Futurized - thought leadership on the future

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Florian Jehn, Data Science Leader at ALLFED. They discuss how present-day efforts to stay within planetary boundaries affect the survivors of an all-out nuclear war? This is part of Futurized's focus on the takeaways from the third annual Stanford Existential Risks Conference and the collection of papers now issued as conference Proceedings. 

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Dan Zimmer, Affiliate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI). They discuss takeaways from the third annual Stanford Existential Risks Conference and the collection of papers now issued as conference Proceedings. 

The past two decades have seen anthropogenic global cata...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Daniel Theobald, Founder of Vecna and MassRobotics. They discuss the future of robotic AI, the major use cases in factories, logistics, and elsewhere, the impact of generative AI, and how technology's impact often is overestimated short term and underestimated long term. Daniel has clear opinions on the anthromorphizing of robots and AI.

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews philosopher Emile Torres. They discuss the current controversies surrounding existential risk, including whether we should prioritize safeguarding the very long term over contemporary challenges.  

Emile's newest book, Human Extinction: A history of the science and ethics of annihilation came out on Routledge this fall.  For more about Emile, see http://w...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Mark Jackson, Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum. They discuss the near future of quantum computing including its near term use cases in batteries, medicine, and cryptography, and its potential impact on computing and society in the future. 

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews John Fullerton, President and Founder of the Capital Institute. They discuss the future of finance, specifically the arduous road to regenerative capitalism, including the principles, patterns, and timelines that might get us there.  

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dyn...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Tiffany Vora. They discuss the multi-career normal, learning, exploration, what the world will look and feel like in the distant tomorrow, synthetic biology, and the value of experiencing nature.

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim introduces his new board game End of The World 2075, which is now on Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yegii/end-of-the-world-2075. End of the World 2075 is a deeply engaging game of strategy where you are trying to save humanity while growing your power and influence in the world.  Developed by futurist Trond Undheim, PhD, at Yegii, Inc., the ga...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Taimur Ahmad, a Stanford graduate student focusing on policy and energy systems, and author of the Fictitious Capital newsletter. They discuss how the global paradigm of continuous progress and development is under threat and faces multiple, vastly misunderstood risks. Concurrently, there is heightened political polarization and a breakdown in constructive...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jonathon Porritt, author, Co-founder, Forum of the Future. They discuss how the sciences say everything is getting worse everywhere, yet there is still time, perhaps a decade, where key actions can get done if we all come together.  

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dyna...

In this episode of Futurized, we interview Anastasios Arima, CEO & co-founder, IperionX. We discuss the challenge of bringing down the cost and environmental impact of titanium in the industrial supply chain, using novel technology that might be able to replace or suppleant the Kroll process dominant today. Advanced materials are not typically manufactured in the US for various reasons, including environmental impact of current met...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Mike Hulme, Professor, U Cambridge, on how climate visions get constructed. They explore the methods, data, and scenarios underlying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prof. Hulme just published the book, Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, we interview Jamin Warren, Founder, Twofivesix. We discuss the evolution of the role of gaming in branding, current examples/successes, and the relevance for industry, governments, and consumers.

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Graham Hill, CEO of The Carbonauts on The Changing Environmental Movement. They discuss  activism before/now, behavior change, and what does it take to make an impact?

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Bruce Usher, Author and Professor at Columbia Business School about Investing in the Era of Climate Change, which is the subject of Bruce's most recent book. They discuss the variety of available investment options, how the field is going, and the future investment outlook. 

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, we interview Erinch Sahan, Business & Enterprise Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab. We discuss what doughnut economics is, how it is being put into action, the tools being developed in this regard, and examples of organizations that use this framework. 

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, we interview Claude Letourneau, CEO of Canadian scale-up company Svante about carbon removal challenges, the different technical approaches, who the players, startups, corporates, governments, and enablers are. 

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.

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In this episode of the Futurized podcast, our guest is Ted Shepherd, Professor, University of Reading, UK. We discuss climate storylines, a physically self-consistent unfolding of past events or of plausible future events or pathways. This is a relatively new method in climate science and diverges from the main approach taken by the UN climate panel. 

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in...

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, we feature Trond Arne Undheim, Ph.D, Research Scholar in Global Systemic Risk, Innovation, and Policy at the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI), Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University about his work with the Stanford Cascading Risk Study.

• Stanford Cascading Risk Study project website and eligibility information: https://riskstudy2075.stan...