The Futurists

The Futurists


Latest Episodes

Metaverse and Weaponized Tech
September 02, 2022

Award-winning author and technologist Mark Pesce tells us about the deep history of todays consumer technology in military R&D including the 30 year arc of the Metaverse which Pesce himself kickstart

NASA’s 7 Minutes of Terror
August 26, 2022

This week we speak to a NASA veteran Wanda Harding about the future of space exploration, human boots on Mars (and back on the moon, and educating people to be passionate about the universe and explor

The unlimited potential of humanity
August 19, 2022

In this weeks episode Brett King and Robert Tercek, Bretts The Futurists cohost, interview two-time presidential candidate, entrepreneur, journalist and futurist, Zoltan Istvan. We dive into how the

The Metaverse is a Branding Statement
August 12, 2022

In the digital domain, marketing is technology. Glenn White builds advertising systems for brand managers inside game worlds. In this episode of The Futurists, Glenn explains the complex strategic de

The Jetsons as futurists
August 05, 2022

July 31, 2022 was the fictional birthdate of George Jetson, so we thought wed take a look this week at how The Jetsons has stood up over time in respect to its vision of the future. Its just Rob

The Peril of Romanticism 
July 29, 2022

In Episode 19 of The Futurists, David Brin expounds on the interplay between scientific research and storytelling in shaping societys future. An astrophysicist, prolific science fiction author and th

The Philosophy of Future Tech
July 22, 2022

In this episode Robert and Brett talk to futurist, entrepreneur David Orban, who talks us through the early days of the internet and crypto to where he thinks we're going as a society with increasingl

Rising From the Ashes
July 15, 2022

In this weeks episode of The Futurists, Peter Hinssen joins the dynamic duo to talk the new normal of constant technology change and his new book The Phoenix and The Unicorn. A specialist in corporat

The Origins of the Metaverse
July 08, 2022

In this episode of the Futurists, OG of Web 3 Tony Parisi joins Tercek and King to talk how the metaverse came to be, and why Web 3 isnt just about the metaverse but foundational for our Augmented fu

Who’s Afraid of the Future?
July 01, 2022

In this episode we learn from John Hagel, one of the prophets of digital transformation. For more than 30 years John has been guiding global organizations through the process of digital reinvention as