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
Are We Posthuman? (with N. Katherine Hayles and...
68 min
2
God Is In the Machine (with Kevin Kelly and Nil...
100 min
3
Gamble on Anything. Except Murder. (with Bobby ...
76 min
4
There's No Such Thing as a Free Agent (with Gil...
67 min
5
We're Winning the Race to Replace Ourselves (wi...
51 min
6
Is It Awareness All the Way Down? (with Annaka ...
127 min
7
Can We Move Fast and Fix Things? (with Reid Hof...
64 min
8
The AI CEOs Are Terrified of Themselves (with S...
83 min
9
Our Machines Evolved From Us (with Blaise Agüer...
83 min
10
You Have Plenty to Hide From AI (with Meredith ...
50 min
11
On Love and Quantum Physics (with Carlo Rovelli...
74 min
12
We Need to Stop Panicking About AI (with Andrew...
77 min
13
What Exactly is Futurology? (with Nils Gilman &...
97 min
14
The Democratization of Violence (with Fareed Za...
61 min
15
We Were Promised a World Without Work… (with Ni...
65 min
16
Against the Tyranny of Certainty (with Elif Sha...
64 min
17
The Quantum Path to Consciousness (with Hartmut...
78 min
18
The Backlash Against the “Best and Brightest” (...
55 min
19
Augmenting Reality, Both Online and Off (with E...
71 min
20
Nothing Good Comes From This War (with Reza Asl...
75 min
21
Does Freedom Have a Future? (with Lea Ypi & Nil...
51 min
22
Could We Spotify-ify Healthcare? (with D.A. Wal...
103 min
23
How to Build a Consciousness Meter (with Christ...
83 min
24
Should We Use CRISPR to Steer Human Evolution? ...
98 min
25
Our Mind Meld with Machines Is Coming (with Max...
68 min