PODCAST · science
The Futurists
by Brett King, JP Nicols, Jason Henrichs
#1 Global Fintech Network
Episodes
-
The Philosophy of Consciousness
In this week’s Futurist network we are joined live in the Dubai studio with two active AI architects, Jean-Baptiste Isnard (founder of Quantum Spirit) and Dr. Julia Michelin (founder of LumaBrush AI) a returning guest. The issue of whether AI is conscious continues to be debated at large but the...
-
The Voice of the Future
Alex Serdiuk is the co-founder and CEO of AI voice company Respeecher in Kiev. Alex and Rob Tercek discuss how synthetic voice generation will transform the motion picture industry, including some surprising reversals such as: how AI voices will change the global distribution strategy for feature...
-
Open Source and Superintelligence
Independent AI researcher Mark Pesce returns to the Futurists with an update on the latest advances in open source artificial intelligence. Mark talks to co-hosts Brett King and Rob Tercek about a wide range of topics: small open-source models that run on the desktop and the smartphone; AI agents...
-
Power is China’s AI Advantage
In this week’s episode hosts Rob Tercek and Brett King do a deep dive into the rapidly aging energy grid in the US and how this may be the biggest flaw in the US’ desire to win the race to AGI and a future smart economy. China today produces daily more solar energy than all the power plants in…
more -
Finding Signal Amid the AI Noise
Mark Ghuneim is an American internet entrepreneur, activist, and art curator who has launched pioneering ventures in many fields including music, digital marketing, television, privacy advocacy, and fine art. Today he is co-founder of Narrative.New, which harnesses the power of AI for creative...
-
Infinite Innovation
Can a company use AI to be capable of infinite adaptability? Brian Solis and Dave Wright believe that right approach to deploying AI in large enterprises is a two-model process, first to find efficiency and create savings, and second, to invest those savings into accelerated innovation. In their...
-
Mass Media and Artificial Intelligence with Jeff Jarvis
To understand the future, it’s best to begin by studying the past. Jeff Jarvis returns to the Futurists to share a lively summary of the long arc of mass media, and he unpacks several valuable lessons for our present moment. Jeff’s new book Hot Type provides a compelling account of the long...
-
The Future Of Healthcare
This week on the futurists host Brett King sits down with Dr Julia Michelin to discuss the future of healthcare and how AI, gene-therapy, robotics, neural interfaces, cybernetics, 3D bio printing and other bio-tech is going to transform human society and culture.
-
The Watershed with Mark Pesce
In November 2025, the global techno-economy shifted subtly, then dramatically, as AI agents became viable additions to the workforce. Mark Pesce has documented these changes, what he refers to as “The Watershed”, in a remarkable series of articles at https://thewatershed.markpesce.com/. Pesce…
more -
Fututistae Londinienses
This week on The Futurists we are joined by David Wood from the London Futurists, Rohit Telwar CEO of Fast Future, Andrew Grill the Actionable Futurist, and Dr. Julia Michelin, CEO/Founder and author of The Future of Dentistry. It’s an all star cast as we delve into the forecasts for tomorrow…
more -
AI Music Rings The Bell
Marcus “Bellringer” Bell is a musical polymath: songwriter, producer and technological pioneer. His credits include collaborations with Beyoncé, Niki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, Timbaland and music featured by Amazon, HBO, Netflix. Marcus has used AI to generate tens of thousands of songs in multiple...
-
Future of Human Consciousness in an AI-Driven World
What if AI could replicate your consciousness? Listen as Brett King connects with Paolo Sironi, host of Provoke.fm's The Banker's Bookshelf about Paolo's latest book, Quantum Sapiens. Paolo's foray into literary fiction explores the intersection of quantum gravity, philosophy, and the future of...
-
AI’s Disposable Workers
Paul Osterman, MIT labor economist and author of Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment , tells Rob Tercek about the fastest-growing category of the US workforce in the age of artificial intelligence. According to Osterman, a rising number of employers prefer to hire three…
more -
Biological Intelligence
Adrian Woolfson, the CEO and co-founder of the biotech company Genyro, joins the Futurists to chat about the audacious vision that animates his book On The Future of Species. Woolfson conceives of a Artificial Biological Intelligence that will unify diverse fields of genomic research into a new...
-
The Artist In Dialog With AI
In 2024, Bay Raitt and Rob Tercek co-founded a generative AI startup with experts in machine learning and computer graphics to build agentic tools and workflows optimized for artists. Bay is a polymath: an artist, storyteller, animator, game designer, comic book author. He plays LLMs like a...
-
The Invisible Interface
What happens when the software you use starts acting independently? Harry Glorikian calls this the invisible interface, and in this episode he unpacks the implications of unseen agency and autonomy in the future workforce. Topics: the personal interface layer; the memory war; who owns the context...
