegas to get a glimpse