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Digital Start-ups from Asia & “me and my shadows – innovating in emerging economies”
The Future Now Show March 2015. about Digital Startups from Asia: AliBaba, Flipkart, InMobi and beyond and“me and my shadows – innovating in emerging economies”… featuringMadanmohan Rao, Research Advisor, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, IndiaSimon Jones, Provost at Nazarbayev University, KazakhstanAnnegien Blokpoel, Founder & CEO, PerspeXo, the NetherlandsPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text This show takes a look at the boom in digital start-ups in Asia and how this might evolve. What do newly developed, or still underdeveloped, environments offer as benefits and hindrances for such endeavours and what sort of interaction is there with the older established western economies? With the very different environments of India and Kazakhstan as a backdrop for discussion, this program explores both the potential and the prerequisites for such developments. about “me and my shadows – innovating in emerging economies” In mature western economies the mention of innovation brings to mind corporate R&D labs or spin-outs from academic research environments. In emerging markets the foundations for this kind of innovation are often lacking or incomplete. So to nurture innovation what are the essential foundations you need to build and what might you do differently because you must or because you can? The discussion in this show covers ideas and phenomena from frugal innovation to ‘silicon bridges’. There is no magic formula, for sure, but there is enormous space for new approaches and perspectives, and no lack of inspiration. The Future Now ShowMarch 2015Credits ModeratorAnnegien Blokpoel, Founder & CEO, PerspeXo, the Netherlands Thought LeadersMadanmohan Rao, Research Advisor, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, IndiaSimon Jones, Provost at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Intro voicesFerananda Ibarra, VillageLab, MexicoGunvanthi Balaram, freelance writer, editor, translator, India andPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Water & Africa & about Collective Intelligence
The Future Now Show April 2015 about Water & Africaa contribution for COP21 ParisUN Climate Change Conference featuringJames M Dorsey, SingaporeKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USAPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text Clean water, like oil, is a critical resource over which wars are fought. But, unlike oil, it can be recycled and used again, under the right circumstances (and there’s the rub). This important distinction is often forgotten.The African continent ‘boasts’ the highest percentage of any global population without access to clean water. What does the future look like for this population, short-term and long-term (think climate change) in terms of access to water when the situation is already dire in so many parts of the continent and the status quo seems never to change? But maybe it is changing – economic growth is at least being seen and the US and China are focussing ever more attention there. Time to get out the divining rods… about Collective Intelligence featuringJerome C. Glenn, Co-founder, Director, The Millennium ProjectKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USAPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text Many believe that humanity is facing unparalleled crises, relating to resources, population, climate change, energy, environmental destruction, increasing inequality, proliferating weapons and more. We ape-men aren’t even remotely rising to the challenges.Meanwhile, accelerating technological development brings threats, benefits and, of interest here, new reasoning capabilities.In this show Jerome C. Glenn presents the idea of better understanding and responding to the above challenges with ‘collective intelligence’, a sort of global fusion of minds, data, and systems (part of The Millennium Project). Intriguing – a hive of bees exhibits intelligence beyond that of a single member. Can we do something similar with people plus software plus the Internet? (No, we aren’t talking hive-minds. Yet.)Let’s hope so – we need something to counteract the collective stupidity that our current global society exhibits. The Future Now ShowApril 2015Credits ModeratorKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USA Thought LeaderJames M Dorsey, SingaporeJerome C. Glenn, Co-founder, Director, The Millennium Project Intro voicesFerananda Ibarra, VillageLab, MexicoMathijs van Zutphen, the Netherlands andPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
The Future of Business
The Future Now Show June 2015 featuringGray Scott, Founder and CEO of SeriousWonder.com, USARohit Talwar, CEO, Fast Future Research, UKKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USA The Future of Businessfocuses on the critical forces, trends, developments and ideas that could reshape the commercial environment and hence the strategy and operations of business over the next two decades. See alsoLondon Dancing with Disruption:The Future of BusinessJune 23rd, 2015, 6.30pm – 9:30pmLocation:Osborne Clarke (Law firm of the year) – One London Wall, London, EC2Y 5EBA collaboration between Fast Future and the Club of Amsterdam book The Future of BusinessFast Future Publishing is launching a regular series of future focused books targeted at a business and generalist audience. The Future Now ShowJune 2015Credits ModeratorKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USA Thought LeaderGray Scott, Founder and CEO of SeriousWonder.com, USARohit Talwar, CEO, Fast Future Research, UK Intro voicesMathijs van Zutphen, the Netherlands
COP21