-
Digitally Curious Future
This week when two Australian futurists walk into a pub in London...well, almost! This week host Brett King and fellow Aussie futurist Andrew Grill sit down for a discussion on what the future means. This is a mashup of The Futurists and the Digitally Curious podcast which Andrew hosts. The...
-
The Company of the Future with Tatyana Mamut
Wayfound.AI is one of the most exciting new ventures in Silicon Valley. CEO Tatyana Mamut joins the Futurists to share her vision of the agentic company of the future, where AI agents supervise a swarm of workforce comprised of subordinate agents, on behalf of human managers who cannot work 24x7....
-
Back to the Moon
This week Captain Scott Kelly returns to the podcast with Brett King to talk Artemis II and NASA’s announcement of its intention to put a permanent base on the moon. Capt Kelly piloted and commanded shuttle missions before spending an entire year as commander of the International Space Station.…
more -
The Geopolitical Divergence
This week the three hosts Rob, Ross and Brett are back in the studio debating the likely turning point in Geopolitical history from the Iran War, the resultant energy crisis, combined with the emerging demand for energy and compute based on AI. The world is irreversibally changing and The…
more -
Everybody’s Robot Fighting
In this week’s Futurists episode Brett interviews bestselling author Igor Pejic on how AI and technology investment is changing valuations of defense industry players. Pejic is the author of Tech Money: A guide to the new game of technology investing. In this wide ranging conversation, Brett and...
-
Surviving the AI Apocalypse
This week Brett interviews South African futurist Bronwyn Williams, co-author of Surviving the AI Apocalypse. The discussion ranges from how we will work side by side with AI (not doing jobs but “work”) and the philosophical dilemmas that humanity faces as AI has greater and greater impact. This…
more -
How Quitters Win
Quit to win” is the unconventional advice given by entrepreneur Francesco Urso, who has written a book by that title. Urso explains to The Futurists how the best career strategy in a time of turmoil is to create your own company. In this episode, he explains how to surmount the barriers of fear…
more -
The Truth
Steve Rosenbaum is an author and entrepreneur who co-founded the Sustainable Media Center, where he advocates for better protection for the users of abusive social media platforms. Now in his new book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, Steve turns his attention to the perils of a…
more -
Simulating The Human Body
Visualizing the interior of the human body has always presented a major challenge to caregivers. Most medical imaging techniques in use today were first introduced during the past fifty years. Today novel technologies for entertainment are being applied to healthcare. Michael Hollins of the...
-
Storytelling Beyond Limits
In this powerfully inspiring talk, Futurists co-founder Robert Tercek shares insights from his four years of collaboration with technologists to build artificial intelligence tools that empower artists to create cinematic stories. In February 2026, Tercek shared these remarks as the keynote…
more -
The Price Whisperer
Price is the most important signal in a market economy. But in a distorted market, prices no longer provide reliable information to consumers. For startup ventures, getting the price wrong can be a fatal mistake. Per Sjofors is the “price whisperer.” He uses AI to help companies determine the...
-
Machine Digital Souls
In this episode Cecilia Tham takes us through the intersection of science, design, and business to build things that don’t exist yet. As the founder of Futurity Systems, Cecilia leads a team providing Futures-as-a-Service for global companies and government agencies. Moving beyond speculation…
more -
Intelligent Health Care With Suneel Ratan
Globally the cost of health care is exploding. In the United States, the problem is particularly severe because system is fragmented across many providers and highly inefficient. Economic incentives intensify the problem among private films. Suneel Ratan, CEO of Precognitive, is on a mission to...
-
Fighting The Future
An erratic President, a bungled raid on American cities, two fatal shootings by ICE agents, a massive protest by thousands of citizens in Minneapolis and other US cities, and flood of dishonest and misleading statements by Presidential aides and cabinet members: the United States begins 2026 in...
-
The Living Story
As the founder of The Future of Storytelling, Charles Melcher curates a collection of the world’s most provocative and vivid immersive experiences. To Charlie, future stories won’t be linear or confined to the pages of a book: they will be participatory and responsive. Charlie tells The Futurists...
-
The Future Economy is Hyperglobal and Hyperlocal
Global economist Peter Middlebrook has advised governments in many nations on modernization and economic policy, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, Rwanda, Afghanistan, India, and the UK as well as the United Nations, the EU and the World Bank. He joins the Futurists to share his perspective...
-
Why AI Needs JEPA World Models
The Futurists starts 2026 with a stimulating conversation with serial entrepreneur Matt Miesnieks, a true pioneer of AR/XR and spatial computing. In his new startup venture, Primate AI, Matt is focused on a novel approach to artificial intelligence. He intends to construct spatial and dimensional...
