The Futurists

05/23/2025

Hyperpartisan political polarization is exhausting and destructive. It's a dumb way to govern any nation, and yet in every democracy the divisions are growing deeper and the opposition more entrenched.

If you are bored by these political dynamics and yearn for an alternative, then you might enjoy listening to The Futurists interview with Colin Megill, the inventor of Pol.is.

Pol.is is a mechanism for finding consensus on contentious issues. It works. It has been deployed in Asia and Europe to help find common ground amid fractious political debate. Pol.is is open source, which means anyone is free to download it and implement it.

Pol.is also low friction, which means that individual people can participate a lot or a little, as much as they like. That is very different from the kind polling that most political organizations use today. Most telephone polls take 45 minutes and are incredibly tedious, and some of them are push-polls, which means they are deviously designed to promote a particular outcome. Pol.is is designed as an alternative to telephone polling.

At the Futurists, we are interested in decentralized governance and the use of computer power to enhance democracy. If you are, too, then you might like to give this podcast a listen.

We had a great time talking to Colin. He's smart.

https://www.thefuturists.com/epis.../computational-democracy

03/10/2025

Our host Brett King did an amazing job representing the at the World Governments Summit - القمة العالمية للحكومات in Dubai last month. What an incredible privilege!

He talks about the world of #2050 with a vision that is both scary and compelling. Let us know what you think of the changes we will see between now and the second half of the century?

The Government Services Forum brings together senior leaders from the public and private sectors from around the world to engage in a dialogue on the future ...

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