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
Against the Tyranny of Certainty (with Elif Sha...
64 min
2
The Quantum Path to Consciousness (with Hartmut...
78 min
3
The Backlash Against the “Best and Brightest” (...
55 min
4
Augmenting Reality, Both Online and Off (with E...
71 min
5
Nothing Good Comes From This War (with Reza Asl...
75 min
6
Does Freedom Have a Future? (with Lea Ypi & Nil...
51 min
7
Could We Spotify-ify Healthcare? (with D.A. Wal...
103 min
8
How to Build a Consciousness Meter (with Christ...
83 min
9
Should We Use CRISPR to Steer Human Evolution? ...
98 min
10
Our Mind Meld with Machines Is Coming (with Max...
68 min
11
The Human Right to Tell Our Own Stories (with D...
78 min
12
Can 'Big Math' Solve for the Future? (with Tere...
64 min
13
Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (wit...
89 min
14
Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with B...
56 min
15
The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Th...
96 min
16
Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with...
56 min
17
The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial I...
65 min
18
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Alien...
76 min
19
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Gr...
99 min
20
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Fr...
68 min
21
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken L...
86 min
22
A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross An...
86 min
23
The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Amin...
41 min
24
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and N...
59 min
25
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (wi...
91 min