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