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