All Episodes

Bayo Akomolafe - The Untimely

Eric Ries - Incorruptible by Design

Melody Jue - Ocean Memory

Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane - The Geometry of Consciousness

Stefan Sagmeister - Finally, something good.

Indy Johar - Civilizational Optioneering

Kate Crawford - Mapping Empires

Lynn Rothschild - Nature’s Hardware Store: Building the Future with Biology

Blaise Agüera y Arcas - What is Intelligence?

Kim Carson - Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era

K Allado-McDowell - On Neural Media

Sara Imari Walker - An Informational Theory of Life

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Michael Pollan - Abundance

Stephen Heintz & Kim Stanley Robinson - A Logic For The Future

Benjamin Bratton - A Philosophy of Planetary Computation

Ahmed Best - Feel The Future: A Valentine's Evening

Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth - What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History

Neal Stephenson - Polostan

The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture - Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante

Indigenous Sovereign Futures - Jonathan Cordero

Denise Hearn - Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World

Jared Farmer - Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees

Abby Smith Rumsey - Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures

Henry Farrell - The Complex Aftermath of Globalization

Coco Krumme - The False Promise of Optimization

Bette Adriaanse & Chelsea T. Hicks - Radical Sharing

Climate Parables - Climate Fiction Storytellers

Resisting Dystopia - Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz

Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation - Ryan Phelan

Jenny Odell - Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock

Parag Khanna - Why Mobility is Destiny

Ismail Ali - Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads

Eric Debrah Otchere - Sonic Spaces: A Psychology of Music and Work

Ryan North - How to Invent Everything

Alicia Eggert - This Moment Used To Be The Future

Johanna Hoffman - Speculative Futures

Jonathan Haidt - Democracy in the Next Cycle of History

Michael Tubbs - Upsetting The Setup: Creating a California for All

Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization - Edward Slingerland

Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth - Creon Levit

Dorie Clark - The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world

John Markoff - Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

Kim Stanley Robinson - Climate Futures: Beyond 02022

Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley - Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

Neal Stephenson - Termination Shock

David Rooney - A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

Kate Darling - The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future

Prerna Singh - State, Society & Vaccines

Wade Davis - Activist Anthropology

Suzanne Simard - Mother Trees and the Social Forest

Adam Rogers - Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception

Sean Carroll - The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life

Alexander Rose - Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations

Nathaniel Rich - Second Nature

Peter Leyden - The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050

Jason Tester - Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All

James Nestor - The Future of Breathing

Nadia Eghbal - The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure

Roman Krznaric - Becoming a Better Ancestor

Julia Watson - Design By Radical Indigenism

Genevieve Bell - The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI

Craig Childs - Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America

Peter Calthorpe - Urban Planet: Ecology, Community, and Growth Through the Next Century

Lonny J Avi Brooks - When Is Wakana: Imagining Afrofutures

Brian Fisher - Edible Insects: Where Land Conservation and Protein Meet

Frank Ostaseski - What the Dying Teach the Living: Death During a Pandemic

Rick Doblin - Transformational Psychedelics

Laurance Doyle - Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Jane Metcalfe - The Neobiological Revolution

Multiple Speakers - Long Conversation

Eric Ries - Long-Term Stock Exchange

Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading - Robert McIntyre

24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week - Tiffany Shlain

Bina Venkataraman - Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World

Andrew McAfee - More From Less

Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology - Adrienne Mayor

We're in the Wrong Timeline - Annalee Newitz

Suhanya Raffel - World Art Through The Asian Perspective

The Loop: Decision Technology and How to Resist It - Jacob Ward

Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History - Lewis Dartnell

Horological Heritage - Brittney Cox

Monica L. Smith - Cities: The First 6,000 Years

The Shape Of Data And Things To Come - Gurjeet Singh

Marcia Bjornerud - Timefulness

Mariana Mazzucato - Rethinking Value

Fall, or Dodge in Hell - Neal Stephenson

David Byrne - Good News & Sleeping Beauties

Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me

Growing Up Ape, The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives - Elizabeth Londsdorf

Can Nationalism Be a Resource for Democracy? - Maya Tudor

Jeff Goodell - The Water Will Come

Charting the High Frontier of Space - Ed Lu

Chip Conley - The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace

John Brockman - Possible Minds

The Evolving Science of Behavior Change - Christopher Bryan

The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action? - Jamie Jones

Siberia, A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe - Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, and Alexander Rose

Martin Rees - Prospects for Humanity

Niall Ferguson - Networks and Power

Learning From Le Guin - Kim Stanley Robinson