-
Imagining Life With Super Intelligence with Akshay Chopra
Technology innovator Akshay Chopra joins the Futurists to discuss his new book: “After Us: A Tale of Life Beyond Superintelligent AI.” In this work of speculative fiction, Chopra posits scenarios of a world dominated by a benevolent superintelligence. Topics include: the challenge of envisioning…
more -
Inside Gaza: Arwa Damon on Crisis, Resilience, and Access
This week, The Futurists offers a human interest story from Brett’s conference travels. Listen as Brett connects with Arwa Damon, former CNN reporter based in Istanbul, and current President and Founder of INARA, an NGO working in Palestine.INARA, International Network for Aid, Relief and...
-
How to Scale AI in the Enterprise
Industry strategist John Sviokla is the co-founder of GAI Insights and an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He tells the Futurists about the real challenges and opportunities in the process of reorganizing businesses around unlimited intelligence. Topics include: The existential...
-
How AI Agents Will Disrupt The Media Ecosystem
Shelly Palmer returns to the Futurists to share fresh insight about how AI agents will rearrange the way entertainment and news are published, distributed and monetized. Today, many of the biggest media companies are still reeling from the previous two rounds of digital disruption (web and…
more -
Accelerating Innovation with Mike Pell
Mike Pell is an author, an artist and the director of the Microsoft Garage, the worldwide innovation program where he applies “fast design” principles to bring ideas to prototypes quickly. Mike's hackathons scale to include 10,000 participants. Mike tells the Futurists how artificial intelligence...
-
Filming the Future
This week Brett is joined by guest host Kevin J. Anderson as the futurists have a conversation with science fiction documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Morris on his new documentary reviewing world of Space 1999. We also discuss coming Mars and Moon plans.
-
The 3D Future
The future of computing is 3D, according to Avi Bar Zeev. For three decades, this creative technologist has played a part in the creation of every major advance in spatial computing, immersive media, and XR. This week, Avi joins the Futurists to explain how previous breakthroughs will make the…
more -
Futurists Summit In Dubai
The future in Dubai is so brilliant, you need sunglasses. This week Brett and Rob talk to their colleague and business partner Mohamed Alkhatib about the key findings and hot topics they covered at the first Futurists X Summit. Why Dubai? Learn about the bold steps that the United Arab Emirates…
more -
The AI Reshuffle
Sangeet Paul Choudary is the world’s leading exponent of the platform economy. This week he joins the Futurists to explain how artificial intelligence is likely to reorganize industries. Choudary pushes far beyond facile claims about “AI abundance” and “AI doom” to analyze the probable...
-
Logistics and Power
Susan Zieger, the author of “Logistics and Power”, joins the Futurists to share her insight about global trade and control. Global trade and logistics requires a hierarchy of control to ensure timely, reliable delivery. That’s why power is an emergent principle of the global supply chain. For...
-
Rethinking Mass Media with Evan Shapiro
Media cartographer Evan Shapiro publishes the definitive chart of the global media industry cited by every pundit and trade publication. After 20 years of disruptive change, the media industry is evolving so quickly beyond recognition that Evan’s chart has emerged as the universal scorecard to…
more -
The Next War
Best selling author M.P. “Mike” Woodward joins the Futurists to share scenarios for the future of the next major naval war in the Pacific. How might a war between the United States and China happen? According to Woodward, it begins with a struggle to control the chips that govern artificial...
-
Black Holes and our Future
This week The Futurists welcomes celebrated experimental astrophysicist Prof Brian Cox. Prof Cox dives into why our understanding of black holes and what it means for quantum information theory could change our fundamental understanding of the universe and usher in a new era of scientific...
-
Quantum Days
In this week’s episode Steve Suarez from Horizon X Quantum and one of the speakers at the Futurists Summit discusses the reality of the famed Q-Day or Quantum Day - a date sometime in the near future when Quantum computers can break our existing RSA encryption technologies exposing banks,...
-
Future City
Think about the place where you live. Every inch of every city and suburb has been designed by other humans. For better or worse, their choices determine how the world around you works, and how you live and navigate through it. Jeff Speck is the world’s leading exponent of the concept of the...
-
Vibe Forecasting
What happens when lazy humans outsource their thought process to machines? You get a society that vibes its way into a blurry, sub-optimal future. The surge of slop means that AI is creating more work for humans instead of stealing our jobs. Mark Pesce returns to The Futurists to cut through the...
-
In the Age of AI, Data Is Everything
This week Brett interview he founder of the world’s first data savings account and data wallet ecosystem, Andre Vellozo of Drumwave. Vellozo makes a compelling case that GDPR and data privacy regulations won’t work in the age of AI, that we need data ownership structures and the ability to…
more
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
#1 Global Fintech Network
HOSTED BY
Brett King, JP Nicols, Jason Henrichs
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does The Futurists have?
The Futurists currently has 203 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Futurists about?
#1 Global Fintech Network
How often does The Futurists release new episodes?
The Futurists publishes regularly with 203 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
Where can I listen to The Futurists?
You can listen to The Futurists on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts The Futurists?
The Futurists is created and hosted by Brett King, JP Nicols, Jason Henrichs.
URL copied to clipboard!