The Future Now Show A contribution for COP21 Paris – UN Climate Change Conference featuringElisabet Sahtouris, Evolution biologist, Futurist, Hawaii, USALise Voldeng, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Ultra-Agent Industries Inc., USA / Canada Climate change is arguably the biggest problem of our age – the changes it brings will be immense and potentially catastrophic. This show asks how we might adapt. It looks at the obstacles, from corporate greed to complicit media and the ignorance and apathy they engender and it looks at the structure of our globalised world and where change should occur, from the problem with the nation state to the need for local solutions. Woven in to this is an observation brought in from evolutionary biology that the history of our planet shows repeated cycles of intense, and innovative, competition, then, when this starts to cost too much, cooperation. Is our current globalised, capitalist world the peak of a competitive phase and is global cooperation, on all levels, an essential next evolutionary step? The Future Now ShowCredits Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolution biologist, Futurist, Hawaii, USALise Voldeng, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Ultra-Agent Industries Inc., USA / Canada Intro voiceJack Gallagher, contemporary dance:performer/choreographer, Bodies AnonymousandPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Simple no longer works
The Future Now Show July 2015 featuringAndreas M. Walker, weiterdenken.ch, Co-President, swissfuture Intro voice, SwitzerlandPeter Cochrane, Co-Founder, Chairman & Director, Cochrane Associates. UKKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USAPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text Not youth but age is our futureThis show discusses a future that is very much happening already – the ageing of societies in developed nations. The huge increase in the ratio of the old to the young is making our current economic and social systems unworkable. And yet there is little sign that we are adapting our societies as we surely must to manage this demographic shift. The rise of the robots arguably poses similar threats and yet could offer solutions too. But we are still left with great challenges, from the way we build our physical world to the nature of our economic and legal systems to our perception of what a life is and should be. Simple no longer worksThe sum total of human knowledge continues to increase, as does the complexity of the world we build for ourselves. And the increase is exponential, further enhanced by the global interconnectedness of everything. This show is not about the utopian or dystopian futures that might result, it is not about life beyond the singularity, it is about how this is affecting us now and how we deal with it now. If humans are not built to deal with such a complex and rapidly evolving world will the increasingly intelligent and flexible systems we build constitute the toolkit we need to adapt? How would this redefine the role of people and are societies ready to accept and adjust to this? The Future Now ShowCredits Andreas M. Walker, weiterdenken.ch, Co-President, swissfuture Intro voice, SwitzerlandPeter Cochrane, Co-Founder, Chairman & Director, Cochrane Associates. UKKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USA Intro voiceJack Gallagher, contemporary dance:performer/choreographer, Bodies AnonymousFerananda Ibarra, VillageLab, MexicoandPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Consciousness Hacking – Part 1
The Future Now Show September 2015 featuringMikey Siegel, Founder, Consciousness Hacker, USAKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USAPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text Many, maybe most, people invest significant time on spiritual pursuits, from traditional religion to meditative or other altered states through yoga, tai chi and the like. Even holiday adventures or climbing mountains have an element of this. Why? Arguably because it simply makes us feel better. But suppose we could use the latest technology and scientific knowledge to hack directly into our consciousness and tweak it to achieve contentment or a desired spiritual experience? This show tells us of a group of people with diverse skills, all joined in a quest for new ways of achieving this old and primal goal. If technology can help more people get there, how might the world change? The Future Now ShowCredits Mikey Siegel, Founder, Consciousness Hacker, USAKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USA Intro voiceMathijs van Zutphen, Owner at Ad ValorumandPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Consciousness Hacking – Part 2
The Future Now Show November 2015 featuringNichol Bradford, Co-Founder & CEO, The Willow Group, USAKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USAPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text The Future Now ShowCredits Nichol Bradford, Co-Founder & CEO, The Willow Group, USAKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USA Intro voiceJack Gallagher, Dancer, Choreograph, Bodies AnonymousandPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text
Artificial Intelligence & Business
The Future Now Show January 2016 featuringNikola Danaylov aka “Socrates”, Author, Singularity Weblog, CanadaKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USAPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text With the likes of Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates warning about the potential dangers of AI it seems a good time to ask what we might do to make the future safer, or what we might inadvertently do to increase those dangers. With business increasingly a major driver of AI development should we worry that the pursuit of short-term gain will push out caution and ethical concerns? With computers increasingly intermeshed with our lives, and critical for our societies, maybe we should try to answer such questions before we instill our machines with independent spirit and perhaps wake up to find they aren’t our machines any more. The Future Now ShowCredits Nikola Danaylov aka “Socrates”, Author, Singularity Weblog, CanadaKatie Aquino, aka “Miss Metaverse”, Futurista™, USA Intro voiceFerananda Ibarra, VillageLab, MexicoandPaul Holister, Editor, Summary Text