Futurology

The future never arrives all at once. It ripples through society long before we know what to call it.


At the Berggruen Institute, we know that we need more than prediction to name what’s next; we need invention. Each week, Institute President Dawn Nakagawa introduces us to scientists and philosophers recalibrating our cosmologies, technologists coming to terms with alien intelligence, and policymakers scrambling to design systems for a world in flux. 


Join thinkers and doers from the Berggruen-verse as we imagine a future that we can accomplish together, instead of one that we’re all working to prevent.

Society & Culture
1
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Alien...
76 min
2
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Gr...
99 min
3
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Fr...
68 min
4
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken L...
86 min
5
A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross An...
86 min
6
The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Amin...
41 min
7
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and N...
59 min
8
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (wi...
91 min
9
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with ...
44 min
10
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas B...
65 min
11
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan G...
58 min
12
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with...
80 min
13
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana ...
83 min
14
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thom...
57 min
15
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff ...
95 min
16
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (wit...
56 min
17
What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen ...
77 min
18
Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-...
58 min
19
Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyo...
70 min
20
After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (w...
55 min
21
Welcome to Futurology | Podcast Trailer
1 min