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
The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Amin...
41 min
2
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and N...
59 min
3
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (wi...
91 min
4
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with ...
44 min
5
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas B...
65 min
6
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan G...
58 min
7
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with...
80 min
8
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana ...
83 min
9
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thom...
57 min
10
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff ...
95 min
11
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (wit...
56 min
12
What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen ...
77 min
13
Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-...
58 min
14
Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyo...
70 min
15
After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (w...
55 min
16
Welcome to Futurology | Podcast Trailer
1 min