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