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