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
We Need to Stop Panicking About AI (with Andrew...
77 min
2
What Exactly is Futurology? (with Nils Gilman &...
97 min
3
The Democratization of Violence (with Fareed Za...
61 min
4
We Were Promised a World Without Work… (with Ni...
65 min
5
Against the Tyranny of Certainty (with Elif Sha...
64 min
6
The Quantum Path to Consciousness (with Hartmut...
78 min
7
The Backlash Against the “Best and Brightest” (...
55 min
8
Augmenting Reality, Both Online and Off (with E...
71 min
9
Nothing Good Comes From This War (with Reza Asl...
75 min
10
Does Freedom Have a Future? (with Lea Ypi & Nil...
51 min
11
Could We Spotify-ify Healthcare? (with D.A. Wal...
103 min
12
How to Build a Consciousness Meter (with Christ...
83 min
13
Should We Use CRISPR to Steer Human Evolution? ...
98 min
14
Our Mind Meld with Machines Is Coming (with Max...
68 min
15
The Human Right to Tell Our Own Stories (with D...
78 min
16
Can 'Big Math' Solve for the Future? (with Tere...
64 min
17
Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (wit...
89 min
18
Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with B...
56 min
19
The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Th...
96 min
20
Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with...
56 min
21
The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial I...
65 min
22
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Alien...
76 min
23
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Gr...
99 min
24
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Fr...
68 min
25
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken L...
86 min