269 Episodes

  1. Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

    Published: 2/8/2022
  2. David Rooney: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

    Published: 12/23/2021
  3. Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations

    Published: 9/23/2021
  4. Nathaniel Rich, Ben Novak, & Ryan Phelan: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

    Published: 8/20/2021
  5. Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050

    Published: 2/23/2021
  6. Jason Tester: Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All

    Published: 2/3/2021
  7. James Nestor: The Future of Breathing

    Published: 12/22/2020
  8. Nadia Eghbal: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure

    Published: 12/10/2020
  9. Roman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor

    Published: 11/18/2020
  10. Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism

    Published: 10/6/2020
  11. Genevieve Bell: The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI

    Published: 8/28/2020
  12. Craig Childs: Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America

    Published: 8/17/2020
  13. Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet

    Published: 8/6/2020
  14. Lonny J Avi Brooks: When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures

    Published: 7/27/2020
  15. Brian Fisher: Edible Insects

    Published: 7/15/2020
  16. Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

    Published: 6/23/2020
  17. Rick Doblin: Transformational Psychedelics

    Published: 6/11/2020
  18. Eric Ries: Long-Term Stock Exchange

    Published: 3/3/2020
  19. Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World

    Published: 1/29/2020
  20. Andrew McAfee: More From Less

    Published: 12/2/2019

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