The Futurists

Hosted ByBrett King

Welcome to the Futurists, where Brett King and co-host Robert Tercek interview the world's foremost super-forecasters, thought leaders, technologists, entrepreneurs, and futurists building the world of tomorrow.

Together, we explore how our world will radically change as AI, bioscience, energy, food & agriculture, computing, the metaverse, the space industry, crypto, resource management, supply chain, and climate will reshape our world over the next 100 years. Join us on The Futurists and we will see you in the future!


All Episodes

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...

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 of Pol.is, a...

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...

Foresight with Joanna Lepore and Ross Dawson

This week, frequent guest and friend of The Futurists, Ross Dawson, takes over the hosting chair to speak with Joanna Lepore about Foresight and Vision(s) of the Future. Ross, founder of...

What’s the end game with Tariffs?

In this week’s show Brett and Rob discuss why the Administration were happy to bring the world’s markets to the brink of global recession and why it’s happening now?...

AI is for Artists | Lauren Ducrey

Lauren Ducrey is a poet who developed an authentic persona for Google’s automated assistant in France, Senegal and other Francophone nations. In the process she discovered insights about the...

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...

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 intelligence. Shelly explains: why...

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,...

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