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
Should We Use CRISPR to Steer Human Evolution? ...
98 min
2
Our Mind Meld with Machines Is Coming (with Max...
68 min
3
The Human Right to Tell Our Own Stories (with D...
78 min
4
Can 'Big Math' Solve for the Future? (with Tere...
64 min
5
Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (wit...
89 min
6
Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with B...
56 min
7
The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Th...
96 min
8
Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with...
56 min
9
The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial I...
65 min
10
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Alien...
76 min
11
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Gr...
99 min
12
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Fr...
68 min
13
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken L...
86 min
14
A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross An...
86 min
15
The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Amin...
41 min
16
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and N...
59 min
17
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (wi...
91 min
18
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with ...
44 min
19
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas B...
65 min
20
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan G...
58 min
21
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with...
80 min
22
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana ...
83 min
23
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thom...
57 min
24
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff ...
95 min
25
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (wit...
56 min