The Futurists

12/20/2024

Monika Bielskyte is a futures researcher and designer currently based in South Africa by way of Lithuania. She conveys to Brett and Rob her vision for a radi...

11/20/2024

Hi Friends of the Futurists, it's Robert Tercek with a special request. My co-host and friend Brett King has been nominated as one of the world's leading futurists.

Will you please click through to cast your vote for Brett?

If you've enjoyed Brett's work on the podcast, or if you've had the pleasure of reading his excellent books or seeing his many keynote speeches, then please consider voting for him.

Brett is a tireless proponent of future thinking. He does an enormous amount to promote the work of other futurists and foresighters.

And he travels the world constantly to reach new audiences with his message about how to build the future that you envision.

I honestly do not know anyone who is more devoted to the art and science of future forecasting than Brett King. I appreciate your support!

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11/13/2024

Humanity’s largest and most complex invention is the global supply chain. More than 2 millions companies in 118 nations participate in the supply chain via GS1, the non-profit organization that manages data standards for global trade. Melanie Hilton of GS1 US is one of the world’s leading expert...

11/02/2024

Chief Tashka Yawanawa, of the Yawanawa tribe in the heart of the Acre River region in the Amazon rainforest joins Brett King to talk the effects of climate change and deforestation happening today in the world’s largest rainforest. The Yawanawa tribe are custodians of over 400 Hectares of Amazonian land and we get to hear first hand.

If you have any doubt in your mind that climate change is impacting the planet, this is one you must listen to with an open mind.

This week we have an extraordinary show. Chief Tashka Yawanawa, of the Yawanawa tribe in the heart of the Acre River region in the Amazon rainforest joins Brett King to talk the effects of climate change and deforestation happening today in the world’s largest rainforest. The Yawanawa tribe are cu...

11/02/2024

In this week’s episode of The Futurists, David Orban joins Brett King in the hosting chair and we get to talk Quantum with Roberto Siagri, a theoretical phys...

10/29/2024

In this week’s show we interview Neal Baer, M.D. an award-winning showrunner, television writer/producer, physician, author and a public health advocate and expert. Apart from ER, Neal also worked on Designated Survivor, and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

Today he is the Co-Director of the M.S. in Media, Medicine, and Health Program, at Harvard Medical School. We discuss his new book The Promise and Peril of and get into where the tech is at and where it will take us, and the ways we might navigate ethical mine fields. We get sci-fi too – Join us!

In this week’s show we interview Neal Baer, M.D. an award-winning showrunner, television writer/producer, physician, author and a public health advocate and expert. Apart from ER, also worked on Designated Survivor, snd Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Today he is the Co-Director of the M.S. i...

10/05/2024

08/19/2024

Historically, the cost of banking has been a barrier to inclusion. Digital wallets are changing that. See how this modality shift is paving the way for broader access. Read here: https://tinyurl.com/564dr2zn

08/18/2024

New trend in filmed entertainment. Once again, mainstream Hollywood studios ignore the early signals at their peril.

Apps like ReelShort are raking in tens of millions of dollars with series like Fated to My Forbidden Alpha.

08/17/2024

The legendary David Brin joins Brett King and Robert Tercek this week to discuss the Western Enlightenment, geopolitics, socio-economic system evolution and the philosophy of the future. A mind-bending trip to the future

In this week’s episode we see the return of the philosopher futurist and award-winning science fiction author David Brin. We talk through the Fermi paradox, the ongoing civil war in the US, the geopolitical changes that are coming and how we get humanity to a place of real enlightenment. Brin brin...

08/05/2024

Another science fiction legend joining the amazing guests we are pleased to feature on our podcast. This week CHARLES (CHARLIE) STROSS the Locus, Multi Hugo Award and Prometheus Award, Arthur C Clarke winning author of Accelerando, Saturn's Children, the Apocalypse Codex, the Laundry Files series and more.

Charlie's amazing take on the world stage and how Sci-Fi reflects our various human philosophies, politics and flaws. Not one you want to miss

Let us know which legendary sci-fi author you'd like to hear from next!

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In this week’s show we interview the legendary British science fiction author Charlie Stross. From Accelerando through to the Laundry Files we talk through how politics and social dynamics of our day tend to inform science fiction and why science fiction authors should be thought of as hi-brow ent...

08/02/2024

Have a phenomenal weekend all. Do something epic!