Futurology - A Berggruen Institute Podcast
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Futurology

Powered by ideas from the Berggruen Institute, the Futurology podcast explores the possible and illuminates the preferable paths forward for our planet in the 21st century.
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The future never arrives all at once. It ripples through society long before we know what to call it.

At the Berggruen Institute, we know that we need more than prediction to name what’s next; we need invention. Each week, Institute President Dawn Nakagawa introduces us to scientists and philosophers recalibrating our cosmologies, technologists coming to terms with alien intelligence, and policymakers scrambling to design systems for a world in flux.

Join thinkers and doers from the Berggruen-verse as we imagine a future that we can accomplish together, instead of one that we’re all working to prevent.

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‘Everything Everywhere’ Director Daniel Kwan on the Battle to Keep Storytelling Human
Can AI Prove It? Terence Tao on “Big Math” and Our Theoretical Future
David Chalmers on Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI
Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with Brook Ziporyn and Bing Song)
Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with Refik Anadol and Claire Webb)
The Danger of Perceiving AI as Human (with Anil Seth and Nils Gilman)
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Aliens (with David Gruber and Claire Webb)
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Grant Slater)
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Frank and Claire Isabel Webb)
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken Liu and Nils Gilman)
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with Pascal Lamy and Lorenzo Marsili)
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels)
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan Gardels and Anne-Marie Slaughter)
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with Lauren Bon and Grant Slater)
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana Dasgupta and Jonathan Blake)
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton)
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff and Grant Slater)
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (with Niall Ferguson and Nathan Gardels)
What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen Batchelor and Bing Song)
Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-Fei Li and Dawn Nakagawa)
Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyond (with Vandi Verma and Claire Webb)
After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (with Francis Fukuyama and Nathan Gardels)

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Hosted by Dawn Nakagawa
Executive Producers: Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels, Nils Gilman, Dawn Nakagawa, and Jason Hoch.
Producers: Grant Slater, Alex Gardels, and Nathalia Ramos.
Associate Producer: Elissa Mardiney