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
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What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Alien...
76 min
27
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Gr...
99 min
28
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Fr...
68 min
29
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken L...
86 min
30
A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross An...
86 min
31
The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Amin...
41 min
32
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and N...
59 min
33
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (wi...
91 min
34
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with ...
44 min
35
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas B...
65 min
36
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan G...
58 min
37
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with...
80 min
38
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana ...
83 min
39
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thom...
57 min
40
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff ...
95 min
41
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (wit...
56 min
42
What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen ...
77 min
43
Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-...
58 min
44
Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyo...
70 min
45
After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (w...
55 min
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Welcome to Futurology | Podcast Trailer
1 min