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

The Metaverse is a Branding Statement

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...

The Jetsons as futurists

July 31, 2022 was the fictional birthdate of George Jetson, so we thought we’d take a look this week at how The Jetsons has stood up over time in...

The Peril of Romanticism 

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

The Philosophy of Future Tech

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...

Rising From the Ashes

In this week’s 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 Origins of the Metaverse

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 isn’t...

Who’s Afraid of the Future?

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...

John Smart, CEO of Foresight University 

In Episode 14, our guest is John Smart, founder of Foresight University. John shares insights about the practice and practical application of foresight, the distinction between foresight and futurism...

Ranking Futurists 

In this episode, Australian author, speaker and futurist Ross Dawson joins Robert and Brett to talk the path to the future. From tackling the qualities that make a strong...

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