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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The Human Right to Tell Our Own Stories (with D...
78 min
27
Can 'Big Math' Solve for the Future? (with Tere...
64 min
28
Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (wit...
89 min
29
Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with B...
56 min
30
The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Th...
96 min
31
Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with...
56 min
32
The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial I...
65 min
33
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Alien...
76 min
34
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Gr...
99 min
35
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Fr...
68 min
36
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken L...
86 min
37
A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross An...
86 min
38
The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Amin...
41 min
39
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and N...
59 min
40
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (wi...
91 min
41
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with ...
44 min
42
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas B...
65 min
43
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan G...
58 min
44
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with...
80 min
45
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana ...
83 min
46
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thom...
57 min
47
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff ...
95 min
48
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (wit...
56 min
49
What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen ...
77 min
50
Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-...
58 min